The full lineup for the 2026 Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series will be released in mid-April — but here's a start.

Three popular artists from the 1980s synth-pop era are joining forces for a rare North American run in summer 2026. The Human League will headline their first full U.S. tour since 2011 with Soft Cell ...

The debut solo album from one-half of British experimental pop duo Let’s Eat Grandma goes heavy on the synthesizers and the ...

“We’d come out of the end of The Tourists battered and bruised,” Lennox explained. (The Tourists was the group Lennox and Dave Stewart were in before they formed Eurythmics.) “We were massively in ...

Back in 1981, “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League was an insanely big hit. It’s not an overly complex song, either. Martin Rushent, who produced the song, added a drum machine, a very basic synth, ...

David Ball, who made up half of innovative English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66 years old. Ball died peacefully in his sleep at his London home on Tuesday night, Oct. 22, his bandmate ...

Howard Jones has always been at the cusp of innovation. Whether it be the new wave sound he brought to the United States in the 1980s, his high-tech set-ups, or his measured interest in the ...

Austin-based synth-pop ​indie-rock band Pretty Something, the latest project from artist and producer Joe Durniak, ​is ...

British synth-pop, was a sub-genre of New Wave music that first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Queer bands like The Communards, Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure embraced the sound and helped ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

When Austin McKee photographed Lucia Luna performing onstage at a Courtney Love drag night in 2018, he was struck by their voice instantly, but it wasn’t until they kept running into each other at ...

There are so many times where OMD could’ve just put it on cruise control and coasted into the golden sunset of history with their laurels. First, their spots in the pantheons of electronic and ...