Step back into the 1980s, the decade that defined music, culture, and style with a sound that everyone still loves today.

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Dave Smith, an engineer who helped create the Prophet-5 synthesizer, which became a staple of 1980s pop music, as well as the MIDI electronic system that allowed drum machines, keyboards, sequencers — ...

YOU’VE PROBABLY never heard of the Jupiter-8, JX-3P and Juno-106, but if you listened to the radio at any point in the ’80s, you’re familiar with their sound. These analog synthesizers appear on ...

As demonstrated by their placements on the Billboard 200, every 1980s Genesis album did better commercially than all of the ...

Three hits songs from the 1980s that don't feature synthesizers, gated reverb, or any other musical fads of the decade.

You see a song title like “1980s Horror Film” and you probably expect icy John Carpenter synthesizers. Wallows don’t care about what you expect. The young LA trio — made up of drummer Cole Preston and ...

Can a certain sound, made by a particular instrument, sum up an entire era? It seems unlikely, yet think about those opening notes of Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" from "Beverly Hills Cop" or Brad ...