If you’re starting to get into electronic music or need a bit of inspiration for your own music, these four synth-pop records are a few of the most memorable in the genre. And they’re still fun to ...

The Moog synthesizer on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Save The Life Of My Child” sounds like an alien invasion. A psychedelic intrusion on a 1968 folk tune. Two years later, Keith Emerson recorded his iconic ...

The way Brett Naucke sees it, synthesizers and chili are a natural fit. “Synths in general can do what you want, and that’s the whole point of them,” he says. “It’s like, I want these components and ...

This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its ...

We’re pretty sure there’s no internationally recognized arbiter of records like “World’s smallest full-featured polyphonic stereo MIDI synthesizer that fits in a DIN shell”. If there isn’t, there sure ...

Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary has built a nice relationship with Leo Records over the last few years, having recorded for the label with Mat Maneri, Matthew Shipp, Eyvind Kang, Uri Caine, Steve Swallow ...

Jack White has been know to go all out for Record Store Day events with his Third Man Records imprint. This year, in addition to transferring Elvis' first recording from acetate to vinyl for release ...

Zak Kiernan is a fan of adventure game Mice and Mystics, which inspired the name of his comfy-synth project, Derbyshire. Credit: Photo by Wulfka Zak Kiernan, 37, moved to Chicago in 2012 and has ...

The sequel to Xfer Records' wildly popular synth plugin has finally been released after more than a decade of anticipation, bringing new synth engines, effects, a clip sequencer, built-in arpeggiator ...

Yesterday, Bay Area residents flocked to San Francisco's famous Haight-Ashbury to witness Foster the People play a short yet ecstatic performance at Amoeba Records. The SoCal trio became a five-piece ...