Synthesizers are so ubiquitous in popular music that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t around. The first commercial synthesizer did not exist until 1964, when Robert Moog (pronounced MOHG) ...

The truth is that synth-pop can be many things. Sure, it must be synth-driven, and the era begins in the late 1970s, but the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Synth-Funk band Midnight Star will perform as the headlining band for the annual Syracuse JAMS FunkFest in September at the 2022 Great New York State Fair. The band will end a day of ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

In 2018, Hall met Yanowitz while working on Hedwig. Yanowitz was the founding drummer of The Wallflowers, helped launch former 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant’s solo career, and co-founded the ...

Armed with synthesizers and inspired by a dedicated teacher, visually impaired students come together to make music—and play an electrifying show. The kids were exhausted before rehearsal even began.

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired instructor Dan Butler teaches his students how to make groovy tunes.

Robert Moog, who died Sunday at 71, was an electronics tinker who invented and named the Moog synthesizer, the touchstone for a revolution in sound production that has reached every corner of music.

Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...