What started out in 2016 as a small group of modular-synth geeks playing their wonky electronic instruments for fellow geeks in Gas Works Park blossomed into the first Velocity festival in October ...

Retrofette, a synth-pop quartet from Denver, is hoping to send ripples through the local music scene with its new monthly dance night at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, called Nightwaves. Retrofette ...

New Wave is back. Synth Pop is poised for a comeback. All you need is a hardware synth, a control surface, a software plug-in, an audio interface, a MIDI interface and a — wait, what’s that? You’re ...

Being able to predict the future is valuable. Jay Jernigan and Jimi Bowman have the kind of synthesizer collection aficionados like Vincent Gallo or Ryan Gosling could afford. But with most of their ...

Empress Effects ZOIA is perhaps one of the most exciting guitar pedals to come out in recent years. It's effectively a self-contained modular synth in a stompbox format. So, it only makes sense then ...

The Roland Cloud is looking brighter with their latest addition announced today, a series of Model Expansions beginning with the JX-8P Model Expansion. Upcoming releases will include SH-101, JUNO-106, ...

We regularly stand in awe of just how involved Lance Higdon is in the general Houston music scene. His industriousness might not be as well-recognized as that of Robert Ellis or Geoffrey Mueller, but ...

Today, synth-pop star Ms. Henrik drops his new single "Like Lovers Do" via Birds Records. A single shamelessly soaked in '80s and '90s influences like New Order, Gary Numan and a few shades of Bowie ...