Earlier this year, I wrote about the wave of dubstep metal that is ruining everything. That might have led some readers to believe that I’m fundamentally against the idea of mixing synthesizers and ...

Superbooth 25: Our only problem with the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave - a stunning evolution of the classic Waldorf PPG Wave wavetable synths from the ‘80s - was that we couldn’t really afford it. This ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the Song, UK-based singer-songwriter Howard Jones reveals how he broke all the rules when he arrived as a one-man band and topped the charts with “New Song.” As ...

On a typical Wednesday night, Ian Thurston twists knobs and punches buttons on a big mixing board at the casino where he runs sound for onstage talent. But tonight at Pacific Pizza in Browne's ...

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 ...

Original synth fans will likely appreciate that the app recreates the Wavestation’s memorable joystick to emulate changing the synth’s multiple oscillators. Korg says the sounds and actual ...

Southeast Morrison’s Holocene is easily one of the best places in Portland for music that feels like Capital-A “Art.” Artists like Chicago’s greatest unsung avant-garde pioneer Olivia Block, former ...

Something Cold was started by longtime Detroiter Justin Carver in 2009, later to be joined by Dan in 2013, as “a roving social club and record label celebrating the underground realm of minimal-synth, ...

The development team at SonicWave based in Tokyo Japan have created a new 8bit wave memory synthesizer aptly named the LIVEN 8bit warps which is equipped with four synth engines including 8bit FM. As ...