Critics say this is the defining Depeche Mode album.

Synth pop isn’t dead yet (and we hope it never will be), but its heyday was definitely in the 1980s. Luckily, there is a slew of bands and producers from that decade who created countless synth pop ...

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 ...

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 ...