Is there such a thing as the “Whole Lotta Love” of synth riffs? Something akin to “Smoke On The Water”, “Iron Man”, or “Back In Black”? Some of you might put the very premise in the category of ...

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 ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

Some 1970s rock giants lost their way in the '80s – these 12, though, reinvented themselves and thrived in bold new ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

Chris Martirano was just 14 when he walked into a White Plains, N.Y., music shop 35 years ago. By the time he left three hours later, his life had changed. He played his first Moog synthesizer. "I ...

The full lineup for the 2026 Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series will be released in mid-April — but here's a start.

The sound of pop music in the '80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the most impactful people behind that sound was inventor Dave Smith, creator of the Prophet-5 synthesizer and founder of ...