Music in the 1980s was defined by electronic melodies that gave the decade a distinct flair that is often replicated, yet unmatched. With artists from all over the world contributing to the sound of ...

Can a certain sound, made by a particular instrument, sum up an entire era? It seems unlikely, yet think about those opening notes of Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" from "Beverly Hills Cop" or Brad ...

'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

If the grandeur of disco reigned supreme in the '70s, the following decade belonged to the homespun productions of rogue DJs. "In the '80s, you got the introduction of relatively affordable ...

When most people think of late 2000s and early 2010s chillwave and synthwave music, one often thinks of artists like Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian. If you were a young adult (like me) at the ...

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Douglas McCarthy, the frontman for electronic body music group Nitzer Ebb, has died. He was 58. McCarthy died Wednesday, according to an Instagram post by Nitzer Ebb. No cause of death was revealed.