From the far end of the long tail comes B.I.P.P.P.: French Synthwave 1979-1985, a compilation of "lost synthwave gems" from early 80s pre-New Wave French recording artists who fashioned cold pop ...

Synthwave, more than almost any other subgenre in recent memory – yes, that includes you, rockabilly – is immutably rooted in a specific sense of aesthetic place and time. A neon color palette, a ...

Daine Cox just wants to see the musical artists he loves play live. So when he discovered that many of his favorite synthwave acts were just recently breaking into touring and doing live shows, he was ...

The slate of new artists in the dark synthwave world has been pretty bleak of late, save for last year’s genre-defining debut by Deadlife. Such is the problem with a retro-based genre that mines ...

Synthwave has gotten so dark and heavy of late that it’s become easy to forget about the genre’s lighter, poppier, more fun side. Opus Science Collective is here to remind us that it’s not all about ...

In our quest to uncover the next big musical act, we stumbled upon Bengaluru’s own Synthwave sensation. Tron 1982 is poised to transport listeners on an auditory time capsule For many 90s kids, one ...