“A little bit later, of course, you had Kraftwerk. I know it’s a bit of a cliché to talk about Kraftwerk, but without them, ...

You don’t have to doom-scroll for too long to thumb across it. A pale, wiry figure jerks his shoulders, taking hard drags from a cigarette in a beater and light-washed jeans, bathed in bruised light.

British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known for his work in the iconic synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died ...

We love a heavy rock song as much as anyone else, but no one can deny the enticing pull of a soft rock hit every now and then. In the ’70s, rockers began to experiment with pop sensibilities. The end ...

It was the era of free love and flower power. It was the 1960s in America and folk music, sit-ins, bell-bottoms, long hair and two-finger peace signs were all the rage. In the decade prior, Elvis ...

One half of the influential synth-pop duo, Ball was a techno pioneer and “wonderfully brilliant musical genius,” says his bandmate Marc Almond ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...