Dave Ball, Soft Cell's influential member, has died at 66, leaving a legacy of synth-pop hits and a love for 80s club culture ...

Boasting a towering body of work in the synthpop world, we select ten of Soft Cell's standout numbers. Read more about our ...

Soft rock songs can’t rock hard, can they? I mean, the name says they can’t. But if soft rock has taught us anything, it’s that you don’t always need volume to be impactful. Rock’s lighter side often ...

Few country rock tunes have stood the test of time quite like America’s 1972 hit song, “A Horse With No Name”. I can only imagine what it was like to drive down the highway somewhere in the great ...

Music has been at the forefront of my mind these last couple of weeks, and especially on Thursday when we heard the tragic news of the passing of David Ball, synthesiser pioneer and star of Soft Cell, ...

The Soft Cell story is one of wild, hedonistic success. Here, Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all – about controversial ...

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LL Cool J earned a 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame nomination, honoring his trailblazing Hip-Hop legacy alongside Taylor Swift, ...

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The original members of KISS reunited one last time to bid farewell to guitarist Ace Frehley, who was laid to rest in the ...

Another band she’s been a big fan of for a couple of years now is The Living Tombstone. When she saw that they were playing ...

"Life on the Other Planet" revisits Boston's rock scene of the '70s and '80s through interlocking vignettes of the bands that ...