Photo via Lotus' Facebook page Lotus closed 2025 with a headlining show at Buffalo, NY's Town Ballroom. Partway through their ...

It’s been a year for Americana in the city. Hopkins’s big voice soars over a vintage alt-country sound. FFO Sharon Van Etten / First Aid Kit / PJ Harvey / The Last Dinner Party / Big Thief. A noisy ...

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players ...

The sounds of Matthew Ryals’ modular synthesizer are never too riling. In fact, the sequences heard in his nine-part series labeled “Generative Etudes” revolve through states of playfulness, ...

The thriving shop and community space will host a series of in-store performances Dec. 8 to mark its anniversary. Walking down 24th Street, pedestrians often stop and peer into Mission Synths to try ...

The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great ...

The synth is described as an “idea machine” which aims to answer the question: “How deep does the rabbit hole go?” Moog has announced the release of a new semi-modular synth, Labyrinth. Labyrinth is ...

We've brought together six new desktop tools for shaping audio, from classic synthesizers to fresh takes on the drum machine, ambient drone generators and a granular synthesis powerhouse. The ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: For any eurorack modular aficionado out there, ambient music will most likely be on your radar, even if it’s an area you haven’t dabbled in. But what does ambient mean and how do you ...

Earlier this year, Arushi Jain followed up her critically acclaimed debut 2021 album Under the Lilac Sky with a sublime new project, Delight, featuring nine new offerings of her modular-centric, ...

I’ve been a fan of abstract electronic music for decades, but I generally associate the genre with late-night radio, art spaces, or off nights at music clubs. In early November, a close friend, dub ...

Synths don’t need to be complex things. Classic instruments such as Roland’s Juno-6 or SH-101, or even the Minimoog Model D, are all fairly straightforward instruments, comprised of a simple ...