Sounds from the 1980s appear in modern pop songs all the time. Everyone from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift has made hits with the vintage synths and drum machines that defined the neon decade. Chasing ...

The 1980s were an incredibly polarizing time for music fans, thanks in no small part to the vast differences in popular genres, which ranged from heavy metal to synth-pop to hip-hop. Frankly, in the ...

Here's why Genesis abandoned prog rock for pop in the 1980s! Progressive rock was huge throughout the 1970s, but as the music industry and the pubic gradually leaned into synth-pop, art pop and new ...