The 1980s were heady times for synthesizers and drum machines. Ushering out the distorted three-chord guitars and traditional ...

When the British new wave band Thompson Twins unplugged its synths for the last time in 1997, singer Tom Bailey didn’t look back for nearly three decades. “Someone told me I didn’t play a Thompson ...

American people of a certain age will almost all recognize the song, “Lies” by The Thompson Twins. If you were alive in 1983 and listening to music, you heard it. It was popular and, coming out at the ...

People who dig 1980s music are often divided into two groups: those that lived through the period and are feeling nostalgic, and those who missed it the first time around and want to experience it for ...