Kid Harpoon’s genre-hopping experimentation has risen to become the sound of modern pop. While an artist in his own right since 2009, it’s Harpoon's collaborative work, co-creating critically ...

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On their third LP, Hallucinating Love, Maribou State return with a revitalized sound after battling mental health issues ...

Dave Ball, a producer and half of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, whose 1981 single “Tainted Love” became one of the ...

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to ...

Dave Ball, the man who helped shape 1980s synth-pop, is dead at age 66. The English musician, cofounder of pop duo Soft Cell ...

Ball’s death came after Soft Cell played for more than 20,000 fans while headlining Rewind Festival in Henley-on-Thames in ...

He hears it first in the hi-hats — nervous, glittering, a little too confident for their own good. Then the chorus arrives ...

Soft Cell star Dave Ball, praised as a “wonderfully brilliant musical genius” by his bandmate Marc Almond, has died aged 66.

Magnetic Skies return to Birmingham on Wednesday, November 5, headlining The Victoria as part of their UK tour in support of ...

Synth-pop icons Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and Scottish legends Deacon Blue are set to headline Lincoln Castle ...