These somewhat forgotten albums from the 1970s sound surprisingly modern nowadays. Some bands were just ahead of their time.

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Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter met while studying piano and flute at university in Germany. Before too long, they'd redrawn the entire outline... It has become a cliché to compare Kraftwerk to the ...

The musician who helped define a groundbreaking electronic sound and embraced the nickname 'The Robot' celebrates his 79th ...

Over a decade on from exploding into the public consciousness with a performance for the ages, Future Islands reflect and ...

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, Midge Ure regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – ...

The Alan Parsons Project had its biggest hit with Eye in the Sky (1982) and its catchy but haunting title track. Did you know that they released five other albums before that? Most notably, the first ...

Dolby headlines the Totally Tubular Festival on a lineup that includes A Flock of Seagulls and Bow Wow Wow on the same night ...

It was an apocalyptic 39°C as Madrid’s Mad Cool festival kicked off its tenth anniversary celebrations last week, and the ...

Over the years, it has hosted ballroom dancing, a roller rink, disco and boxing matches. In 1973, Aragon most significantly ...

To mark his 70th birthday, we take a look at the five songs that shaped Ian Curtis' road to Joy Division from young teen ...