Beneath the platinum largesse, the ’90s were an ethical turning point for the pop music business. This was the decade where capital-A Authenticity became one of pop’s biggest artistic crises, a long-simmering culmination of the arguments around the distorting tropes of MTV, the legal and artistic arguments around sampling, an...

Back in June, the great synth-pop duo Erasure announced a new album called The Neon. The name seemed strikingly appropriate for any '80s synth-pop act, but especially here: Their 18th album finds Vince Clarke building up many of the songs from his oldest synths, and the songs we've heard so far have had a bit…

Since 1985, Yaz/early Depeche Mode mastermind Vince Clarke been one half of the great synthpop duo Erasure alongside singer Andy Bell. Next month, they're coming back with their 18th studio album, The Neon, and opening track and lead single "Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling)" sounded like classic Erasure. New song "Shot A Satellite,"

Taylor Swift spoke at Pride Live's third annual Stonewall Day, commemorating the anniversary of the 1969 uprising in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Although this year's celebration was a virtual one, Swift came on the livestream to speak to fans about the day's significance.

Erasure, the OG synthpop duo of Andy Bell and Yaz/Depeche Mode's Vince Clarke, have announced their 18th studio album. The Neon, the follow-up to 2017's World Be Gone, will be out in August. "It was about refreshing my love -- hopefully our love -- of great pop," says Bell. And today, they've shared the LP's…