Parisian Chanteuse Lou Rebecca Is the Complete Pop Package

Personas, dance, fashion, and Holodeck-ian synth transform into the electro crooner

"...Once the couple landed locally, Rebecca began crafting gauzy synth-pop alongside former collaborator Eli Welbourne. Initial EP recorded and..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

ACL Live Shot: Icona Pop

Young Swedes deplane the hype machine?

Oct. 12, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

SXSW Music: Must-See Pop

Power-pop, French pop, mellow pop, electro pop – so many pops to choose from!

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Felt Out Follows Their Shape-Shifting Pop Intuition

A rename and shared chemistry propel the Austin duo's new album

"...to the pair's equally ambient and danceable take on synth-pop. Their second album, Until I'm Light, arrived April 14..."

April 28, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Pop Oddity Caroline Rose Explores Ambition's Seedy Underbelly

Her first Austin album follows a character moving to L.A.

"...That begins an odyssey of inspirational choruses and bouyant synth-pop...."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Electro-Pop Pioneers New Order’s “Blue Monday” Kicks Off SXSW Music

ACL Live show brought in former clubgoers and curious newbies alike

"...the band’s reputation as one of the parents of synth-pop...."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Michael Toland

Pelvis Wrestley’s High-Concept Pop Mythology

Bandleader Jammy Violet embraces queer world-building on sophomore LP

Feb. 9, 2024 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Priority Pop at SXSW Music

If you've gotta pick and choose, you can't go wrong with these 11 breakouts

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Stranger Things Blasts Local Synth Quartet Survive Into Orbit

Scoring the Netflix summer hit

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

American Power Pop II

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Kent H. Benjamin

Faster Than Sound: Pop Goes the Arts District

Fight over an empty lot near Riverside Drive intensifies, Xetas’ Kana Harris will open Bluebonnet Records in Lockhart, and Why Bonnie get a peachy opening gig

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Dream Pop

Four acts for the sleepy set

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Hip-Hop to Pop-Punk, Yung Mijita Knows Her Audience

Austin DJ chats following mosh-along This Is Austin, Not That Great set

March 6, 2023 Music Post by Katie Karp

Viral Bedroom-Pop Sensation Dayglow Grows Up

Sloan Struble, 21, turns 35. He'll explain.

May 21, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

Miami Connection

This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

“After Dark” Singer Mr. Kitty Exchanged Explicit Messages with Underage Fan

Russian teen's claims go beyond artist's admission to fans

"...A teenager in Russia tells the Chronicle that synth-pop artist Mr. Kitty sent him nude photos, graphic sexual..."

July 8, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

This Is Electroclash

Eighties retro-synth bands like the Faint, Fischerspooner, and Austin's This Microwave World prove that the best way to move forward is to look back first.

"...as Sub Pop, which houses the Postal Service, a synth-pop side project of Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard...."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

Parisian songstress specializes in openly romantic and discotheque-ready pop

"...Poly-800 and Volca Beats fixtures. Her rebirth as a synth-pop songstress solidified with producer Eli Welbourne when their alluring..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Showcase: Depeche Mode

Synthesizers will christen Austin’s new Brazos Hall

March 8, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Preview: Holodeck Records Rescores Egyptian Creation Myth at AFS Cinema

Synth whisperers soundtrack Ra: Path of the Sun God

"...Dr. Geraldine Pinch. Amber Goers of dark, gritty, ATX synth-pop trio Troller re-narrates...."

March 11, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Wheezing Spools: Cassettes in Electronic Music – Part II

A half-dozen tape bombardments that hardly toe the line

"...has since become a cult classic amongst industrial and synth-pop pundits, its latest reissue arrives on Medical Records. Think..."

July 23, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Faster Than Sound – Welcome to Red River World: The Future of Austin’s Music District

Forecasting the storm of developments between the state Capitol and I-35. Also, NPR warned and ACL Fest confirms: Austin’s pop soloists are stepping up.

"...Outside of her effervescent synth-pop, emitting a Carly Rae Jepsen level of shine on..."

May 24, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Luna Luna Moves From Dallas Origins to Riverside Headquarters to ACL Fest Debut

Indie-pop quartet makes “Commitment" to very-much-online Latinx audiences

"...would eventually become the bulk of the project’s shimmery, synth-pop-inspired debut, For Lovers Only. As area interest in the..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

I’m Not Okay: LA’s Weathers Discuss Mental Health and Writing Music During COVID

An interview with the soundtrackers of millennial burnout

"...awareness in their sophomore album, Pillows & Therapy, a synth-pop effort brimming with millennial burnout...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Post by Clara Wang

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interview: Sparks

A two-man show promises to get bigger and better

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

Watch: Kady Rain’s Barbies Come to Life in “Lovestruck”

Plastic lovers cruise to a drive-in concert in pink convertible

"...Rain’s friend Cole Burris of local synth-pop trio Goons honed his stop-motion animation skills and offered..."

Feb. 8, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: School’s Out for Dayglow

Nineteen-year-old Sloan Struble leaves UT for the bedroom-pop big leagues, while two new area record stores make their debuts

"...Coin. Seems Struble has stumbled into the arena of synth-pop boy bands and floppy-haired solo acts. Like a musical..."

June 21, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Psych Fest Interview: Automatic

Los Angeles trio infuses noise-pop with biting social commentary

"...the crushing reality of our dying planet with melodic synth-pop? So believes Los Angeles trio Automatic, whose last album..."

April 21, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Review: TC Superstar, As Seen on TV

Toxic media consumption and deflated millennial aspirations inform synth-pop troupe’s third LP

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Now Streaming in Austin: Sleep No More

Sleep No More brings back Eighties’ Pop and popcorn

"...the era of peak cinematic weird science, and a synth-pop score to die for. Guzman heaps all the praise..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

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