If you’ve ever really dug on the sounds of the ’80s — on the curious dalliances between analog and digital, on New Wave and punk playing nice with road-tested songcraft and hooks for days — then you ...

It is widely accepted that older is better when it comes to synthesizers. Keyboardist Ted Ottaviano, for instance, swears by the vintage synths he and his bandmates have used since the mid-’80s. “We ...