Forty-four years ago, beloved new-wave rock band Modern English released "I Melt with You"—a song that only took 10 minutes ...

New wave got its start in the late '70s with flinty records by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Joe Jackson, then was refined into the new decade by forward-thinkers like the Cars, Roxy Music, Gary ...

In the mid-80s, new wave, the subgenre that combined fun pop hooks with synth sounds, took over the charts. Here are a few songs from this era that we still blast today. When “Take On Me” was merely a ...

If you didn’t play heavy metal, prog rock, or arena rock in the late 70s and early 80s, chances are you were labeled as New Wave. Many artists lumped into that genre came from the UK, where they were ...

The way we think about new wave today is very different from how it was perceived in its own time, when it was essentially ...

Singer Danny Elfman of the new wave rock group Oingo Boingo performs onstage at the US Festival on May 28, 1983 in San Bernardino, California.Larry Hulst&solMichael Ochs Archives&solGetty Images Danny ...

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