New wave was the music movement that merged edgy rock and raucous punk with a synth-driven adhesive, uniting all the best elements of the decades that came before into a buoyant, edgy sound. Late ...

When considering the 1980s and its musical landscape, there is a lot to laugh at. Let’s just say the artists from the era were really trying stuff out. Experimenting. From disco to synth-rock to ...

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 ...

New Wave reset musical culture while also dropping loads of unforgettable gems. These four songs shouldn't be dismissed in ...

It’s been more than 46 years since the ’80s began, and much of the musical firmament of that time – from boomboxes to an MTV that played music videos from Duran Duran, the Go-Go’s and the Cars – is ...

There are few songs that capture the spirit of the 1980s quite like The Escape Club's hit "Wild Wild West." Released in 1988, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and quickly became an ...