New wave, the genre of music that saw punk attitude collide with pop's commercial instincts, became a phenomenon in both the U.S. and the U.K. in the aftermath of the punk explosion of the mid-1970s.

One-hit wonders were all the rage in 1979, especially in genres like new wave and disco. If you were a teen that year, I bet you remember these solitary hits all too well. Though, I must admit, one of ...

The late 1970s and 1980s birthed the rise of new wave music, the natural response to the growing use of new audio tech (like the synthesizer) and the growing boredom with old-school rock music. Some ...

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