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 ...

The repetitive nature of new wave has helped forever embed the genre’s earworms in our brains. Many new wave hits were built atop danceable rhythms, which also rely on simple repetition. And this ...