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 ...

New wave arrived in the late 70s as a more palatable offshoot of punk. The high-energy and radio-friendly alternative soon came to dominate pop culture, especially with the emergence of MTV. And by ...

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 ...