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 ...

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 ...