As you will see in the below list of the Top 50 New Wave Songs, chosen by the UCR staff, many of these tracks would fit comfortably within other playlists from the era, not just punk, but also pop, ...

New wave as a genre may have more or less run its course, but there were so many incredible works to come out of that style of music in the 1980s. So much so, that there are quite a few underrated ...

These four new wave and synth-pop classics were definitive one-hit wonders in the 1980s, and they've aged pretty well.

Adam Ant remains an influential figure in the history of British music, known for his innovative sound, unique style, and impact on the new wave genre. Given his relatively ordinary origins, Adam Ant ...

“New Wave” juxtaposes the memories of Ai’s uncles ... To an enthralled generation, the genre’s music has never died — a tribute to the longing for belonging, still not erased.

“Lyfestyle,” the latest album from the 24-year-old rapper Yeat, recently debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart. It ...

Wave to Earth is rooted in bringing a "new wave" to music, bridging distinct genres and reaching listeners on a global scale. Since the Korean indie band last spoke with USA TODAY in August 2023 ...

The New Wave of American Heavy Metal was an exciting period in time ... Pantera and death metal-influenced screams and the melodic sensibilities of classic metal. The bounds of the genre tag are still ...

“New wave happened to be punk, post-punk, then all the synthesized music. And for me, I'm saying this is a sub-genre of that synthesized music — Eurodisco. And Eurodisco is the music that the ...

The history of SF is a history of ambivalent deaths. The many movements within the genre—the New Wave, feminist SF, cyberpunk—are marked as both transcendent death-as-births, finally demolishing the ...