Let’s set the wayback machine to 1982. The term “new wave” had finally become synonymous in the United States with synth-heavy dance pop with a little bit of the post-punk edge left in it.

A collaboration with Giorgio Moroder for the movie “American Gigolo,” this song became a defining anthem of the early ’80s.

If there's one musical act whose sound was totally synonymous with the 1980s, it has to be Canadian new wave pop band, Men Without Hats. With iconic tunes like "The Safety Dance," "Antarctica," "Pop ...

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Debbie Harry, the groundbreaking lead singer of Blondie and a defining voice of New York’s punk and new wave scene, turned 80 ...

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Bouncy ’80s pop takes root in ‘New Wave,’ a film about Vietnamese Americans’ glam glory days Young Vietnamese Americans bond over music in the documentary “New Wave.” (Elizabeth Ai) ...

The story goes that a teen named Darius recorded the song off a West German radio station sometime around 1984, sandwiching it between other popular '80s new wave and pop hits on a mixtape that ...

Morten Harket, frontman of the Norwegian ’80s new wave band A-ha, has Parkinson’s disease. Harket opens up about his diagnosis and treatment in an article for the band’s website. A-ha is ...

The neon and plastic pizzazz of 80’s new wave is also a big draw, and both represent a nostalgic alternative to contemporary mainstream music that still resonates.