Below, we’ve ranked our Top 15 New Wave singers. Factors like cultural impact, vocal talent and stage presence were all taken ...

You won't believe what Collective Soul sounds like now.

New Wave helped give late 1970s and early 1980s rock an alternative edge. Artists in this sub-genre weren’t afraid to explore the fringes of rock and pop, blending the two for a distinctive sound that ...

Blondie is marking 46 years since they earned their second No. 1 hit. On April 19, 1980, Blondie's hit song "Call Me" soared to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, earning the band the second of their ...

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 ...

New wave got its start in the late '70s with flinty records by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Joe Jackson, then was refined into the new decade by forward-thinkers like the Cars, Roxy Music, Gary ...

It’s been more than 46 years since the ’80s began, and much of the musical firmament of that time – from boomboxes to an MTV that played music videos from Duran Duran, the Go-Go’s and the Cars – is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty-four years ago, beloved new-wave rock band Modern English released "I Melt with You"—a song that only took 10 minutes to ...