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 ...

If you tune in to 103.1 The Wave this week, you might be surprised to hear the Talking Heads and REM replaced by Dean Martin and Brenda Lee crooning holiday classics. State of play: After years of ...

In the late 1980s, Elizabeth Ai liked to pile into a car with her not-that-much-older uncle and aunts and ride around Orange County, California, blasting New Wave music and getting away from their ...

Early on, new wave wasn’t so easy to identify. It was often used interchangeably with punk and post-punk. But eventually it coalesced into its synth-heavy form that became a hallmark of 1980s pop ...