On just his second single, Dave Edmunds scored a Top-5 U.S. hit with “I Hear You Knockin’” in 1970. He’d never again reach that level of success in the U.S., although the Welshman stayed strong in the ...

New wave was all the rage in the 1980s. And if you were an 80s kid, you remember the massive pop hits that had a touch of new wave to them. But what about the underground songs, the tunes that ...

A road rage incident inspired the hit song.

The way we think about new wave today is very different from how it was perceived in its own time, when it was essentially ...

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. MTV was ...

Stuck between the '70s and '90s, literally and figuratively, the '80s reached its midpoint in a melting pot of styles: rock, pop, metal, new wave, alternative, soul, dance and more. As selected by the ...

A timeless song doesn't have to be one like many of Bob Dylan's that tries to make a social commentary on whatever is ailing the world at the time it was written. The track could simply be the nearly ...