Ranging from Alice Cooper to Paul McCartney, these are five artists who ended up making the switch to new wave. Read more ...

Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

The 1980s was a huge decade for new wave music, and plenty of bands and artists were competing for attention in a pretty oversaturated music industry. Quite a few talented acts fell through the cracks ...

Anime character Hatsune Miku is part of the new generation of virtual bands achieving real success. The New Wave Of Cartoon Bands Hatsune Miku is an anime girl with kiddie-pool sized eyes and flowing ...

Band ABC after a performance in Scotland on July 26, 2025. ABC is a new wave pop band. Photo courtesy of @abcmartinfry on Instagram Welcome back to British Invasion, the column that dives into British ...

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 ...

Since its inception, classic rock has been the starting point for just about any and every artist in the last six decades. From EDM to rap, pop to folk, and everything in between, all of today's ...

For kids in the 1980s, their parents probably hated new wave. Imagine little Jimmy coming home with a Devo record. What. Is. This? Awesome is what it is. And if you were an 80s kid, you most certainly ...

“What the fuck is ham powder?”, Richard Lloyd—one of the founding members of proto-punk band Television—asks me over breakfast. We’re at a place called Big Bad Breakfast, a southern breakfast chain ...

It’s very possible that one of the greatest rock bands of all time isn’t from the sun-soaked beaches of California or the foggy banks of England but from the cosmic fringes of outer space. That’s what ...

Earlier this morning I finished In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre by Josh Frank and Charlie Buckholtz. It was a heart-breaking ...