Back in the 1970s and 1980s, one would have been hard-pressed to say that the then-burgeoning punk and new wave rock scenes would define both decades (although you can have disco prominent in the mid ...

On Sat/28, Mabuhay and neighboring On Broadway will host a celebration of 50 years of punk in San Francisco, a day-long ...

In 1985, some friends and I drove from my hometown, Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis, as we often did, to see a show. We went to see Hüsker Dü, who had just released Flip Your Wig, their last album on ...

As synthesizers and drum machines became more affordable in the 1980s, novel technology became as common in new wave groups as guitars were in the punk and rock and roll bands that preceded them. This ...

XACTO and Everyday I Write The Hook deliver a one-night celebration of XTC and Elvis Costello at Kindred Bandroom, Melbourne on 14 March 2026 ...

New York City in the ’70s was a place of reinvention and variety the likes of which could hardly be compared to other places.

Melodic synth-lines and steady electronic drums. Today, the signature sounds of new wave music feel perhaps a bit old and outdated. During its high point during the 1980s, however, new wave was hailed ...

Three albums. Zero memories. Journey into the chemical fog where Alice Cooper created masterpieces he would completely forget making ...