Every 80s kid knows the hits of the era. But what about these new wave jams from the 1980s that influenced the genre yet still flew under the radar?

48 years later, the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” is still setting the dance floor on fire.

The repetitive nature of new wave has helped forever embed the genre’s earworms in our brains, like these unforgettable songs ...

Tears for Fears is head over heels for your cover of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” The “Aperture” singer stopped by ...

As one critic said, this band had “more good riffs in one song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums” ...

Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Nina Simone … none of them could have dreamed of a stage like this. Rows of field laborers hacking at sugar cane with machetes. Workers in harnesses dangling from power poles as ...

The pop hitmaker, who hasn’t released a new album in 10 years, sold the rights to her music to Primary Wave. By Ben Sisario Britney Spears, the queen of millennial-era bubble-gum pop, has sold her ...

And just like that, 2026 is well underway. This winter there’s a roster of new cookbooks catching our team’s attention. These titles are dreaming up ways to bring people together (looking at you, ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

There is a wide variety of streaming titles premiering this week. Two of the best movies released last year have both become available on-demand, while Disney+ is attempting to breathe new life into a ...

It’s nowhere near early enough for those of us in the northern hemisphere to start struggling against winter’s somnolent spell, so there’s no need for excuses as you take to your bed with a pile of ...

As someone whose life has revolved around a passion for the arts—and more specifically, music—from a young age, I always dreamt of celebrating music’s biggest night on the West Coast. That dream was ...