New wave was the music movement that merged edgy rock and raucous punk with a synth-driven adhesive, uniting all the best elements of the decades that came before into a buoyant, edgy sound. Late ...

This song might have come out in 1978, but it certainly captured the energy of 1980s new wave synth-pop. In fact, in 1980, Grace Jones recorded a cover of “Warm Leatherette” that became a massive new ...

But from all that experimentation came some really great songs—tracks that despite the odds will last throughout the decades. And that’s just what we wanted to highlight here below. Indeed, these are ...

From Rio to Seven and the Ragged Tiger to Notorious, every Duran Duran album released in the 80s, ranked.