Elvis Costello came out of the British pub rock scene, which developed into the facet of new wave characterized primarily by angry young men—Graham Parker, most prominently, and pub-rock pioneers...
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Years before R.E.M. became critics’ and college radio darlings in the mid-‘80s, the B-52s—formed over a flaming volcano cocktail at a local bar—solidly placed Athens, Georgia on the nation’s music...
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After first working up his chops in the UK pub rock act Kilburn and the High Roads, which disbanded after a single album release, Ian Dury set off to form...
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Devo was formed from a group of Kent State artists and musicians from Akron, Ohio, who had transformed overnight from hippies to cynical pessimists after seeing their friends murdered by...
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This Heat crawled out from the wreckage of punk’s crash and burn, during a time in which a multitude of great UK post-punk bands were taking punk’s noise and energy...
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The Cars emerged from Boston with one of America’s most appealing, radio-ready new wave sounds. They played back-to-basics rock with a touch of power pop craftsmanship, and vocalists Ric Ocasek...
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Suicide, which emerged from the underground New York scene before and alongside the growing crowd of the punk and new wave scene, may have been the first act to bill...
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Growing up a teenage boy in the ‘80s, I had ears that were deeply steeped in Van Halen. The band was an integral part of the classic rock atmosphere. But...
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