Violent, traumatizing scenes flash on the screen — battles, bullets, children being cradled, people fleeing from Vietnam to refuge in America — as “New Wave,” the documentary, opens. These are the ...

New wave music was around before the early '80s when the genre first started an advancement onto the U.S. charts. Often seen as punk's poppier younger siblings, new wave artists often shared radio ...

In the late 1980s, Elizabeth Ai liked to pile into a car with her not-that-much-older uncle and aunts and ride around Orange County, California, blasting New Wave music and getting away from their ...

As a musical movement, new wave is hard to pin down. The phrase was first coined in the late ‘70s as a way to describe a burgeoning sonic style that strayed from punk rock’s heavy-handed sound. The ...