Hence, it is not surprising that one of the biggest country music hits of the 80s came from one of the three gods of Texas. The man has a surplus of hit material.

New wave softened punk rock's edges with synthesizers and drum machines that still sound new today, decades after it arrived.

Deep cuts: Three '80s New Wave hits from great, but overlooked, albums The records that birthed these songs are full of tracks that deserve as much attention as the hits that got all the love.

Short for Experience Unlimited, this highly influential D.C. go-go band took its percussive approach and funky licks to the ...

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In an Oct. 11 interview on Daniel Wall's Behind the Wall podcast, hit songwriter Evan "Kidd" Bogart spoke about writing the lyrics of RiRi's 2006 single and first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

For years now, music fans have been attempting to track down the authorship of a forgotten new wave song which had been recorded off German radio in the mid-1980s. The search first began in 2007 ...

Greg Kihn, Who Scored Hits With ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘The Breakup Song,’ Dead at 75 The leader of the Greg Kihn band penned big hits in the 1980s, with "Weird Al" famously parodying "Jeopardy" ...

We dive into the song and the issues it brings up. Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” is a launching pad for a conversation about the prevalence of Afrocentric and diasporic thinking in the ’80s.

Songwriter Reveals One of Rihanna's No. 1 Hits Features Many '80s Song Titles Hidden in Its Lyrics Evan "Kidd" Bogart explained the process behind writing Rihanna's "SOS" in a new interview ...