As you will see in the below list of the Top 50 New Wave Songs, chosen by the UCR staff, many of these tracks would fit comfortably within other playlists from the era, not just punk, but also pop, ...

Violent, traumatizing scenes flash on the screen — battles, bullets, children being cradled, people fleeing from Vietnam to refuge in America — as “New Wave ... of the ’80s, I was ...

We associate the New Wave music movement with synthy ... in Orange County at the end of the ’70s and into the ’80s. What begins as a panoramic portrait of music wrought from the Vietnamese ...

This was the new wave synth-pop track in 1982. “I Ran (So Far Away)” by A Flock Of Seagulls had quite a bit of success in the US and Europe. It peaked at no. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was ...

“New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora” is the title of Ai’s debut documentary and accompanying book. Both delve into the community of 1980s-era Vietnamese American ...

A survey of the immigrant New Wave music scene in the U.S. after the Vietnam War leads filmmaker Elizabeth Ai to make startling discoveries about her own past.

Violent, traumatizing scenes flash on the screen — battles, bullets, children being cradled, people fleeing from Vietnam to refuge in America — as "New Wave ... of the ’80s, I was obsessed ...