MTV kicked off in 1981 and became one of the most memorable things about music media in the 1980s. The channel’s early days ...

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Can we for a second just appreciate the resiliency and excellence of The Doobie Brothers? Not too many other bands scored huge crossover hits for as long a span of time as they did, not to mention in ...

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, ...

The 1984 song won Springsteen his first Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance. Not bad for a song that the rock legend ...

At least 50 TV theme songs have hit the charts, according to Billboard, including 14 from television comedies. There are some ...

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each yielding era-defining hits in their own ways. Perhaps the best way (the way we thought would be best, anyway) to crystallize and digest this sprawling, diverse epoch is to look back over ...