Many years ago, a band of hip bohemians was playing for their friends at a house party in Athens, GA. Nobody thought of telling the band that their quirky song about a rock lobster would become a ...

Thanks to the picture-distorting power of its biggest successes — Blondie, Duran Duran, the Cars, the Go-Go’s, and so on — it’s easy to think of the New Wave era as one of coolness and style. But more ...