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 ...

New series announced: MGM+ will debut *New Wave* on August 9, a four-part exploration of the genre’s 1977–1987 rise from punk roots to global pop influence. Key voices featured: Duran Duran’s John ...

Mile-high hair. Synthesized sounds. Teenage rebellion. Elizabeth Ai was on a mission to excavate an untold story of rebellious punks in the chaotic world of 80s Vietnamese New Wave until she uncovers ...

A new documentary about the culture and identity of Vietnamese Americans growing up in the eighties and their connection to the new wave music scene premiered to much fanfare in Chicago. Directed by ...

Still from New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora (2024), dir. Elizabeth Ai (image courtesy New Wave Documentary) Last fall, I attended a double documentary screening at ...