"Since You're Gone" finds The Cars tackling a familiar topic. Thanks to songwriter Ric Ocasek, the song doesn't sound familiar at all.

"We used to joke that the first album should be called The Cars' Greatest Hits," guitarist Elliot Easton has often said, including in the liner notes for Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology in 1995 ...

They began their career as the stoic princes of hook-heavy New Wave. As their career progressed, they made the jump to pop radio in a big way. And then they were gone, sort of suddenly, before ...

Rhino High Fidelity’s audiophile remaster of The Cars’ 1978 debut is a sweet sonic slab of pop-rockin’ perfection. I remember some audiophile friends celebrating when Boston’s The Cars released their ...

The first single by the Cars was just what music fans needed. Released on May 29, 1978, eight days before the Boston quintet's self-titled debut album, "Just What I Needed" immediately shifted the ...