Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have ...

Both with his band Wall of Voodoo and on solo albums, Stan Ridgway is a vivid storyteller, bringing a noir style (and a distinctive vocal style and harmonica-playing) to tales of love, lust, unhappy ...

Mention the name Stan Ridgway and his former New Wave band Wall of Voodoo to someone, and they might recall the L.A. band's quirky hit Mexican Radio. You know, the one where that wry-voiced singer ...

Some LAists may remeber the halcyon days of the late '80s when Pirate Radio rocked the airwaves of many Southern Californians. For those of us who were still young and impressionable, 100.3 was cooler ...

Let’s set the wayback machine to 1982. The term “new wave” had finally become synonymous in the United States with synth-heavy dance pop with a little bit of the post-punk edge left in it. MTV was ...

As part of NPR's series "One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs," music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas recommends "Ring of Fire" by Wall of Voodoo. The... Combining Film Scores And Pop Rock, Wall Of Voodoo ...