"Shake It Up" appeared on The Cars' 1981 album of the same name. The track would go on to reach #2 on the mainstream rock charts and it endures as one of the band's catchiest and most upbeat...
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During the late ’70s and early ’80s, most rock fans were split into two camps, with hardly any common ground. Either you listened to “punk” bands like The Clash, Talking...
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In many ways, The Cars were the prototypical American new wave band of the 1980s. Barging into a pop-music scene then overwhelmed by English New Romantic pretty-boy bands, The Cars’ highly...
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This was the third single from The Cars' 1984 album, HEARTBEAT CITY. "Drive" was written by Ric Ocasek but it's Benjamin Orr who sings lead on it. It would go on to be the...
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"You Might Think" was the first single from The Cars' fifth studio album, HEARTBEAT CITY (1984). The video is considered ground-breaking in its use of computerized effects, and it would go on...
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