A sped-up version of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America” can typically be heard playing through 16-year-old Zach Peckman’s Bluetooth headphones. The bass of the electric guitar, the high-hat of the drums, ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...