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  1. Oct 13, 2020 · New Wave music meant a lot of things in the late 1970s. It encompassed pretty much everything that followed the punk movement that still served as an alternative to mainstream pop and rock. There ...

  2. May 31, 2023 · Given the genre's breadth, most pop-rock bands of the late '70s and early '80s were labeled new wave at one point or another. Despite its range — or perhaps because of it — a sense of musical ...

  3. New wave, category of popular music spanning the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Taking its name from the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s, this catchall classification was defined in opposition to punk (which was generally more raw, rough edged, and political) and to mainstream “corporate”.

  4. Jun 8, 2021 · New Wave Music: The History and Bands of New Wave Music. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 8, 2021 • 3 min read. While much of 1960s and 1970s rock music bore the heavy influence of the blues, the new wave movement took a different route.

  5. www.nme.com › features › best-new-wave-album-talking-heads-devo-abc-2754393The best new wave albums ever - NME

    Sep 17, 2020 · New wave’s first boy-band? Quite possibly. Culture Club, ‘Colour By Numbers’ (1983) Virtually any mention of Boy George’s Culture Club tends to be followed by a reference to their ...

  6. There were edgy new wave songwriters like Elvis Costello, pop bands like Squeeze, tough rock & rollers like the Pretenders, pop-reggae like the Police, mainstream rockers like the Cars, and ska revivalists like the Specials and Madness.

  7. May 5, 2020 · By Scott Rowley. last updated 5 May 2020. After punk came a new wave of bands determined to do things differently, and often sounding very unalike. We round up 10 of the best new wave and post punk albums ever made. New wave and its ugly twin sister, post-punk, are two terms used and abused with abandon when describing the music that followed ...

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