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The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture". [4]
Just like progressive rock acts and other mainstream music groups of the 1970s, heavy rock bands were viewed as – in the words of journalist Garry Bushell – "lumbering dinosaurs" by a music press infatuated with punk rock and new wave. [19] Some writers even declared the premature demise of heavy metal altogether. [20]
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which were more or less forcibly identified as heavy ...
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes , and David Robinson . Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader.
The Sharks (band) Shiny Toy Guns; Shitting Glitter; Single Bullet Theory (new wave band) Slow Children; Smash Palace (rock band) Special Affect; The Split Squad; Sprites (band) Spy Glass Blue; SSQ (band) Stiffed (band) Suburban Lawns; The Suburbs (band) Sue Saad and the Next; Suzy Saxon and the Anglos; SVT (band) The Swimming Pool Q's
The Beloved (band) Beshara (band) Bette Bright and the Illuminations; The Bible (band) Big Sound Authority; The Big Supreme; Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Bim (band) Blancmange (band) Blanket of Secrecy; The Blitz Brothers; The Blockheads; The Blow Monkeys; The Blue Aeroplanes; The Blue Ox Babes; Blue Rondo à la Turk (band) Blue Zoo; The ...
This category contains synth-pop new wave bands from the United Kingdom. Synth-pop was a distinct genre during the new wave era of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Pages in category "British synth-pop new wave groups"