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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.
Over-the-top Makeup. The more makeup you wore, the more 80s cool you were! From bold eyeshadows, contoured blush, and frosty-pink lips, we wore it all at the same time in the 80s.
Devo [a] is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity.
The following list of glam metal bands and artists includes bands and artists that have been described as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] hair band, [3] pop metal [1] and lite metal [1] by professional journalists at some stage in their career.
Fashion were a British new wave band, primarily active from 1978 to 1984, with a brief revival in 2009.They began as a post-punk band, before developing into a new wave/synth-pop ensemble that placed three singles on the lower reaches of the UK chart in 1982–84.
In the early 1980s, new wave gradually lost its associations with punk in popular perception among some Americans. Writing in 1989, music critic Bill Flanagan said; "Bit by bit the last traces of Punk were drained from New Wave, as New Wave went from meaning Talking Heads to meaning the Cars to Squeeze to Duran Duran to, finally, Wham!". [45]
Gene Simmons from KISS. KISS is known for their white and black face paint with bright red (or black) lips—but recently, the rock band stepped out sans makeup for a public outing.. On Thursday ...
New wave music encompassed a wide variety of styles that shared a quirky, lighthearted, and humorous tone [37] that were popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [4] New wave includes several pop-oriented styles from this time period. [4] Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic ...