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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.
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 ...
In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic, new pop, and new music genres. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Some new wave acts, particularly R.E.M. , maintained new wave's indie label orientation through most of the 1980s, rejecting potentially more lucrative careers from signing to a major label. [ 85 ]
The band was formed from the remnants of Coventry rock-ska band the Reluctant Stereotypes, along with producer Paul Sampson. After the Reluctant Stereotypes, singer Paul King formed the Raw Screens, who perfected their act and style to what Paul King and his manager Perry Haines called "Multi Tone", a reference to "Two Tone", and then, in 1983, relaunched the group as band King from the ...
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 ...
Wang Chung are an English new wave band, formed in London in 1980 by Nick Feldman, Jack Hues and Darren Costin. The name Wang Chung is Chinese (黃鐘, pinyin: huáng zhōng; Wade–Giles: huang chung), meaning "yellow bell" in English, and is the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.
Dead or Alive were an English pop band who released seven studio albums from 1984 to 2000. The band formed in 1980 in Liverpool and found success in the mid-1980s, releasing seven singles that made the UK Top 40 and three albums in the UK Top 30.
The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.