New Wave

Dance New Wave 

Sublime Strangelove

March 27, 2025March 29, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Brent Meyer, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Julian Shah-Tayler, Leo Luganskiy, Martin Gore, Strangelove, Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience

A Depeche Mode tribute band branches out on their own

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New Wave Punk Rock 

The Vapors Create a Buzz with Wasp in a Jar

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment Blondie, Clem Burke, Eddie Munoz, Josh Kantor, Keith Streng, Michael Giblin, New Wave, Split Squad, The Baseball Project, The Fleshtones, The Plimsouls, The Vapors, Turning Japanese, Vapors Own Records, Wasp in a Jar

Bassist Steve Smith talks about the New Wave legends’ fourth album in 45 years

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New Wave Punk Rock 

Catching Blondie Through The Decades

January 5, 2025January 5, 2025 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Blondie, CBGB, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri, No Exit, Pollinator

A celebration of the NYC legends in honor of guitarist Chris Stein’s 75th birthday

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New Wave Pop 

WATCH: MA Jolie Fleur Shares “Let’s Get Out Of Here”

November 12, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Alexandria Leigh, Depeche Mode, Let's Get Out of Here, MA Jolie Fleur, Motown, Myke Adams

New EP, Detachments, out in December

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Alternative Rock Dream Pop New Wave Pop Rock 

The Cure Release New Song ‘A Fragile Thing’

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, A Fragile Thing, Jason Cooper, Reeves Gabrels, Robert Smith, Roger O’Donnell, Simon Gallup, Songs Of A Lost World, The Cure

Long-awaited album, Songs of a Lost World, out Nov. 1

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New Wave Pop Rock 

WATCH: BETTY Celebrates 40 Years with “Flow”

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff, BETTY, EAT, Elizabeth Ziff, Flow, Le Tigre, New York City, The Gossip

NYC pop-rock trio’s new album, EAT, out now!

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Films New Wave Rock 

Found a Job: Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense at 40

September 11, 2024September 12, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Bernie Worrell, Chris Frantz, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth

Looking back on the band’s groundbreaking concert film and soundtrack

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New Wave Remembrance Rock 

Greg Kihn, Plus Songwriter and Smart Dude, Has Died at 75

August 18, 2024February 5, 2025 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Dave Edmunds, Greg Kihn, Jeopardy, KUFX, Marshall Crenshaw, The Breakup Song

Quirky popster hit it big-ish with ‘Jeopardy’

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Indie Rock New Wave Pop 

LISTEN: Korean Boyfriend Confronts “Middle Management”

August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments DFA Records, Korean Boyfriend, Los Angeles, Middle Management, Simple Face, Stanley Cho

New album, Simple Face, due out October 26th

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New Wave Punk Ska 

On My Radio: A New Book Explores The 2 Tone Phenomenon

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 2 Tone Records, Daniel Rachel, Jerry Dammers, Lynval Golding, Madness, Pauline Black, Ranking Roger, ska, Terry Hall, The English Beat, The Selecter, The Specials, Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story

A chat with author Daniel Rachel plus 10 essential 2 Tone tracks!

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Art Pop Experimental New Wave Rock 

Andy Summers: Exploring Vertiginous Canyons

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2024, A Series of Glances, Andy Summers, EP, Eric Burdon, Soft Machine, Synchronicity, The Animals, The Police, Vertiginous Canyons

Talking with the legendary Police guitarist about his unique new EP, the Synchronicity box and the prospect of retirement

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Dance New Wave Pop 

Introspective: Neil Tennant Turns 70

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 70th Birthday, Chris Lowe, It's a Sin, Neil Tennant, Nonetheless, Pet Shop Boys, U.S. Tour, West End Girls

Celebrating the career of the Pet Shop Boys co-founder

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New Wave Prince Rock Soul 

How Purple Rain Cemented Prince’s Path to Immortality

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Apollonia, Bobby Z, Brown Mark, Darling Nikki, Dr. Fink, Dreams, James Foley, Let's Go Crazy, Lisa Coleman, Prince, Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain, The Time, Vanity, Wendy Melvoin, When Doves Cry, William Blinn

Looking back on 40 years of the soundtrack to the Purple One’s cinematic breakthrough

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jazz New Wave Punk Remembrance 

Our Infatuation: Remembering James Chance

June 19, 2024June 20, 2024 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Henry Rollins, Infinite Zero, James Chance, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Les Contortions, James Chance and the Contortions, James Change and Terminal City, James White and the Blacks, Lydia Lunch, New York, No Wave, RIP, Suicide, the Flaming Demonics

The celebrated icon of the New York No Wave scene gone at 71

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New Wave Pop 

Sour Milk Cow Blues: Goodbye Cruel World at 40

June 18, 2024June 20, 2024 Ryan Maffei 3 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Bruce Thomas, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, F-Beat, Goodbye Cruel World, Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve

Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ unhappiest (but not worst) album reaches its bitter middle age

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