New Wave

New Wave Punk Rock 

The Vapors Create a Buzz with Wasp in a Jar

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 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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Music Journalism 

Before It Was Easy: Ira Robbins Talks Trouser Press’s 50th Birthday

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 Jim Allen 1 Comment 50th anniversary, Big Country, Devo, Elvis Costello, Ira A. Robbins, Ira Robbins, Jimmy Page, Magazine, New Wave, Pete Townshend, Rory Gallagher, The Who, Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books, Zip It Up! The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984

A seminal rock magazine gets an awesome anthology

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Folk New Wave Rock 

Graham Parker Announces New Album

July 17, 2023July 17, 2023 Ron Hart 1 Comment 2023, Big Stir Records, British, Geraint Watkins, Graham Parker, Graham Parker & The Goldtops, Jim Russell, Last Chance to Learn the Twist, Martin Belmont, New Wave, Simon Edwards

Last Chance to Learn the Twist arrives September 9 via Big Stir Records

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New Wave North Americana Rock 

WATCH: Donnie Doolittle Shares “Resurrect Me”

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Americana, Donnie Doolittle, Goth, Iggy Pop, indie, Leonard Cohen, New Wave, Nick Cave, Orville Peck, Resurrect Me

Eponymous debut from “Southern New Wave” artist due April 7th

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New Wave Pop Rock 

I Guess It’s Just a Feeling: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) at 40

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 T.A. Inskeep 0 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, David A. Stewart, Eurythmics, New Wave, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Who's That Girl

Eurythmics’ pop breakthrough is sneakily subversive

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New Wave Power Pop Rock 

Inside The New Kids On The Street Box Set

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments Bram Tchaikovsky, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elvis Costello, Kids On The Street, New Wave, Patti Smith Group, Power pop, The Distractions, The Jags, The Jam, The Motors, The Pretenders, The Records, The Stiffs, The Teardrop Explodes, XTC

The latest Cherry Red compilation focuses on the peak years of UK Power Pop and New Wave

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adblock Alternative Rock New Wave Pop Rock 

Glenn Tilbrook Squeezes Into 65

August 31, 2022September 1, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2015, 2022, 65th birthday, Argybargy, Babylon and On, Chris Difford, Cool For Cats, Cradle to the Grave, Glenn Tilbrook, interview, New Wave, Paul McCartney, Squeeze, The Beatles, The Deathray Davies, The Kinks

Read a previously unpublished interview with the New Wave legend

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New Wave 

You Always Said We’d Still Be Friends: 40 Years of OMD

April 13, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Andy McCluskey, Enola Gay, If You Leave, New Wave, OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Pretty In Pink, Synthpop

As Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark embark upon a massive anniversary tour, singer Andy McCluskey talks with Rock & Roll Globe about the synth-pop duo’s illustrious career

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Indie Rock New Wave Power Pop 

It’s Just A Jenny Thing

September 14, 2021September 16, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, American Canyon, Ehren Baker, Matt Easton, Mike Phillips, New Wave, Shyam Rao, Star Search, The Jenny Thing

Berkeley New Wave favorites from the 90s return with a new, progressive sound on American Canyon 

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New Wave Punk Rock 

‘Have A Nice Death’: Chrissie Hynde at 70

September 7, 2021September 7, 2022 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 70th Birthday, Boston, Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Martin Chambers, New Wave, Orpheum Theatre, Pete Farndon, Pretenders, Punk, Ray Davies, Stockholm, The Buzzcocks, The Kinks, The Pretenders

Looking back on over 40 years of seeing the fiery Pretenders frontwoman on stage

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jazz New Wave 

How Landscape’s Subversive Synth-Pop Helped Shape the ‘80s

March 9, 2021March 15, 2021 Jim Allen 7 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Blitz, Einsten A Go Go, Jazz, Kraftwerk, Landscape, New Romantic, New Wave, Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, Yellow Magic Orchestra

Follow the journey from jazz to New Romantic as “Einstein a-Go-Go” turns 40

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Indie Rock New Wave 

Paul Darrah and the Power of “Poof Pop”

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 1 Comment Bryan Ferry, David Sylvain, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Japan, LGBTQ, New Wave, Poof Pop, Roxy Music, Tenant From Zero, The Thompson Twins

The sole proprietor of Brooklyn New New Romantic act Tenant From Zero on the sounds that define his being

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New Wave Pop 

Argybargy at 40: When Squeeze’s Geeky Gambit Went Global

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Jim Allen 1 Comment 1980, Argybargy, Chris Difford, England, Glen Tilbrook, New Wave, Pulling Mussels From A Shell, Squeeze

Four decades ago Difford and Tilbrook made the New Wave safe for nerds

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New Wave Pop Punk Rock 

What A ‘Fool’ Believes

January 18, 2019October 6, 2025 Jim Allen 0 Comments Graham Maby, Joe Jackson, New Wave

Joe Jackson on looking sharp and looking forward

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Pop Punk Rock 

Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter

October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 Luci Turner 0 Comments Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Imposters, New Wave

Elvis Costello and The Imposters present Look Now

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