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unusual facts about New Wave


Karkador

This album is based around Hirasawa's dreams, and follows the New Wave precedent set by SCUBA.


Australian pub

Some pubs became associated with particular styles – in the early 1980s, the Civic Hotel in Sydney's CBD provided important support for many emerging local "New Wave" acts including Mental As Anything, The Choirboys, Numbers, Sunnyboys, INXS and Matt Finish.

Baby Sister

Allmusic described the song as "too cute and overdone to be taken seriously" however The Baltimore Afro-American complimented the track as "new waveish" "ear candy".

Between Heaven 'n Hell

On REZ' follow-up to Hostage, the band jettisons much of the New Wave, keyboard-driven musical stylings from that album in favor of the band's traditional hard rock sound.

Bonnie Hayes

In 1982, the band was signed by Slash Records and at the behest of Bob Biggs, the band changed their name to "Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo" and released their first album entitled Good Clean Fun, a New Wave/rock offering.

Box of Toys

Box of Toys were a short-lived British New Wave band, consisting of members Brian Atherton (lead vocals and keyboards), Andy Redhead (drums and guitar), Phil Martin (sax, keyboards and vocals), and Roy Campbell (bass and vocals).

Bruiseology

Bruiseology is the second and final album by the early 1980s new wave band, The Waitresses, released in 1983.

Carolyn Cowan

While in her early 20s, Cowan met members of the Italian group Krisma, a New Wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser.

Castle Infinity

The new wave a cappella group The Bobs provided several original songs for the soundtrack.

Cezary Ostrowski

He is best known for his work as a leader of the critically acclaimed new wave band Bexa Lala, established in 1983.

Color in Your Life

Color in Your Life is the third and final album by American new wave band Missing Persons, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music).

Deep Shag Records

They are best known for the On The Road With Ellison series of releases by Harlan Ellison and for re-issuing rare 1980's modern rock, New Wave, comedy, and spoken word albums which were previously unavailable on CD.

Dennis Comeau

Dennis Comeau (born 1960, New Haven, CT) is a shoe designer and former new wave vocalist and guitarist.

Die Tödliche Doris

Die Tödliche Doris was part of the Geniale Dilettanten (Ingenious Dilettantes) movement, a merger of the New Wave and post-punk scene, which combined influences like Frieder Butzmann, Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria!.

Duty Now for the Future

Duty Now for the Future was the second album by United States New Wave band Devo, released in 1979.

G.I. Orange

G.I. Orange was a British New Wave and pop band, formed in the mid 1980s by the brothers Karl Whitworth (lead vocals and guitar), Simon Whitworth (bass guitar and vocals), and Mark Whitworth (keyboard and vocals), plus Gary Holt (drum and vocals).

Hicks from the Sticks

The album was the brainchild of music journalist Nigel Burnham who wanted to showcase the best New Wave bands in the North of England.

High Land, Hard Rain

High Land, Hard Rain was the debut album by jangle pop, alternative rock, new wave band Aztec Camera, released in 1983.

Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo

Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo is a compilation of songs by American new wave band Devo, released in 1993.

I've Got a Feeling

Serbian new wave band Električni orgazam released a cover version of the song as a B-side of their first single "Konobar".

Indeep

Indeep was a 1980s New York-based R&B/New Wave group that was best known for its post-disco song "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life".

Interstate '82

The vehicle models have been updated to reflect the change in era, and overall, the game has a New Wave feel, with several hitherto-unreleased Devo songs being on the soundtrack, as opposed to the first game's funk-inspired style.

JB Leonor

JB Leonor, born Domingo Leonor III is a Filipino drummer and songwriter, best known as the co-founder of the Filipino rock/new wave band The Dawn.

John Carnell

Despite that list, Carnell tended to prefer adventure and Hard SF to New Wave experimentation so John Christopher, Kenneth Bulmer, and E. C. Tubb were more typical of his tenure.

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

In 2007, the Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band VIS Idoli released a career spanning box set featuring the image as a basis for the box set cover.

Kozmetika

Kozmetika (Serbian Cyrillic: Козметика; trans. Cosmetics) were a Serbian New Wave/art rock band from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers and promoters of New Wave music and culture in Yugoslavia through their youth magazine Izgled.

KSCA

By the early 1980s it became one of the original stations in the United States to launch a format that would later become a staple for Urban contemporary, playing the latest Funk, R&B and New wave music, featuring local DJs such as "Humble Harve", Brian Roberts and "Lucky Pierre."

KSSX

KOGO-FM plays more soft rock (from artists like Hall and Oates and Wham!), new wave (from artists like OMD), and rock (from artists like Stray Cats) hits than XHRM-FM, which has a heavy Hispanic composition added to their music mix.

Lobão

Lobão, still as a drummer, resumed his career playing with Luiz Melodia, Walter Franco and Marina Lima before forming New Wave-inspired band Blitz in 1980.

Martin Tamburovich

Martin Tamburovich (June 6, 1958 – December 2, 2003) was the co-founder of New Alliance Records and vocalist for the short-lived Punk/New Wave band The Reactionaries.

New Ideas

"New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie rock act The Dykeenies.

No Vacancy – The Best of The Motels

No Vacancy – The Best of The Motels is a compilation album by the New Wave band, The Motels released in 1990.

Petar i Zli Vuci

Petar i Zli Vuci (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар и Зли Вуци; trans. Peter and the Wolf Pack) were a former Yugoslav New Wave/ska band from Belgrade, notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project.

"Ogledalo", with the song "Kozaci" ("Cossacks"), also appeared on the Artistička radna akcija various artists compilation, featuring the second generation of New Wave and punk rock bands from Belgrade.

Pomoć, pomoć

"Pomoć, pomoć" ("Help, Help") is the first song which appeared on the first single by Serbian new wave band Idoli.

Punk in Brazil

While in São Paulo, bands were closer to raw punk and hardcore, in the nation's capital, Brasília, punk rock bands were closer to new wave: those were bands like Aborto Elétrico, Legião Urbana, Capital Inicial and Plebe Rude.

Quasi at the Quackadero

The short starred Quasi, characterized by one writer as "an infantile duck with buck front teeth, thick glasses and a red cape", voiced by Deitch; Anita, which one writer described as "Betty Boop with a New Wave wardrobe" and whose Mae West-like voice was supplied by Cruikshank, and robot Rollo.

Radnička Kontrola

Radnička Kontrola (Serbian Cyrillic: Радничка Контрола, trans. Workers' Control) was a former Yugoslav punk rock/New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s and notable for its appearance on the compilation album Artistička radna akcija.

Red Star Records

Red Star Records was an independent, U.S. record label founded by former New York Dolls manager, A&R/record producer Marty Thau in 1977, who signed some of the most influential, American punk rock and new wave bands during the 1970s such as Suicide, The Real Kids, and The Fleshtones.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

Secret Passion

Secret Passion was a contemporary new wave dance production baring more than a fleeting resemblance to Madonna's True Blue album, mainly recorded in Los Angeles with American composers, musicians and arrangers, making it her first album to be recorded outside of Europe.

Shark Vegas

Shark Vegas was a Berlin based New wave band, consisting of ex-Factory Records German representative, Mark Reeder (guitar/tapes/keyboards), Alistair Gray (vocals), Leo Walter (drums/percussion) and Helmut Wittler (bass/keyboards).

Shochiku

Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Speculative poetry

They were succeeded by more serious venues including the US-based The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) (1949–), the UK-based flagship of the New Wave movement New Worlds while it was under the editorship of Michael Moorcock between 1964 and 1970, and the annual reprint anthologies of F&SF and The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Judith Merril.

Static in Transmission

Static in Transmission is the 8th studio album by the Canadian New Wave band Spoons.

The Sound of Sunbathing

The Sound of Sunbathing was the debut album from The Sinceros, a new wave and power pop band from England.

Veronica Vasicka

Specializing in obscure electronic gems, she loves old New Wave, Italo and House music.


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Alexandre Aja

He is a member of the so-called Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for a new wave of directors making brutally violent horror films.

Bijaya Jena

Jena had entered the Indian Film Industry in the 1980s, when Industry was going through a transition and the New Wave Cinema or Serious Cinema (or Art Cinema) which had flourished through the 50s and 60s (under the aegis of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen and Shyam Benegal) was floundering and dying in the 80s.

Chen Duxiu

Especially troubling to Chen was Hu's relationship with Liang Qichao (梁啟超), a supporter of the Duan Qirui (段祺瑞) government and their anti-new wave ideology, which made Chen greatly dissatisfied.

Danielle Crittenden

In partnership with the IWF, Crittenden encouraged a "new wave" of feminism, promoting the works of such writers and scholars as Christina Hoff Sommers, Anne Applebaum, Camille Paglia and others.

Deborah Dir

She is the niece of legendary singer songwriter, guitarist Brian Marnell, known for his innovative Rock New Wave sound with San Francisco, Bay Area SVT (band) with Jack Casady and his collaboration with Jim Carroll Basketball Diaries.

Dharti Ke Lal

The film marked, another chapter in the influential new wave in Indian cinema which focussed on socially relevant themes as in Neecha Nagar (1946), made by Chetan Anand, also scripted by Abbas, and which continued with Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin (1953).

Dinosaur renaissance

Besides Bakker, key artists in this "new wave" were first Mark Hallett, Gregory S. Paul in the 1970s, and during the 1980s Doug Henderson and John Gurche.

Doživjeti stotu

The provocative cover, which appeared in three different versions, was designed by Mirko Ilić, artist closely associated with the Yugoslav New Wave scene.

Eddie Elguera

Elguera also performed in the music video for the new wave band "Devo".

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Fooding

According to Adam Gopnik in his New Yorker piece, the Fooding is to cuisine what the French New Wave was to French Cinema.

FYC

Fine Young Cannibals, a British New Wave band, active between 1984 and 1996

He's So Shy

Released in May 1980 as the lead single from the album Special Things, "He's So Shy"'s fusion of classic girl group pop, new-wave styled dance music and R&B proved the right combination to effect a Top Ten comeback for the Pointer Sisters, the track reaching a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #3 (R&B #10) that October.

Hot Girls in Love

The Cherry Bombz version is quite faithful to the original, but female vocals by Anita Chellemah (formerly of British New Wave act Toto Coelo, who did "I Eat Cannibals") and the high-energy guitar of Andy McCoy (formerly of Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks) set it apart somewhat.

Hott

"Hanging on the Telephone", a song by the power pop band The Nerves, most famously recorded by the new wave band Blondie

I Second That Emotion

The song was later covered by English New Wave band Japan which also proved a commercial success in the United Kingdom, climbing to #9 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1982.

Jazz Mafia

In 2007 the Jazz Mafia Horns went on a nationwide tour with 1980s new wave musician Thomas Dolby.

Jeffrey Rosenberg

In 2010, Rosenberg teamed up with Steve Gregoropoulos and Ron Regé Jr. of Lavender Diamond to form a dark and somewhat new wave band named Daylong Valleys of the Nile.

KEEF-TV

One of KVST's notable programs included the first television appearance of the new wave rock group Oingo Boingo in 1975.

Kendal Calling

Friday headliners were British drum 'n' bass artists Chase & Status, Saturday headliners were Wakefield indie outfit The Cribs and New York New Wave/Pop group Blondie closed the festival on Sunday evening.

Les Nickelettes

Evolving a more structured format the group created an original cabaret revue and was the first new wave act to play at the famed Fab Mab then known as the Mabuhay Gardens dinner club in 1975.

Michael Cawood Green

Michael Green's fiction forms part of a 'new wave' of writing (see also Zakes Mda, Ivan Vladislavic, J. M. Coetzee) which explores the altered landscape of Post-apartheid South Africa.

Michaele Jordana

Jordana took a hiatus from the world of New wave music to have a child, Ramona Pringle, and went on to integrate fine art and music in her future works as a multiplatform artist.

Mick Glossop

Glossop was initially known for recording and producing new wave and punk bands such as Magazine, Public Image Ltd, The Ruts, The Skids and Penetration, but also had success working with many other artists, including Kevin Coyne, The Waterboys, Furniture, The Wonder Stuff, Frank Zappa, Paul Brady, Ian Gillan,RiTA, John Lee Hooker and Lloyd Cole.

Mini pops

Minny Pops, an Amsterdam-based new wave/electronic/art punk band active from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s

Monthly Film Bulletin

From January 1971, all films were listed in alphabetical order, mainly because a new wave of critics who were influencing the magazine had already overturned the assumptions implicit in the separation of films (for example, several by Sergio Leone and many from the stable of Roger Corman were only included in the "shorter notices" section).

Music of Uganda

By this time, Jamaican dancehall had already taken a sharp turn away from the harsh "ragga" sound based on chatting over simplistic riddims and there was a new wave of dancehall deejays like Vybz Kartel and Busy Signal who were deejaying over more advanced riddims.

New wave of new wave

Robert Christgau identified the mid-1990s NWONW movement as the peak of a new wave revival that has continued on and off since, stating "1994 was the top of a curve we can't be certain we've reached the bottom of".

Oleg Tistol

Oleg Tistol's early works, the large-scale paintings (“Zinovy Bogdan Khmelnitsky” (1988), “Reunification” (1988), “The Farewell of Slavyanka” (1989), “Exercise with Maces” (1989)) demonstrate the main features of the Ukrainian “new wave” — free play with symbols, bright expressive colors, and special “exaggeration” of artistic devices.

Olivia Barash

The album was a collection of punk rock and "new wave" songs featured on Bingenheimer's late night radio show on 106.7 KROQ-FM in Los Angeles.

Philippe Ramos

Philippe Ramos is one of the French fllm directors in the new “New Wave” of French cinema such as Yves Caumon, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, and François Ozon.

Sangre

Sangre, which means "Blood" in Spanish, is the fictional Earth-like planet ruled by a sadistic cannibal elite, The Brotherhood of Pain in science fiction New Wave author Norman Spinrad's novel of violent revolution The Men in the Jungle.

Steve Levine

His career began as a trainee tape-op at CBS studios in 1975, soon progressed to in house engineer, working with many now classic new wave and punk acts including The Clash, The Jags, The Vibrators, XTC as well as many of CBS Records' pop acts, including Sailor.

Tata Research Development and Design Centre

TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).

The Auteurs

The Polish band Lenny Valentino took its name from The Auteurs' song on their album Now I'm a Cowboy and the Minneapolis based band, Valet, took its name from the song "Valet Parking" from New Wave.

The Judy's

The Judy's were a Pearland, Texas-based punk and new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

TV Moroni

TV Moroni's two songs, "Moja borba" ("My Struggle") and "Pada noć" ("The Night Is Falling"), were the closing tracks of the "Artistička radna akcija" (Artistic Work Action) various artist compilation, featuring the second generation of the Belgrade New Wave and punk rock bands.

Under Influence

Zones was the New Wave band formed by Alex Harvey's cousin Willie Gardner (lead vocals, guitar), and ex-Slik (1974–1977) and PVC2 (early to September 1977) members, Kenny Hyslop (drums), Billy McIsaac (keyboards) and Russell Webb (bass), in 1977, after the latter three's bandmate, Midge Ure, departed to join The Rich Kids.

Urban75

Offline has put on well known acts such as Mercury Prize nominees The Portico Quartet, author Howard Marks, comedians Rob Newman, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Richard Herring and new wave legend Tom Robinson, with all acts being paid two pints of beer.

Vance DeGeneres

After a two-year stint in the Marine Corps, during which he reached the rank of corporal, DeGeneres hosted a radio program called New Wave New Orleans in the late 1970s, broadcast on WRNO-FM.

Velvet Monkeys

Formed in 1980 from the ashes of Williamsburg, Virginia's new wave rockers Citizen 23, the band relocated to Washington, DC at the right time to become darlings of the local art-punk scene, along with other post-punkers such as Egoslavia, Bob Boilen's Tiny Desk Unit, Chalk Circle, and The Insect Surfers.

Vhrsti

Vhrsti (born 1 August 1975 in Rokycany, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech illustrator, writer, children's book author, comics artist and scenarist, member of the unofficial new wave of Czech and Slovak comics Generation Zero and the Czech Cartoonists' Union.

VIA Talas

The band participated the Artistička radna akcija (Artistic Work Action) various artists compilation, featuring the second generation of Belgrade New Wave and punk rock bands, with two songs, "Hawai (najljepši kraj)" ("Hawai (The Most Beautiful Place)") and "Lilihip (My Boy Lollipop)", the later being a cover version of a Millie Small song "My Boy Lollipop".

Whammy!

The B-52's' goal was to craft an album that would return to the New Wave sound and atmosphere of their debut album while updating their signature sound with drum machines and synthesizers, a slight contrast to their previous 1982 EP Mesopotamia, produced by David Byrne of Talking Heads who was intent on broadening the band's sound.

You Spoof Discovery

According to Jane Root, then the president of Discovery Channel, the series was intended to be the beginning of a new wave of viewer-generated content.

Yves Caumon

Yves Caumon is one of the French fllm directors in the new "New Wave" in French cinema such as Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos, François Ozon.

Zhang Enhua

The defender would be part of a new wave of foreign imports at the club as newly installed manager Lennie Lawrence brought in David Nielsen, Knut Anders Fostervold and Menno Willems.