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2 unusual facts about new Wave music


Dennis Comeau

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

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).


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.

Boogiest Band In Town

Midge Ure was then 21 years old, and in the future he became an important figure of New Wave music, as frontman of Ultravox, then called Tiger Lily and led by Dennis Leigh, later known as John Foxx and a successful electronic musician, who he replaced in 1979.

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.

Den Harrow

Den Harrow was an Italian new wave project fronted by Stefano Zandri (born June 4, 1962 in Nova Milanese, Italy) a fashion model from Milan, Italy.

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.

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.

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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.

Punk zine

Perhaps the most influential of the fanzines to cross over from science fiction fandom to rock and, later, punk rock and new wave music was Greg Shaw's Who Put the Bomp, founded in 1970.

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).

Static in Transmission

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

Streetwalkers

By 1977 their potential to become more important in UK rock history was diminished by changing musical taste, due to the growing influence of Punk rock and New Wave music on European culture.

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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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.