List of new wave artists

Main article: New Wave music

New Wave bands and artists include:

A

• ABC
• Adam and the Ants
• Adam Ant
• After The Fire
• A-ha
• A House
• The Alarm
• Marc Almond
• Alphaville
• Altered Images
• Amazulu
• Animotion
• April Showers
• The Art of Noise
• Aztec Camera

B

• The B-52's
• Baltimora
• Bananarama
• Bangles
• Toni Basil
• Berlin
• The Bible
• Big Audio Dynamite
• Big Country
• Billy Idol
• Blancmange
• Blondie
• The Blow Monkeys
• Blue in Heaven
• Blue Zoo
• B-Movie
• The Bolshoi
• The Bongos
• Book Of Love
• The Boomtown Rats
• Bourgeois Tagg
• David Bowie
• Bow Wow Wow
• The Boys Next Door
• Bronski Beat
• The Buggles

C

• Cause and Effect
• Cactus World News
• Captain Sensible
• The Call
• Camouflage
• Cardiacs
• The Care
• The Cars
• Cetu Javu
• The Chameleons
• China Crisis
• Cipher
• Anne Clark
• Classix Nouveaux
• Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• The Colourfield
• The Communards
• Elvis Costello
• The Creatures
• Marshall Crenshaw
• The Cretones
• Crowded House
• The Crüxshadows
• Culture Club
• The Cure

D

• The dB's
• Dalek I Love You
• The Damned
• Dead Or Alive
• Department S
• Depeche Mode
• Dexy's Midnight Runners
• Devo
• Divinyls
• Thomas Dolby
• Dramatis
• The Dream Academy
• Stephen Duffy
• Duran Duran
• Ian Dury

E-F

• Easy Image
• The English Beat
• Dave Edmunds
• Erasure
• Eurogliders
• Eurythmics
• Fad Gadget
• Falco
• Fashion
• Fay Ray
• Fiat Lux
• Fiction Factory
• Fischer-Z
• The Fixx
• The Fleshtones
• The Flirts
• A Flock of Seagulls
• The Flying Lizards
• Fra Lippo Lippi
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• Fun Boy Three
• Furniture

G-I

• B. B. Gabor
• Gang of Four
• General Public
• The Go-Betweens
• The Godfathers
• The Go-Go's
• Nina Hagen
• Haircut 100
• Hardware
• Debbie Harry
• Haysi Fantayzee
• Robert Hazard
• Murray Head
• Heaven 17
• Holly and the Italians
• Hoodoo Gurus
• Human League
• Human Sexual Response
• Icehouse
• Icicle Works
• Images in Vogue
• Information Society
• insane picnic
• INXS

J

• Joe Jackson
• The Jam
• Japan
• Howard Jones
• H20

K

• Kajagoogoo
• Nik Kershaw
• King
• Kissing the Pink
• The Knack
• K.U.K.L.
• Kids in the Kitchen

L-M

• Annabel Lamb
• Landscape
• Cyndi Lauper
• Let's Active
• Level 42
• Lene Lovich
• Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
• London
• Love Spit Love
• The Lucy Show
• Nick Lowe
• M
• Kirsty MacColl
• Madness
• Magazine
• Marilyn
• Martha and the Muffins
• Men at Work
• Men Without Hats
• Metropolis
• Mi-Sex
• Missing Persons
• Modern English
• The Modern Lovers
• The Monochrome Set
• The Motels

N-O

• The Nails
• Naked Eyes
• The Network
• Neon Judgement
• New Order
• Klaus Nomi
• The Normal
• Nancy Nova
• Gary Numan
• Hazel O'Connor
• Office Supply
• Oingo Boingo
• The Only Ones
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Our Daughters' Wedding

P

• Graham Parker
• Robert X. Patriot and the White Devil Conspiracy
• The Payolas
• Pet Shop Boys
• Pink Turns Blue
• Plastics
• Platinum Blonde
• The Plimsouls
• The Pogues
• The Polecats
• The Police
• Polyrock
• Prefab Sprout
• The Pretenders
• Propaganda
• The Psychedelic Furs
• Pukka Orchestra
• Positive Noise

R

• Railway Children
• Real Life
• Red Flag
• Red Rockers
• Re-Flex
• The Rezillos - (later Revillos)
• Stan Ridgeway
• Rockpile
• The Romantics
• Romeo Void
• The Room
• Rough Trade
• Roxy Music

S

• Scars
• Peter Schilling
• Screaming Blue Messiahs
• Scritti Politti
• The Selecter
• Seona Dancing
• Pete Shelley
• The Shine
• Jane Siberry
• Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• Simple Minds
• Sinusoide
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Soft Cell
• Belouis Some
• The Sound
• The Sounds
• Spandau Ballet
• Sparks
• Spasmodic Caress
• The Specials
• Split Enz
• Spoons
• Squeeze
• theSTART
• Strange Advance
• The Stranglers
• The Stray Cats
• The Style Council
• Suicide
• Strawberry Switchblade

T

• Taco
• Talking Heads
• Talk Talk
• The Teardrop Explodes
• Tears for Fears
• Tex and the Horseheads
• The Rayguns
• The Rescue (band)
• The The
• The Twins (band)
• theaudience
• Then Jerico
• Thompson Twins
• Til Tuesday
• Tom Tom Club
• Tommy Tutone
• Translator
• Trees (band)
• Trio
• Tuxedomoon
• TV21

U-Z

• Ultravox
• The Undertones
• The Vapors
• Vicious Pink
• Violent Femmes
• Visage
• The Waitresses
• The Wake
• Wall of Voodoo
• Wang Chung
• The Waterboys
• White China
• The Wild Swans
• Kim Wilde
• Pat Wilson
• Wire
• Wire Train
• Xmal Deutschland
• XTC
• Yazoo
• Yello

See also

• List of post-punk bands