List of new wave artists

Main article: New Wave music

The following lists groups or individuals primarily associated with the New Wave era of the late 1970s and the 1980s.

New Wave bands and artists include:

A

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

B

• The B-52's
• B-Movie
• Baltimora
• Bananarama
• Honey Bane
• The Bangles
• Toni Basil
• Berlin
• The Bible
• Big Audio Dynamite
• Big Country
• Bijelo Dugme
• Black
• Blancmange
• Blondie
• The Blow Monkeys
• Blue in Heaven
• Blue Zoo
• The Bolshoi
• The Bongos
• Book Of Love
• The Boomtown Rats
• Bourgeois Tagg
• David Bowie
• Bow Wow Wow
• The Boys Next Door
• Bram Tchaikovsky
• British Electric Foundation
• Bronski Beat
• The Buggles
• The Busboys

C

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

D

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

E-F

• Easy Image
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• The English Beat
• Dave Edmunds
• Erasure
• Eurogliders
• Eurythmics
• Eyeless in Gaza
• The Expression
• The Expressos
• Fad Gadget
• Falco
• Fashion
• Fay Ray
• Fiat Lux
• Fiction Factory
• Fine Young Cannibals
• Fingerprintz
• Fischer-Z
• The Fixx
• Flash and the Pan
• The Fleshtones
• The Flirts
• A Flock of Seagulls
• The Flying Lizards
• John Foxx
• 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 Go-Go's
• The Godfathers
• Peter Godwin
• Nina Hagen
• Haircut 100
• Hardware
• Debbie Harry
• Haysi Fantayzee
• Robert Hazard
• Murray Head
• Heaven 17
• The Hitmen
• Hohokam
• Holly and the Italians
• Hoodoo Gurus
• The Hooters
• Human League
• Human Sexual Response
• Norman Iceberg
• Icehouse
• Icicle Works
• Billy Idol
• Ignatious Jones
• Images in Vogue
• Indochine
• Information Society
• insane picnic
• INXS

J

• JoBoxers
• Joe Jackson
• The Jam
• Philip Jap
• Japan
• Grace Jones
• Howard Jones
• H20

K

• Kajagoogoo
• Jane Kennaway and Strange Behaviour
• Nik Kershaw
• King
• Kink Ador
• Kino
• Kissing the Pink
• The Knack
• The Korgis
• K.U.K.L.
• Kids in the Kitchen

L-M

• Annabel Lamb
• Landscape
• Cyndi Lauper
• Level 42
• The Lover Speaks
• Lene Lovich
• Leisure Process
• Lisa Lougheed
• Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
• London
• The Lotus Eaters
• Nick Lowe
• M
• Kirsty MacColl
• Madness
• Magazine
• Mainframe
• Maldroid
• Marilyn
• Robert Marlow
• Martha and the Muffins
• Men at Work
• Men Without Hats
• Metropolis
• Mi-Sex
• Midnight Oil
• Ministry
• Minor Detail
• Missing Persons
• Modern English
• The Metronomes
• The Modern Lovers
• The Monochrome Set
• The Monroes
• The Motels
• The Mundanes

N-O

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

P

• Graham Parker
• Robert X. Patriot and the White Devil Conspiracy
• The Payolas
• Paul Young
• Pearl Harbour and the Explosions
• Pet Shop Boys
• Pink Turns Blue
• The Planets
• Plastic Bertrand
• Plastics
• Platinum Blonde
• The Plimsouls
• The Polecats
• The Police
• Polyrock
• Prefab Sprout
• The Pretenders
• Prince (Dirty Mind, Controversy)
• The Producers
• Propaganda
• The Psychedelic Furs
• Pukka Orchestra
• Positive Noise

Q-R

• Q-Feel
• Rational Youth
• Real Life
• Red Flag
• Red Rockers
• Re-Flex
• The Rezillos - (later Revillos)
• Stan Ridgway
• Rockpile
• Roman Holliday
• The Romantics
• Romeo Void
• The Room
• Rough Trade

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
• Slow Children
• Soda Stereo
• Soft Cell
• Belouis Some
• The Sound
• Spandau Ballet
• Sparks
• Spasmodic Caress
• The Specials
• Split Enz
• Spoons
• Squeeze
• theSTART
• Strange Advance
• The Stranglers
• The Stray Cats
• The Style Council
• Suburban Lawns
• Strawberry Switchblade

T

• Taco
• Talking Heads
• Talk Talk
• The Teardrop Explodes
• Tears for Fears
• Tex and the Horseheads
• The Mood
• The Outfield
• The Rayguns
• The Rescue (band)
• The The
• The Twins (band)
• Then Jerico
• Theo & the Skyscrapers
• Thompson Twins
• Three Johns
• Til Tuesday
• Tom Tom Club
• Tommy Tutone
• Toto Coelo
• T'Pau
• The Tourists
• Toyah
• Trans-X
• Translator
• Trees
• Trio
• Tru Fax & the Insaniacs
• Tuxedomoon
• TV21

U-V

• Ultravox
• The Undertones
• The Vapors
• Vicious Pink
• Violent Femmes
• Visage
• Vitamin Z
• Vegas

W

• The Waitresses
• The Wake
• Wall of Voodoo
• Wang Chung
• Was (Not Was)
• The Waterboys
• When In Rome
• White China
• The Wild Swans
• Kim Wilde
• Pat Wilson
• Wire
• Wire Train
• The Weather Prophets

X-Z (Þ)

• Xmal Deutschland
• XTC
• Yazoo
• Yello
• Þeyr

See also

• List of post-punk bands