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Video of the Day: The Vapors

By Stewart Mason

Waiting for the weekend indeed

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Memory Motel: The Other Thomas Dolby

By Jim Allen

One-man band that should have made synth-pop history.

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Peter Blake reconstructs Sgt. Pepper sleeve

By Stewart Mason

80th birthday present to himself

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Memory Motel: Tapping Into Telex

By Jim Allen

Satirical Belgian synth-poppers deconstructed rock classics.

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Music Feature

Memory Motel: The Secret Folkie Pasts of New Wave Heroes

By Jim Allen

The acoustic-strumming past of New Wave pioneers.

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Critical 10: Overlooked Irish Artists

By Stewart Mason

10 bands well-suited for your St. Paddy playlist.

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Music Feature

Memory Motel: Talking Heads Grow Up In Public

By Jim Allen

New Wave pioneers caught in flux.

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32 Years Ago: Elvis Costello Gets Happy!!

By Stewart Mason

New wave icon rediscovers soul.

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30 Years Ago: XTC release English Settlement

By Stewart Mason

Angular new wavers go pastoral.

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BBC Radio 4 streams doc about new wave graphic legend Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

Discovering the man behind the new wave myth.

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Music Review

Life in the Loading Bay

Shriekback

U.K. post-punks’ late-career peak.

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Music Profile

Martin Rushent

By Jim Allen

Visionary U.K. New Wave auteur.

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Move Like This

The Cars

Will the good times ever roll again?

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Labour Of Lust

Nick Lowe

Basher's second album, reissued at last.

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Get Happy!!

Elvis Costello

Costello finds his soul.

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Peter Gabriel (Melt)

Peter Gabriel

A perfect balance of experimentation and melody.

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By the Hedge

Minks (band)

Brooklynites dream of Manchester and Liverpool.

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The Brutal Wave

Frank (Just Frank)

'80s goth-pop gets a mod makeover.

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All You Need Is Now

Duran Duran

The follow-up to Rio, 28 years later.

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Gemini

Wild Nothing

Late '80s bedroom pop for a new generation.

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Forget

Twin Shadow

The evolution of chillwave.

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It’s the Same Old Song: Tributes to the Motown Sound

By Stewart Mason

Almost as soon as there was an identifiable Motown sound,… >>

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Stereolab: Friends and Relations

By Stewart Mason

One of the most influential bands of the 1990s, Stereolab… >>

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Squeeze

By Stewart Mason

The post-punk era's finest songwriting team.

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Music Review

Something for Everybody

Devo

New wave pioneers back on track decades later.

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No Great Lost: Songs, 1979-1985

Kevin Dunn

Lost new wave classic makes a welcome comeback.

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The Suburbs

By Stewart Mason

The first link between dance-pop and hardcore.

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This Is Happening

LCD Soundsystem

James Murphy might be out of ideas.

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Summer Songs For Winter Nights

By Stewart Mason

Nothing warms the chill of a midwinter night like thoughts… >>

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Back To The Egg

Wings

An ex-Beatle's response to new wave.

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The Call

By Jim Allen

America's answer to U2 and Simple Minds.

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Critical New Romantics: All the Young Dudes

By Jim Allen

In the early '80s, a flamboyant, fashion-conscious crop of bands… >>

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Critical Athens: Songs of the South

By Jim Allen

There must have been something in the Southern air that… >>

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Murmur

R.E.M.

College rock's starting point.

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This Is Still It

The Method Actors

Athens, Georgia's masters of minimalism.

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Disintegration

The Cure

Goth icons' career high point.

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Rage In Eden

Ultravox

A darker, more intense follow-up to its airy, elegant predecessor

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Vienna (Ultravox)

Ultravox

High-water mark for synth-pop, Futurism, and the New Romantic movement

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Gary Numan

By Jim Allen

New Wave’s first synthesizer hero.

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This Year's Model

Elvis Costello

The first of several masterpieces.

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Culture Profile

Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

London ad man turns lysergic light-show hippie, then becomes the… >>

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Duran Duran

By Jim Allen

The original New Romantics.

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Malcolm Garrett

By Stewart Mason

Designed era-defining graphics for new wave and new romantic acts… >>

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Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

One of the most important figures in punk's development.

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The Cure

By T. Cole Rachel

Under the enormous hair and smeared lipstick lies a masterful… >>

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Swoon

Prefab Sprout

A tremendously gifted songwriter gets all of his quirks out… >>

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The Golden Age of Wireless

Thomas Dolby

Possibly the finest synth pop album ever made, simultaneously futuristic… >>

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Thomas Dolby

Often incorrectly thought of as a one-hit wonder, Thomas Dolby… >>

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Talk Talk

By Ryan Reed

A career built out of defying expectations.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

By T. Cole Rachel

No one can stir the hearts of gothy teenagers like… >>

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R. Stevie Moore

By Stewart Mason

From DIY upstart to lo-fi's Grand Master.

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