History of New Wave

**Special sections**
Rock movements
Historic concerts
Important people

**Rock ages**
Hard Rock
The beginning
New Wave
Jazz Rock
Pop Rock

**Rock artists**
Van der Graaf Genera
Presidents of the Un
Telephone
Dead Kennedys
Baez, Joan

**Rock albums**
The Clash
Made in Japan
Bigger Faster Better
Dark side of the Moo
Seasons End

New Wave

The calmer side of the Punk movement.

The Punk movement, seperated into two styles, the Hard core, with groups such as Crass and the New Wave side.
A dose of electronic instruments began to appear with drum machines and synths. Joy division and the Cure took the lead with dark melodies and poetic lyrics.

New Wave 1981-
New wave-1980

Featured artists and groups from this era

Cure : Bringing the New wave scene to Pop world
Depeche Mode :
Devo : Are we not men?
Gloria Mundi, Sic ... :
Japan :
Psychodelic Furs : They showed that pop music could be sleazy and dangerous.
Simple Minds : One of the few New wave bands to have an international and long career
Talking Heads : Songs as Psycho Killer were fantastic
Teardrops Explode :

Featured albums from this era

HARDCORE vol 1 & 2 : The future

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