New wave got its start in the late '70s with flinty records by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Joe Jackson, then was ...

When the term first arrived on the pop music scene in the late part of the '70s, new wave was used as a catch-all for music that wasn't quite punk, but it wasn't traditional pop or rock music either.

Ricky Gervais attempted to start a music career. He and pal Bill Macrae released two singles as new-wave duo Seona Dancing in the ’80s. “We got signed on a demo tape, released two records and ...

Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool ...