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:
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- The B-52's
- B-Movie
- Baltimora
- Bananarama
- Honey Bane
- The Bangles
- Toni Basil
- Berlin
- The Bible
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Big Country
- Bijelo Dugme
- Billy Joel
- 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
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- 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
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E-F
- Easy Image
- Echo & the Bunnymen
- The English Beat
- Dave Edmunds
- The Epoxies
- 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
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- B. B. Gabor
- Gang of Four
- Gary Numan
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- The Klaxons