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Back to the Present: 2020s Bands With New Wave Flair
How New Wave’s emotional mechanics survived revival, nostalgia, and genre drift
Feb 10
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Jason D'Orazio
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How Rio Transformed Duran Duran from Cult to Icon
Jun 2, 2025
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Jason D'Orazio
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Countdowns and Synth Sounds: How New Wave Captured the Cold War’s Anxious Pulse
Apr 10, 2025
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Jason D'Orazio
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Apr 24, 2025
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Jason D'Orazio
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Best New Wave Songs of 1979
New Wave comes to the forefront
Feb 5
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Jason D'Orazio
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The Omega A-Ha Moment
How A-Ha perfected restraint, tension, and cinematic scale at the close of new wave
Feb 3
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Jason D'Orazio
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New Wave’s Los Angeles (Sprawl, Surface, Silence)
How Wall of Voodoo, Berlin, and the Motels mapped sprawl, performance, and isolation
Jan 27
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Jason D'Orazio
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Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger Deepdive
Prime Time for Duran Duran
Jan 22
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Jason D'Orazio
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B-52s: Do Call It a Comeback
How loss, experimentation, and selective reinvention powered New Wave’s most unlikely revival
Jan 20
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Jason D'Orazio
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After the Backlash
When New Wave didn’t return as a genre... but survived as a producer’s skill set
Jan 13
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Jason D'Orazio
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Best New Wave Songs of 1978
Punk Meets the Machines
Jan 8
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Jason D'Orazio
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