Editing New wave music (section)

==Post-1980s revivals and influence==
===Indie and alternative rock===
{{See also|Post-punk revival}}
[[File:Franz-ferdinand-live-2006-tag.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Ferdinand performing in 2006]]
In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the [[New Romantic]], [[new pop]], and new music genres.<ref name="USNewWave" /><ref name="dissertation"/> Some new wave acts, particularly [[R.E.M.]], maintained new wave's [[Independent record label|indie label]] orientation through most of the 1980s, rejecting potentially more lucrative careers from signing to a major label.<ref name=StJames /> In the UK, new wave "survived through the [[post-punk]] years, but after the turn of the decade found itself overwhelmed by the more outrageous style of the New Romantics."<ref name="UKNewWave" /> In response, many British [[Independent music|indie]] bands adopted "the kind of jangling guitar work that had typified New Wave music",<ref>{{cite web|website=ministryofrock.co.uk|title=Indie and the New Musical Express|last=Nickson|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Nickson|url=https://www.ministryofrock.co.uk/Indie.html|date=25 September 2012|access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref> with the arrival of [[the Smiths]] characterised by the [[music press]] as a "reaction against the opulence/corpulence of nouveau rich New Pop"<ref>{{cite book|first =Simon|last=Reynolds|author-link=Simon Reynolds| title =Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop| chapter=The Smiths: A Eulogy| date=26 September 1987|publisher=Catapult |isbn=978-1-59376-460-9 | chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=H9wREAAAQBAJ&pg=PT61}}</ref> and "part of the move back to guitar-driven music after the keyboard washes of the New Romantics".<ref>{{cite web|website=ministryofrock.co.uk|title=The Smiths Were The Idols of Indie|last=Nickson|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Nickson|url=https://www.ministryofrock.co.uk/the-smiths-were-the-idols-of-indie.html|date=31 July 2010|access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref> In the aftermath of [[grunge]], the British music press launched a campaign to promote the [[new wave of new wave]] that involved overtly punk and new-wave-influenced acts such as [[Elastica]], but it was eclipsed by [[Britpop]], which took influences from both 1960s rock and 1970s punk and new wave.<ref name=EncyclopediaofContemporaryBritishCulture /><ref>{{cite web|website=ministryofrock.co.uk|title=The History of Britpop|last=Nickson|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Nickson|url=https://www.ministryofrock.co.uk/britpop.html|date=11 February 2015|access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref> 

During the 2000s, a number of acts that exploited a diversity of new wave and post-punk influences emerged. These acts were sometimes labeled "New New Wave".<ref name=msnbc>{{cite web|last=Paoletta |first=Michael |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/new-wave-back-hot-new-bands-wbna6031887 |title=New wave is back – in hot new bands |publisher=Today.com |date=17 September 2004 |access-date=15 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/stefani_gwen/artist.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124153746/http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/stefani_gwen/artist.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 November 2005 |title=Gwen Stefani MTV biography |work=Mtv |access-date=15 May 2011}}</ref> According to British music journalist [[Chris Nickson]], Scottish band [[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]] revived both Britpop and the music of the late 1970s "with their New Wave influenced sound".<ref>{{cite web|website=ministryofrock.co.uk|title=Britpop Revival|last=Nickson|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Nickson|url=https://www.ministryofrock.co.uk/BritpopRevival.html|date=29 June 2013|access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref> AllMusic notes the emergence of these acts "led journalists and music fans to talk about a post-punk/new wave revival" while arguing it was "really more analogous to a continuum, one that could be traced back as early as the mid-'80s".<ref name="Revival">[{{AllMusic|class=style|id=new-wave-post-punk-revival-ma0000012020|pure_url=yes}} New Wave/Post Punk Revival] AllMusic</ref>