Editing New wave of new wave

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{{Infobox music genre
| name              = New wave of new wave
| stylistic_origins = * [[Alternative rock]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
* [[post-punk]]
* [[mod revival]]
| cultural_origins  = Early 1990s, [[United Kingdom]]
| derivatives       = [[Post-punk revival]]
}}

The '''new wave of new wave''' ('''NWONW''') was a term coined by [[music journalists]] to describe a subgenre of the British [[alternative rock]] scene in the early 1990s, in which bands displayed [[post-punk]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] influences, particularly from bands such as [[the Clash]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], [[Devo (band)|Devo]], [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]], [[XTC]], [[Wire (band)|Wire]], and [[the Stranglers]].<ref name="Childs">Childs, Peter & Storry, Mike (1999) ''Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture'', Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0-415-14726-2}}, p. 365.</ref> 

==History==
The associated bands generally played guitar-based [[rock music]] often accompanied by [[keyboard instruments|keyboards]]. The movement was short-lived, and several of the bands involved were later linked with the more commercially successful [[Britpop]], which it immediately preceded, and the NWONW was described by [[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' (one of the journalists who first coined the term)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/17/romo-skunk-rock-shroomadelica-music-genres |title=Romo, skunk rock, shroomadelica … the music genres that never made it |last1=Allen |first1=Jeremy|date=17 March 2014 |website=[[theguardian.com]]|access-date=19 March 2014}}</ref> as "Britpop without the good bits".<ref name="Harris">Harris, John (2006) [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/13/electronicmusic.popandrock "The new wave of old rubbish"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 13 October 2006.</ref> The ''[[NME]]'' played a major part in promoting and covering the genre, and promoted the "On" event, which featured many of the bands they had labelled NWONW.<ref name="Larkin">Larkin, Colin (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Oxford University Press.</ref>

==Notable examples==
Record label [[Fierce Panda]]'s first release, ''Shagging in the Streets'', was a tribute to the scene, featuring [[S*M*A*S*H]], [[Done Lying Down]], [[These Animal Men]], and others. Associated bands have included [[Elastica]],<ref name="Childs" /> [[S*M*A*S*H]],<ref name="Childs" /><ref name="Strong" /> [[menswear (band)|Menswear]],<ref name="Wolk">Wolk, Douglas (1995) "Menswear - Nuisance, London", ''[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]'', December 1995.</ref> [[Sleeper (band)|Sleeper]], [[Echobelly]], [[Shed Seven]],<ref name="Strong">Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, {{ISBN|1-84195-335-0}}, p. 965.</ref> [[These Animal Men]],<ref name="Strong" /><ref name="Vazquez">Vazquez, Michael (1995) "These Animal Men - ''(Come On, Join) The High Society'' Review", ''[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]'', May 1995.</ref> and [[Compulsion (band)|Compulsion]].<ref name="Larkin" />

==Legacy==
[[Robert Christgau]] identified the mid-1990s NWONW movement as the peak of a new wave revival that has continued on and off since, stating in 1996, "1994 was the top of a curve we can't be certain we've reached the bottom of".<ref name="Christgau">Christgau, Robert (1996) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/recess-det.php "How to Beat the Law of Averages"], from ''Details'', 1996.</ref>

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