Genre: New Wave/Post-Punk Revival
During the late '90s and early 2000s, a rash of bands -- including Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, the Strokes, and the Rapture -- surfaced with clear indebtedness to post-punk and new wave, bearing inspirations like Blondie, Gang of Four, Joy Division, and Wire. While this led journalists and music fans to talk about a post-punk/new wave revival, the movement was really more analogous to a continuum, one that could be traced back as early as the mid-'80s -- (read more)
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