Definition of "new-wave" []

• Of or pertaining to the New Wave (adjective)
• Innovative and ground-breaking (adjective)

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• "Morgan is a techno/disco/new-wave producer and reluctant (albeit continuously employed) DJ with almost no knowledge of the Top 40 stuff that the kids are into (and what he does know he tends to loathe)."
• "The Swedish group has swelled in slow-motion over time, landing a song in the Sofia Coppola movie " Marie Antoinette " in 2006 and garnering good notices for a 2010 album called "Clinging to a Scheme," which shuffles through moody new-wave melodies in a homey, rumpled manner."
• "But they have a catalog as ageless as frontman Ric Ocasek's wife, Paulina Porizkova, and their streamlined hits expertly combining garage-rock and bubblegum pop continue to cruise around the airwaves decades after defining new-wave radio as well as the nascent days of MTV."