new wave

adjective3

1. •
   Representing the latest and most advanced style.

   • That girl is pretty wild now / The girl's a super freak / The kind of girl you read about / In new wave magazines — 1981
2. •
   Of or pertaining to the New Wave
3. •
   Innovative and ground-breaking

noun1

1. •
   An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility.

   • New York to east California / There's a new wave coming, I warn ya — 1981

noun1

1. •
   Any of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge.