New Wave

Men and Volts
Stiff Little Fingers
The Balancing Act
Charlie Pickett and the Eggs
The Tragically Hip
The Flies
Bad Checks
Masters of Reality
Ed Kuepper
American Music Club
The David Roter Method
The Ophelias
The Psychotics
The Bobs
The Godfathers
Opal
All
Konk
Blurt
Hex
Nena
Falco
Adolescents
Chain Gang
Michael Ward
Tête Noires
The Fartz
The Beat
Flamin' Oh's
Norman Salant
The Ordinaires
The Nobodys
Fish and Roses
The Neats
Wipers
Fetchin Bones
Toiling Midgets
K-Martians
Snatch
The Squalls
Lifeboat
Blue Orchids
Screaming Trees
The Plugz
Rockin' Shapes
Cristina
LESR
MDK
New Christs
Mudhoney
Texas Instruments
Death of Samantha
The Fibonaccis
Slickee Boys
Volume Unit
Ut
Gibson Bros.
Missing Foundation
Scruffy the Cat
Tim Lee
Treat Her Right
Holly and the Italians
God's Little Monkeys
The Verlaines
We Are Going To Eat You
Whooping Cranes
The Three-D Invisibles
The Cruzados
The Dance
The Proclaimers
Altered Images
Tall Dwarfs
Big Dipper
Flaming Lips
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
Intensive Care
The Outnumbered
The Misfits
Shockabilly
Rip Rig and Panic
Pigbag
The Necessaries
The Lime Spiders
Swell Maps
Chrome
The Raybeats
The Wonder Stuff
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Pursuit of Happiness
China Crisis
A Certain Ratio
The Hard-Ons
Spanic Boys
Mary's Danish
Durutti Column
House of Freaks
The Christians
The Saints
The Nails
Liquid Liquid
Icehouse
The Primitives
Nip Drivers
JoBoxers
Eat
The Fire Engines
The Woolfe Gang
Bullet LaVolta
ESG
Bongo Bass and Bob
Henry Rollins
Alphaville
Live Skull
The Silencers
Peter Himmelman
Velvet Elvis
Died Pretty
Band of Susans
Vic Godard & the Subway Sect
Phantom Limbs
Hollywood Beyond
The Chameleons
Saccharine Trust
The Nils
Drivin' n' Cryin'
The Side Effects
Skinny Puppy
Velveteen
Christmas
Treva Spontaine
Gaye Bikers on Acid
Social Distortion
Talk Talk
The Blow Monkeys
Squirrel Bait
Felt
Voice Farm
A.R. Kane
Shriekback
The Milkshakes
The Neighborhoods
The Pop Group
The Men They Couldn't Hang
The Buck Pets
Delta 5
Guadalcanal Diary
Alfonia Tims and the Flying Tigers
Antietam
The Magnolias
Girls at Our Best
Everything but the Girl
The Lilac Time
Gene Loves Jezebel
Swing Out Sister
The True Believers
The Drongos
LMNOP
Method Actors
Salem 66
Das Damen
Josie Cotton
Big Pig
Deja Voodoo
Crime and the City Solution
Comateens
Tirez Tirez
Nitzer Ebb
Carmel
The Fuzztones
Adele Bertei
The Humans
Los Microwaves
Los Illegals
Hayzi Fantayzee
Malaria!
The Swimming Pool Q's
Face to Face
Danny Wilson
The Shaggs
Skafish
24-7 Spyz
Urban Verbs
Rifle Sport
Ruts DC
The Exploited
Frightwig
The Payola$
Wire Train
The Raunch Hands
Foetus
November Group
Modern English
Hunters and Collectors
Fashion
Personal Effects
Tav Falco's Panther Burns
Book of Love
Dead or Alive
Armand Schaubroeck
Oil Tasters

Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, 1990

Meltdown

Compilations