about New Waver

New Waver is a long-running culture-jamming project based in Melbourne, Australia.

It began in the 80s in the realm of print, with the production of Loser magazine, which ran to five issues and culminated in the anti-novel Diary of a Cold.

The project then moved into music, and since 1990's cassette Middle Class Man has released a large number of albums, contributed to compilations, and played many live shows. The recent stuff is downloadable from the menu on the right.

New Waver's latest album Bohemian Suburb Rhapsody, released in January 2010, tells the story of the Australian inner city and its transformation from slum though boho village to real-estate bonanza.

'New waver' is early-80s slang, more or less, for the demographic that are now called 'hipsters'.

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