New Rave
New rave is a mid-2000s British style that mixed indie rock with rave-inspired synthesizers, dance beats and neon-colored visuals.
The music press, especially the NME, used the name around 2006 to 2008 for bands who added rave-style synthesizers and fast, punky dance rhythms to guitar songs, along with glow sticks and fluorescent clothes at gigs. The name plays on new wave. It is closely related to dance-punk and alternative dance, and it faded quickly as a scene.
Artists it is known for: Klaxons, Hadouken!, New Young Pony Club.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, mid-2000s
- Also called
- nu rave
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have new rave among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
New Rave artists
Crystal Castles
Justice
LCD Soundsystem
The Avalanches
The Hellp
Santigold
Phoenix
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
of Montreal
Bloc Party
The new rave artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.