Forgotten early New Wave...

Since I was in Boston during that period, definitely:

O Positive
Tribe
Scruffy the Cat

Club scene in Beantown was amazing.

David

The Shoes are really great,have all their recordings.They always to me sounded like The Cars.

i'm not sure the shoes are new wave--they're largely synth-free power poppers (who needs labels?)--but they really were great. surprisingly, they have a brand new record, ignition, which sounds almost as good as their classic 70s stuff. in the same underrecognized realm, check out the records, off broadway and bram tchiakovsky.