New musick

New musick is a loosely defined style of music and series of articles published in the late 1970s by the British magazine Sounds. New musick was originally coined after a meeting organized by Sounds editor Alan Lewis involving music journalists Jane Suck, Sandy Robertson and Jon Savage in October 1977. The meeting resulted in the group deciding to use "New Musick" as a marketing term for issues in November and December 1977, similar to "new wave", which had previously been used for a series of Sounds articles entitled "Images of the New Wave". The term has been described by Savage as an early label for "post-punk" as well as a subsection of the genre.

New musick was used as a term to describe several experimental, avant-garde and progressive developments being made in punk rock. Drawing influences from disco, dub, reggae, krautrock and electronic music, particularly the use of synthesizers. In November 1977, Sounds published their first issue on new musick which included editorials by Jane Suck and Jon Savage. Writers Simon Reynolds, David Buckley, David Wilkinson, Mimi Haddon and Theo Cateforis retrospectively cited Savage's editorial as the starting point for "post-punk" as a musical genre. The editorial was followed by several new musick articles by other Sounds writers, including Suck, Robertson, Vivien Goldman, Davitt Sigerson, Dave Fudger and Steven Lavers.

The British press quickly adopted the label which sparked ideological conflicts among music critics and the British punk scene regarding new musick undermining the authenticity of the punk ideology. Much of the pushback was rooted in the strong hostility the punk scene held toward electronic music, disco, art and progressive rock, resulting in the scene fracturing into several distinct categories such as "power pop", "mod renewal", "futurist", and "new punk" (or "real punk"). By the end of the decade, new musick was replaced by "new wave" and "post-punk" interchangeably in the UK.