List of post-punk bands
Post-punk is a musical movement that began at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock "explosion". The styles of music were diverse, but all had an influence from punk rock.[1] The essential period that is most commonly cited as post-punk falls between the years 1977–1984.[2] After 1984, numerous bands continued to release music in this style, but with the advent of alternative rock as a more catch-all term for underground bands in the mid-'80s, they were not always referred to as post-punk.
Post-punk revival is a movement in the 2000s that drew in part on the conventions of the original post-punk sound from the early 1980s, as well as '90s genres such as shoegazing, Britpop, garage revival, and post-hardcore, as well as '80s New Wave. Thematically it is often an extension of and reaction to the more pop-oriented punk music of the 1990s, and has been especially tied to the New York City and London music scenes.
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[edit] Post-punk bands (1977–1984)
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[edit] A
- ABC
- A Certain Ratio
- Adam and the Ants
- A Flock of Seagulls
- The Alarm
- Alien Sex Fiend
- Altered Images
- Alternative TV
- And Also the Trees
- Laurie Anderson
- APB
- The Armoury Show
- Artery
- The Associates
- Au Pairs
- Ausgang
- Automatic Pilot
- Autopsia
- Aztec Camera
[edit] B
- Bauhaus
- The B-52's
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Big Country
- Big Flame
- Big in Japan
- The Birthday Party
- Blue in Heaven
- Blue Orchids
- Blurt
- B-Movie
- The Bolshoi
- Boots for Dancing
- The Boys Next Door
- Breathless
- Bush Tetras
[edit] C
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Certain General
- The Chameleons
- James Chance & The Contortions
- The Chills
- Christian Death
- Choir Invisible
- Chrome
- The Church
- Cindytalk
- Circus Mort
- Clan of Xymox
- Classix Nouveaux
- Clock DVA
- Cocteau Twins
- Coil
- The Comsat Angels
- Controlled Bleeding
- Cool It Reba
- The Creatures
- Crime and the City Solution
- Crispy Ambulance
- The Cult
- Cultural Amnesia
- Culturcide
- The Cure
[edit] D
- Da!
- Dalek I
- The Dancing Did
- Danse Society
- Danielle Dax
- The dBs
- Dead Can Dance
- Dead or Alive
- Death Cult
- Death In June
- Décima Víctima
- Delta 5
- Department S
- De Press
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux
- Desperate Bicycles
- Devo
- Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
- Diaframma
- The Diagram Brothers
- Die Haut
- Disciplina Kičme
- Dislocation Dance
- The Divinyls
- Dobri Isak
- Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bića
- The Durutti Column
- Du Du A
[edit] E
- Echo & the Bunnymen
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Ekatarina Velika
- Električni Orgazam
- The Embarrassment
- Essential Logic
- ESG
- Eurythmics
- Everything but the Girl
- The Ex
- Eyeless in Gaza
[edit] F
- Factrix
- Fad Gadget
- Faith Global
- The Fall
- Fàshiön Music
- The Feelies
- Felt
- The Fire Engines
- Fischer-Z
- The Flesh Eaters
- Flesh for Lulu
- Flipper
- Flying Lizards
- Foetus
- A Formal Sigh
- John Foxx
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- Front 242
[edit] G
- Gang of Four
- Gene Loves Jezebel
- Get Smart!
- Girls at Our Best!
- The Gits
- Glaxo Babies
- God's Gift
- The Glove
- Grauzone
- The Gun Club
- Ghenkhis Khan
[edit] H
[edit] I
[edit] J
[edit] K
- Katarina II
- KaS Product
- Killing Joke
- Kino
- Kirsty MacColl
- Kirlian Camera
- Klaus Nomi
- Kleenex
- Kommunity FK
- Konk
- Kozmetika
- KUKL
[edit] L
- La Strada
- The Laughing Clowns
- The Leather Nun
- The Legendary Pink Dots
- Legião Urbana
- The Lemon Kittens
- LiLiPUT
- Liquid Liquid
- Live Skull
- The Lords of the New Church
- Lori and the Chameleons
- Lene Lovich
- Lowlife
- Ludus
- Luna
- Lydia Lunch
[edit] M
- Magazine
- Malaria!
- Mars
- Mass
- The March Violets
- Maximum Joy
- Medium Medium
- The Mekons
- The Membranes
- Métal Urbain
- Minimal Compact
- Minny Pops
- Miracle Legion
- Mission of Burma
- mittageisen
- The Mob
- Modern English
- Modern Eon
- Moev
- The Monochrome Set
- Monte Cazazza
- The Mothmen
- Musta Paraati
[edit] N
- The Names
- Nautilus Pompilius
- Nervous Gender
- Neu Electrikk
- New Order
- New Model Army
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Nightmares in Wax
- The Nightingales
- The Normal
[edit] O
[edit] P
- Pale Fountains
- The Passage
- The Passions
- Paraf
- Pekinška Patka
- Pere Ubu
- Pigbag
- Pink Military
- Play Dead
- Poison Girls
- Polyrock
- The Pop Group
- Prefab Sprout
- The Prefects
- The Pretenders
- Profili Profili
- The Psychedelic Furs
- Psychic TV
- Public Image Ltd
- Pulp
- Pylon
[edit] R
- The Raincoats
- Redex
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- Red Zebra
- Rema-Rema
- Rikki And The Last Days Of Earth
- Rip Rig + Panic
- Ritual
- Romeo Void
- The Room
- Rowland S. Howard
[edit] S
- Sad Lovers & Giants
- Savage Republic
- Scars
- Scattered Order
- The Scientists
- The Screamers
- Screen 3
- Scritti Politti
- Section 25
- Severed Heads
- Sex Gang Children
- Shriekback
- Siekiera
- Simple Minds
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- The Sisters of Mercy
- Skeletal Family
- Skinny Puppy
- The Slits
- The Smiths
- The Soft Boys
- Soft Cell
- Sonic Youth
- Sort Sol
- The Sound
- Southern Death Cult
- Spasmodique
- Spasmodic Caress
- Split Enz
- Spear of Destiny
- Spizzenergi
- Squeeze
- Storm Bugs
- Stripey Zebras
- The Stranglers
- Strawberry Switchblade
- Suburban Lawns
- Subway Sect
- Sumo
- Suicide
- Swans
- Swell Maps
- Šarlo Akrobata
[edit] T
- Talking Heads
- The Teardrop Explodes
- The Teardrops
- Television
- Television Personalities
- Theatre of Hate
- The The
- Theoretical Girls
- This Heat
- This Mortal Coil
- The Three Johns
- Throbbing Gristle
- Timbuk 3
- Titãs
- Toiling Midgets
- Tones on Tail
- Winston Tong
- Translator
- Trisomie 21
- Tubeway Army
- Tupelo Soul
- Tuxedomoon
[edit] U
[edit] V
[edit] W
- The Wake
- Wah! (Heat, The Mighty, etc.)
- Wall of Voodoo
- The Waterboys
- Whitehouse
- The Wild Swans
- The Wipers
- Wire
- Wire Train
- Wolfgang Press
- The Woodentops
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[edit] Y
[edit] Z
[edit] Post-punk-influenced bands (1984–mid 1990s)
Bands that appeared soon after the initial movement, yet carried the same aesthetic styles and influences. Many of these bands would cross over into alternative rock, shoegaze, post-hardcore, post-industrial music, coldwave, and twee pop.
- Agata Kristi
- Betty
- Big Black
- Blonde Redhead
- The Boredoms
- Close Lobsters
- Cranes
- Curve
- Disco Inferno
- Dog Faced Hermans
- Drive Like Jehu
- Elastica
- Faith No More
- Fields of the Nephilim
- For Against
- Front Line Assembly
- Goribor
- Half Life Half Death
- Half Man Half Biscuit
- His Name Is Alive
- The House of Love
- The Innocence Mission
- The Invisibles
- James
- Jane's Addiction
- The Jazz Butcher
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- The June Brides
- Kitchens of Distinction
- Lippy's Garden
- Little Nemo
- Love and Rockets
- Mary Goes Round
- Mazzy Star
- Medicine
- The Mighty Lemon Drops
- The Mission UK
- My Bloody Valentine
- Nine Inch Nails
- The Ocean Blue
- Pink Turns Blue
- Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Presing
- Psi-Com
- Radiohead
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Scratch Acid
- Slowdive
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Snake Corps
- Spacemen 3
- Trivalia
- The Stone Roses
- The Sugarcubes
- Supernaut
- Ultra Vivid Scene
- Uzi
- The Wedding Present
[edit] Post-punk revival bands (Late 1990s–2000s)
[edit] See also
- List of dance-punk artists
- List of gothic rock bands
- List of New Wave bands and artists
- List of post-hardcore bands
- List of punk bands
[edit] References
- ^ "Post-punk". Allmusic. Retrieved on 15 November 2009.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21570-6.