List of post-punk bands

This is a list of post-punk bands, both from the original post-punk as from the post-punk revival.

Post-punk was a musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock "explosion".

The post-punk revival is a movement in modern rock music, being part of the larger indie/garage rock, punk, and dance genres. The post-punk revival draws in part on the conventions of the original post-punk sound from the early 1980s, yet is also an extension of and reaction to the more pop-oriented punk music of the 1990s. The movement began and is most prominent in English speaking countries such as the US, the UK, and Australia, and has been especially tied to the New York City music scene.

Post-punk influences

Bands that influenced the original post-punk movement.

• David Bowie - For both his early Ziggy Stardust work and experimental Berlin-era output, notably Low.
• Can
• Brian Eno - For his groundbreaking art rock, including the albums Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), and Another Green World.
• Kraftwerk
• Roxy Music
• Neu!
• Iggy Pop - For The Idiot and Lust for Life.
• Television
• Throbbing Gristle
• Scott Walker - For his atmospheric single "The Electrician".
• Robert Wyatt
• The Residents

Post-punk bands (1980s era)

Bands from the first wave of post-punk, along with those significantly influenced by the genre.

• 23 Skidoo
• A Certain Ratio
• Animotion
• Au Pairs
• Automatic Pilot
• Bauhaus - Considered progenitors and members of the massively influential goth rock style.
• Big Black
• The Blasters
• The Buggles
• BIG fLAME
• The Birthday Party
• Blue Orchids
• The Boredoms
• Cabaret Voltaire - Considered early pioneers of industrial music specifically, and electronic music in general.
• The Chameleons
• The Comsat Angels
• Crass - Adhering so strongly to the punk ethos, regularly eschewing popularity and accessibility, Crass cannot be easily contained by the label of punk. Their music, while bearing little in common with other post-punk bands, was still an unwavering attempt to take punk music to the next level.
• Corky Carroll
• The Cranberries - To the faithful dèparted
• Crispy Ambulance
• Cultural Amnesia
• The Cure - Like Bauhaus, The Cure are considered progenitors and members of the goth rock style.
• Debbie Deb
• Dead Can Dance
• Death in June
• Delta 5
• Depeche Mode
• Devo - Predated and then coexisted with the post-punk movement, anticipating its integration of krautrock and dance into punk, though with somewhat more lighthearted consequences.
• The Durutti Column
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• Eddie & the Hot Rods
• Einstürzende Neubauten
• Essential Logic
• Factrix
• Fischer-Z
• Fad Gadget
• The Fall - The Fall's music changes drastically in "phases" designed by rotating band membership. However, their music has remained consistently post-punk throughout their career.
• The Feelies
• The Fire Engines
• fIREHOSE
• Flying Lizards
• Foetus
• Gang of Four
• Gene Loves Jezebel
• The Human League - Perhaps better known for their more accessible music, which is described as New Wave, and not post-punk.
• the insane picnic
• Ism
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Josef K
• Joy Division - While not really connected with the Gothic rock scene, many acknowledge Joy Division to be the first Gothic rock band.
• Killing Joke
• The Legendary Pink Dots
• The Lemon Kittens
• Magazine - Straddling the line between post-punk and New Wave, Magazine was formed by the remains of early punk legends Buzzcocks.
• The Mekons
• The Minutemen
• Mission of Burma
• Modern English
• Monte Cazazza
• New Order
• The Normal
• Orange Juice
• John Otway
• Pere Ubu
• Pink Turns Blue
• Poison Girls
• The Pop Group
• Psychedelic Furs
• Public Image Ltd. - This abrasive group was formed by Johnny Rotten, vocalist of the Sex Pistols, after the Pistols' disbanding.
• The Raincoats
• Red Rockers
• Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• Scritti Politti
• Section 25
• Siouxsie & the Banshees
• The Slits
• The Smiths
• Sonic Youth
• The Sound
• Spasmodic Caress
• The Stranglers
• Subway Sect
• Suicide - Contemporaries of Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide are considered early architects of industrial music.
• The Surf Punks
• Swans
• Swell Maps
• Talking Heads
• The Teardrop Explodes
• The The
• This Heat
• Tuxedomoon - Making music that, ostensibly, was intended for various independent film projects, Tuxedomoon's albums are often categorized as film music.
• Ultravox
• U2
• The Wake
• Winston Tong
• Wire - Starting as a first wave British punk group, Wire's sound quickly grew to encompass post-punk and was instrumental in the development of synth-pop and techno music.
• Young Marble Giants

Post-punk revival bands

Bands from the second wave of post-punk along with those significantly influenced by the genre.

• !!!
• Apartment
• Arctic Monkeys
• Art Brut
• The Æffect
• Battle
• Be Your Own Pet
• Beautiful Skin
• The Blood Arm
• The Black Freighter
• British Sea Power
• Dance Disaster Movement
• The Chalets
• Clinic
• The Coral
• The Cosmic Kick Starts
• The Cribs
• The Dead 60's
• Death From Above 1979
• The Departure
• The Dresden Dolls
• Editors
• Electric Six
• The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
• Erase Errata
• The Faint
• Franz Ferdinand
• The Futureheads
• Hard-Fi
• Ikara Colt
• Interpol
• The Kooks
• Lansing-Dreiden
• LCD Soundsystem
• Le Tigre
• Les Savy Fav
• Liars
• The Long Blondes
• The Longcut
• Mannequin Depressives
• Metric
• Maximo Park
• Moving Units
• My Chemical Romance
• The Ordinary Boys
• Pink Grease
• Q and Not U
• Radio 4
• The Rakes
• The Richmond Sluts
• SADS
• Selfish Cunt
• Snap! Crakk!
• The Strokes
• The Subways
• The Unicorns
• Tom Vek
• VHS or Beta
• We Are Scientists
• Weakerthans
• White Rose Movement
• Yeti