List of post-punk bands

The following is a 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 movement.^[1] The essential period that is most commonly cited as post-punk falls between 1978 and 1984.^[2][3]

Contents
0–9 · A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z

0–9

• 23 Skidoo^[4][5]

A

• Adam and the Ants^[6]
• The Alarm^[7][8]
• ...And the Native Hipsters^[9]
• The Art Attacks^[10]
• Artery^[11]
• Associates^[12]
• Au Pairs^[13]
• Aztec Camera^[14][15]

B

• The B-52's^[16]
• The Batfish Boys^[17]
• Bauhaus^[6][18]
• Bhopal Stiffs^[19]
• Big Black^[20][21]
• The Birthday Party^[6][22][23]
• The Blackouts^[24]
• Blam Blam Blam^[25]
• Blue Orchids^[26]
• Blyth Power^[27]
• Bush Tetras^[28]

C

• Cabaret Voltaire^[29]
• Capital Inicial^[30]
• Cardiacs^[31]
• A Certain Ratio^[32][33]
• The Chameleons^[34]
• James Chance and the Contortions^[2]
• The Chills^[35]
• Circus Mort^[36]
• The Clash^[37]
• The Clean^[38]
• Clock DVA^[39]
• Cocteau Twins^[40]
• The Comsat Angels^[41]
• Crisis^[42]
• The Cult^[43][44]
• The Cure^{[6][40][45][46]}

D

• DA!^[47]
• Dalek I Love You^[48]
• Damien Done^[49]
• Dead Can Dance^[40]
• Dead Tooth^[50]
• The Deep Freeze Mice^[51]
• The Del-Byzanteens^[52]
• Delta 5^[53][54]
• Depeche Mode^[55]
• Desperate Bicycles^[56]
• Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)^[57]
• Devo^[6][58][59]
• Dinosaur Jr.^[60]
• Do-Re-Mi^[61]
• The Dream Syndicate^[62][63]
• The Durutti Column^[64]

E

• Echo & the Bunnymen^[6][65]
• ESG^[66]
• Essential Logic^[67]
• Eurogliders^[68]
• The Ex^[69]
• Eyeless in Gaza^[70]

F

• Factrix^[71]
• Faith No More^[72][73]
• The Fall^[6][32]
• Family Fodder^[74]
• The Feelies^[75][76][77]
• Felt^[78]
• The Fire Engines^[79]
• Flipper^[80]
• The Flying Lizards^[81]
• For Against^[82]
• Fra Lippo Lippi (early work)^[83]
• Paula Frazer^[84]
• Frightwig^[85]

G

• Gang of Four^{[2][6][86][87][88][89]}
• Gene Loves Jezebel^[90]
• Girls at Our Best!^[91]
• Glaxo Babies^[92]
• Green River^[93]
• The Gun Club^{[94][95][96][97]}

H

• Half Man Half Biscuit^[98]
• Happy Mondays^[99]
• Heaven 17^[100]
• High Vis^[101]
• The Higsons^[102]
• The Human League^[103]
• Hüsker Dü^[104][105]

I

• I'm So Hollow^[106]
• In Camera^[107]
• Idles^[108]

J

• The Jam^[109]
• Japan^[110]
• The Jesus Lizard^[111]
• The Jesus and Mary Chain^[112][113]
• Josef K^[114]
• Joy Division^{[6][40][115][116][117][118]}

K

• Killing Joke^[119][120]
• Kino^[121]

L

• Laughing Clowns^[122]
• LiLiPUT^[123]
• The Lords of the New Church^[124]
• Love and Rockets^[6][18]
• Lowlife^[125]
• Ludus^[126]

M

• Magazine^{[127][103][128]}
• Maximum Joy^[129]
• Meat Puppets^[130]
• The Mekons^[6]
• Melvins^[131]
• The Membranes^[132]
• The Method Actors^[133]
• Midnight Oil (early work)^[134]
• Minimal Compact^[135]
• Minny Pops^[136]
• Mission of Burma^[137][138]
• Mo-dettes^[139]
• Models^[140]
• Modern English^[141]
• Modern Eon^[142]
• Molchat Doma^[143][144]
• The Monochrome Set^[145]
• Motorama^[146]

N

• Naked Raygun^[20][147]
• The Names^[148]
• New Model Army^[149]
• New Order^[6][40]
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds^[150]
• The Nightingales^[151]
• Nina Hagen^[152]
• No Devotion^[153]

O

• The Opposition^[154]
• Orange Juice^[1][155]

P

• Palais Schaumburg^[156]
• Palm Ghosts^[157]
• The Passage^[158]
• The Passions^[159]
• Pel Mel^[3]
• Pere Ubu^[6][160]
• Phantom Tollbooth^[161]
• Pigbag^[32][162]
• Pink Military^[163]
• The Pogues^[164]
• The Police^[165][166]
• The Pop Group^{[6][4][127][167][168]}
• Primitive Calculators^[3]
• The Proclaimers^[169]
• The Psychedelic Furs^[170]
• Public Image Ltd^{[127][171][172]}
• Pylon^[173]

R

• The Raincoats^[160]
• Rank and File^[174]
• Retsepti^[175][176]
• Red Lorry Yellow Lorry^[177]
• Rema-Rema^[178]
• R.E.M.^[179]
• The Residents^[180]
• Rip Rig + Panic^[181][182]
• Romeo Void^[183]

S

• Sad Lovers & Giants^[184]
• Savage Republic^[185]
• The Scientists^[186]
• Scratch Acid^[111]
• Scritti Politti^[115][187]
• Section 25^[188]
• Sex Gang Children^[189][190]
• Sielun Veljet^[191]
• Simple Minds^[192]
• Siouxsie and the Banshees^[6][40][46]
• The Sisters of Mercy^[193]
• Skeletal Family
• The Sleepers^[194]
• The Slits^[195]
• The Smiths^[196][197]
• The Soft Boys^[198]
• The Sound^[199]
• Southern Death Cult^[200][201]
• Squeeze^[202]
• Street Eaters^[203]
• Subway Sect^[160]
• Sukatani^[204]
• Sunnyboys^[205]
• Swell Maps^[64]

T

• Talking Heads^{[2][6][206][207]}
• The Teardrop Explodes^[6]
• Television^[208]
• Television Personalities^[64]
• The The^[209]
• Theatre of Hate^[210]
• This Heat^[211][212]
• Thompson Twins (early work)^[213]
• The Three Johns^[214]
• Throbbing Gristle^[215]
• Tin Huey^[216]
• Tones on Tail^[18]
• Transvision Vamp^[217]
• Tuxedomoon^[218]

U

• U2^{[6][219][220]}
• UK Decay^[221]
• Ultravox^[222]

V

• The Veils^[223][224]
• Violent Femmes^[225]
• Voigt/465^[3]
• Volcano Suns^[226]

W

• The Wake^[227]
• Wall of Voodoo^[228]
• The Wedding Present^[229]
• Whirlywirld^[3]
• Wire^[230]

X

• Xero^[3]
• XTC^[1][103]

Y

• Young Marble Giants^[115][231]

Z

• Zounds^[232]

Post-punk revival bands

Main article: List of post-punk revival bands

See also

• List of gothic rock artists
• List of new wave artists
• List of punk rock bands, 0–K
• List of punk rock bands, L–Z
• List of post-hardcore bands