List of power trios

This is a list of rock groups described as power trios – bands consisting of electric guitar, bass, and drums.

The prototypical power trio is the British band Cream, founded in 1966 with Eric Clapton on guitar/vocals, Jack Bruce on bass/vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums.^[1]

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A Adrian Belew Power Trio Agent Orange[2] Alkaline Trio[3] American Authors (Quartet from 2006 to 2021, trio since 2021) Arcane Roots[4] Arcwelder[5] The Aristocrats[6] Ash The Atomic Bitchwax[7] Autolux B Babes in Toyland[8] Back Door Slam[9] Band of Skulls[10] Beck, Bogert & Appice[11] Biffy Clyro[12] The Big Three[13] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club[14] Blink-182[15] Blue Cheer[16] Blue Murder[17] Boris (except for occasional fourth member Michio Kurihara on guitar)[18] Bowling for Soup (upon the departure of Chris Burney in 2025) Boygenius[19] Bratmobile[20] Brutus[21] Budgie[22] Buffalo Tom[23] C California Breed[24] Ché[25] Chevelle[26] Clear Blue Sky[27] Cloakroom Coroner[28] Cosmic Psychos[29] Cream[16][30] The Cribs (except when Johnny Marr was a member)[31] D Dada[32] Danko Jones[33] Death[34] Die! Die! Die![35] Dinosaur Jr. Divididos[36] Doctor Victor[37] Dust[38] Dying Fetus[39] E Earthless Earl Greyhound[12] Elliott Brood Emerson, Lake and Palmer Everclear The Evidence F Failure The Fall of Troy Feeder Firehose The Fratellis Freak Kitchen Fudge Tunnel Fun Lovin' Criminals G Galaxie 500 Glass Harp Godflesh Grand Funk Railroad[30][40] Grand Magus Grant Lee Buffalo Green Day[16] Guitar Wolf[41] H Heroes & Zeros High on Fire[42] Highly Suspect Buddy Holly and the Crickets Hot Tuna (three power trio albums from 1974 to 1977)[43] House of Large Sizes Hüsker Dü Hot Club de Paris

I Interpol[44] J James Gang[30] Jawbreaker The Jimi Hendrix Experience[16][30] John Mayer Trio[12] The Joy Formidable[12] K Kamchatka Karma to Burn[45][46] Killdozer[47] King's X[16] KXM[48] Khruangbin L Lifehouse The Lawrence Arms Leño Leusemia The London Souls[12] Los Lonely Boys[12] Love of Diagrams Low M Manic Street Preachers Mantra Sunrise May Blitz Meat Puppets Melvins Menomena Metz[49] Minutemen Mischief Brew Modest Mouse (between 1996 and 1997) Mondo Generator[50] Morphine Motörhead[16][30] Mountain Muse[12] MxPx Motorpsycho N Nada Surf until 2010, when Doug Gillard joined on second guitar Nebula[51] Niacin The Nice Nirvana[16][30] Nomeansno November O One Man Army The Outfield P Paramore Peer Günt Pepper Peter Bjorn and John[12] Placebo The Police[30][52] The Presidents of the United States of America Primus[16] Los Prisioneros Prong Q Qui R Radio Moscow Raven (quartet 1974–1981, power trio 1981–present)[53] The Rods Rose Hill Drive[54] Rush[16][30] Russian Circles[12]

S Sasquatch[55] Sausage The Screaming Blue Messiahs Screaming Females Sebadoh The Secret Machines[12] Shellac[56] Shrug Silverchair Sick Puppies Sleater-Kinney Sleep Soda Stereo Sodom[57] (from 1981 until 2018) Soft Machine Spiderbait State Radio Stick Men The Steepwater Band Steve Morse Band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble[16] (until 1985, when Reese Wynans was added) Stöner[58] Stray Cats Sublime The Subways Sugar Sunflower Bean (until 2019, when Danny Ayala was added) Super 400 T Talas Taste[59] Tera Melos The Tea Party Therapy? The Thermals[12] Them Crooked Vultures[12] The Warning Thirty Seconds to Mars Those Darlins Tiger Army Tiny Moving Parts Triumph[60] Triggerfinger TTNG U U.K. Unearthly Trance Urge Overkill[61] V Vampire Weekend (began as a quartet and became a rock trio when Rostam Batmanglij left the band in 2016) Vardis Venom Violent Femmes Voice of Baceprot W Wakrat[62] Walt Mink[63] The Warning West, Bruce and Laing Wild Adriatic White Lies The Winery Dogs Wipers Wolfmother The Wombats X The XX[12] Y Yawning Man[64] Yeah Yeah Yeahs[30] Year Long Disaster[65] The Young Gods[66] Young Knives Yo La Tengo Yob Z Zebra ZZ Top[16][30] # 50 Foot Wave The 5.6.7.8s