Post-Punk

Punk's most musically expansive band, fusing reggae, dub, and rockabilly.

Goth-tinged post-punk turned arena-filling alternative rock.

Bleak Mancunian post-punk whose two albums shaped a generation.

CBGB art-school nerds who pushed rock into funk and global rhythm.

Reggae-tinged New Wave trio whose tight songwriting topped charts globally.

Manchester post-Joy-Division project who fused dance music and rock.

Liverpool post-punk band of cinematic atmosphere and Doors-y drama.

Trailblazing post-punks whose icy art-rock paved goth's path.

Northampton band whose 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' essentially launched goth rock.

Leeds gothic-rock institution synonymous with smoke-and-leather darkness.

Reid brothers' fuzz-pop project, an indie touchstone whose noise inspired shoegaze.

Boston post-punks whose noisy intelligence prefigured indie rock.

Vancouver industrial pioneers of grim collage and biomechanical theatre.

London post-punks who pre-dated industrial rock and influenced metal alike.

Akron art-punks whose herky-jerky New Wave was both satire and innovation.

New York post-punks whose 'Marquee Moon' rewired guitar interplay.

Cleveland avant-rockers whose sci-fi unease built post-punk's American wing.

London art-punks whose minimalist songwriting influenced indie for decades.

Mark E. Smith's prolific Manchester institution of acerbic post-punk.

London punks who released the first British punk single, then evolved into goth.

Belfast punks whose 'Inflammable Material' chronicled the Troubles.

London band whose keyboard-led punk became polished New Wave.

Howard Devoto's post-Buzzcocks project of cerebral post-punk.

Leeds post-punks who fused political theory with funk-inflected rhythm.

John Lydon's post-Pistols project, a foundational post-punk band.

Mexico City rock-en-español pioneers of dark, danceable rock.

Luca Prodan's Buenos Aires post-punks who reshaped Argentine rock.

Santiago band whose synth-rock protests defined Chilean rock under Pinochet.

Zaragoza band who became one of Spain's biggest rock exports.

Bordeaux alt-rockers, one of France's most acclaimed rock bands.

Cave's Berlin-formed band of literary, often gothic alternative rock.

Cave's pre-Bad-Seeds outfit, post-punk's most violent, theatrical band.

Brisbane band whose '(I'm) Stranded' was the first non-American/British punk single.

Sydney band whose 'Under the Milky Way' became a global indie touchstone.

Bradford band who pivoted from goth post-punk into AC/DC-tinged hard rock.

Leeds gothic-rock band founded by ex-Sisters of Mercy members.

Glasgow indie-rockers whose dance-punk hooks defined a 2000s sound.

London indie-rockers of jagged guitars and political restlessness.

Leeds indie-rockers of rabble-rousing chants and post-punk rhythms.

Wakefield Jarman-brothers indie band of jangly DIY ethics.

Birmingham band of Joy-Division-tinged moody indie.

Bristol post-punks of anti-toxic-masculinity rage and cathartic noise.

Dublin post-punks whose poetic snarl headlines the new UK-Irish wave.

Brighton band of skittering post-punk and Krautrock flicker.

London band central to the new UK post-punk wave.

London band of spoken-word lyrics over drifting post-punk.

Nottingham duo of stripped-down beats and Jason Williamson rants.

Southend band who arc-ed from goth garage to layered shoegaze rock.

James Murphy's NYC dance-punk band of restless, witty disco-rock.

Steve Albini's drum-machine-and-knives noise-rock trio.

London band of androgynous glam-tinged alt-rock and 90s-into-2000s prominence.