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Post-punk
Post-punk is a popular musical movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental. Post-punk laid the groundwork for alternative...
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Garrison
Garrison was a post-hardcore/punk band based in Boston, Massachusetts from 1996-2004. Garrison released two full length albums, both on Revelation Records. The band used components of post punk, shoegaze, and emocore in their music, and played...
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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode (IPA: [dəˈpɛʃ], də-PESH) are an English electronic band who formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981),...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Devo
Devo (pronounced /ˈdiːvoʊ/ DEE-voh, originally /diːˈvoʊ/ dee-VOH), often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American New Wave band formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis (vocals and occasional guitar), Bernard Sumner (guitar and keyboards), Peter Hook (bass guitar...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jan 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- May 1980
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New Order
New Order were an English musical group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, backing vocals, electronic drums) and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). New Order were formed in the wake of the demise...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Pixies
The Pixies are an American alternative rock band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The group disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering have been the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1993
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore (vocals and guitar), Kim Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (vocals and guitar), Mark Ibold (bass) and Steve Shelley ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members.
Initially associated with the British punk rock scene, Siouxsie & the Banshees quickly evolved to...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Sep 1976
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1996
Television
Television is an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1973. Although Television have never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they have achieved significant commercial success in Europe. Today, they are widely...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1973
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1978
Talking Heads
Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also frequently made appearances in concert and on the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1974
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1991
Associates
The Associates were a Scottish post-punk and new wave band of the early 1980s. They were well known for the operatic voice and theatrical antics of singer Billy Mackenzie who committed suicide in 1997.
Mackenzie and guitarist Alan Rankine met in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
The Stranglers
The Stranglers are an English rock music group.
Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most continuously successful band to have originated in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1974
The Residents
The Residents is an American avant-garde music and visual arts group who have been active since 1969. Their first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and since then the band have gone on to release over sixty albums,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
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The Slits
The Slits are a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up (Arianna Forster) and Palmolive (Paloma Romero, who later left to join The Raincoats),...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1981
The Fall
The Fall are an English post-punk group, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. The group has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. First associated with the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
U2
U2 are a rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono (vocals and rhythm guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).
The band formed at secondary...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Bauhaus
Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass). The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
The Police
The Police were an English rock trio, from London, England, formed originally in 1977. The trio consisted of Gordon Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), widely known by his stage name of Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar, vocals)...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jan 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1986
The Cure
The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 by Robert Smith, Lawrence Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
The Psychedelic Furs
The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs were one of the more successful acts spawned from the British punk rock scene. Their music...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1991
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He was a member of the new wave band Devo for many years. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games....
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Massive Attack
Massive Attack are a British music duo from Bristol, UK, that work alongside co-producers to assemble a collective of various favoured session musicians and guest vocalists with whom they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), widely known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician and actor from Wallsend in North Tyneside.
Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Swans
Swans were an American post-punk band active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1997
Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England) is the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well...
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- Mar 13, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Tones on Tail
Tones on Tail was a musical side project created by Daniel Ash of Bauhaus along with art-schoolfriend/flatmate and "Bauhaus roadie" Glenn Campling in 1982. After the breakup of Bauhaus in 1983, they were joined by drummer Kevin Haskins. The band...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd. (PiL) are an English musical group formed in 1978 by vocalist John Lydon, guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble.
Rising from the ashes of the pivotal punk rock group the Sex Pistols, PiL branched out to a more experimental...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1993
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine are a shoegazing band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1984. The founding members are guitarist/singer Kevin Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. The band's lineup during its heyday also included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and...
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The Sugarcubes
The Sugarcubes (Sykurmolarnir in Icelandic) were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.
They first came to notice in the UK when radio DJ John Peel played ...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1992
Violent Femmes
The Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band, formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1980. They are noted for laying the groundwork for folk punk. The band had four members: singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba is an English band. Over a 27-year career, the band plays music ranging from pop-influenced dance music, a cappella/choral music and world music to acoustic folk music.
The band are best known for their song "Tubthumping" (also known as ...
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Gang of Four
Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.
He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and fIREHOSE; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the...
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- Dec 20, 1957 (age 51 years)
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Rollins Band
Rollins Band was an American rock group, led by singer and songwriter, Henry Rollins.
They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s. Critic Steve Huey describes their music...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Apr 1987
Adam & the Ants
Adam & the Ants were a New Wave band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were one of the bands at the time that marked the transition from the 70s punk rock era to the New Wave/post-punk era.
Prior to the Ants, Adam Ant (real name Stuart...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1982
The Cult
The Cult are an English rock band, formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk and gothic rock band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Southern Death Cult
Southern Death Cult was a gothic rock band in the early 1980s. It is now primarily known for having given its lead singer and parts of its name to the multi-platinum hard rock band The Cult. Despite the similarities in the names, "Southern Death...
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AFI
AFI (A Fire Inside) is an American rock band from Ukiah, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as a performance art group called The...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Oct 31, 1995
The Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
The Raincoats
The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva (vocals, guitar) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England.
The line-up included Ross Crighton on guitar and...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Japan
Japan were a British pop/rock group, formed in 1974 in Lewisham, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement (though the band themselves...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1974
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1981
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. They released a string of albums, singles and EPs between their...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1998
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle is a British industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge (bass, violin, vocals, vibraphone), Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitars, cornet,...
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Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Beat Happening
Beat Happening is an American indie rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie rock and lo-fi...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgin's DinDisc subsidiary).
The group was...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Suicide
Suicide is an American synthpunk music duo intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. Like Silver Apples, they are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
Never widely...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1975
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Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 in Ardwick, Manchester) is an English songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player, and singer. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, where he formed a prolific...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers. The duo is well known for their huge 1981 worldwide hit - a significantly reworked cover version of...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
Cocteau Twins
The Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative music band active from 1979 to 1997, known for complex instrumentation and atmospheric, nonlyrical vocals.
Though formed in the post punk and new wave era, the Cocteau Twins tended to defy concise...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1998
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is a British rock musician and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock group Sex Pistols during the 1970s and 2000s, and also as the vocalist of post punk...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Scott Raynor
Scott William Raynor, Jr. (born May 23, 1978) is an American drummer, most notably the original drummer, and a founding member of Blink-182, until he was asked to leave the band in mid-1998. He was replaced by Travis Barker.
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Martin Hannett
Martin Hannett (born Manchester, Lancashire, England 31 May 1948 – 18 April 1991), sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was a record producer who helped develop Joy Division and was an original partner in Factory Records with Tony Wilson. Hannett's...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1948
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1991 (age 42 years)
The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party was an Australian post-punk group, active from 1976 to 1983.
Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career. Though often indirect, their influence has been far...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Mar 1, 1980
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Aug 1983
Young Marble Giants
The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk band. A trio formed in 1978, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton....
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Bix
This article is about the Lithuanian rock group. For other meanings, see Bix (disambiguation).
BIX is one of the oldest and famous rock bands in Lithuania. They got together in 1987 in Šiauliai and in a few months became a cult band. After a period...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
Christian Death
Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was fronted and founded by Rozz Williams and featured guitarist Rikk Agnew. Christian Death is most notable for their album Only Theatre of Pain, which...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Oct 1979
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer–songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the New Wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she also performed and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1945 (age 64 years)
