Post-punk revival

The post-punk revival is a development in alternative rock of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which bands take inspiration from the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk of the late 1970s. New Wave music of the 1980s has also influenced the post-punk revival. Originally, the term "post-punk" was coined to describe those groups which in the late 1970s and early 1980s took punk and started to experiment with more challenging musical... more
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