List of Early Punk bands
see: List of musicians by genre
Please add to list in alphabetical order
- Adam & the Ants
- The Adverts
- The Afrika Korps
- Alternative TV
- Angelic Upstarts
- The Angry Samoans
- The Avengers
- Bad Brains
- Big in Japan
- Black Flag
- Blondie
- Boomtown Rats
- The Boys
- The Buzzcocks
- Chelsea
- John Cooper Clarke
- The Cramps
- Crass
- The Clash
- The Damned
- The Dead Boys
- The Descendents
- The Dickies
- The Dils
- D.O.A
- The Exploited
- The Fall
- Fatal Microbes
- The Flowers of Romance
- Flux of Pink Indians
- Generation X
- The Germs
- GG Allin with various backing bands
- The Heartbreakers
- Iggy Pop
- The Jam
- London SS
- The Lurkers
- The Mekons
- The Members
- The Only Ones
- Patti Smith Group
- Pere Ubu
- The Plasmatics
- Poison Girls
- Radio Birdman
- The Ramones
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- Riot/Clone
- The Ruts
- The Saints
- The Screamers
- Sex Pistols
- Sham 69
- Siouxsie & the Banshees
- The Sillies
- The Skids
- Skrewdriver
- Slaughter & the Dogs
- The Slits
- Patti Smith
- The Soft Boys
- The Spitfire Boys
- Stiff Little Fingers
- The Stranglers
- Suicide
- Talking Heads
- Teen Idles
- Television
- Tom Robinson Band
- Tubeway Army
- The Undertones
- The Urinals
- The Vibrators
- Vomit Pigs
- Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
- The Weirdos
- Wire
- X
- X-Ray Spex
- 999
See also
- Pre-Punk Bands (ca. 1968-1976)
- Some Later Punk Bands (ca. 1980-present)
- Punk Films
- Punk Cities
- Related genres:
