List of musicians in the first wave of punk music

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• Adam and 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
• The Exploited
• The Fall
• Fatal Microbes
• The Flowers of Romance
• Flux of Pink Indians
• Generation X
• The Germs
• The Heartbreakers
• Iggy Pop
• The Jam
• London SS
• The Lurkers
• The Mekons
• The Members
• The Only Ones
• The Patti Smith Group
• Pere Ubu
• The Plasmatics
• Poison Girls
• Radio Birdman
• The Ramones
• Richard Hell & "The Voidoids"
• The Ruts
• The Saints
• Sex Pistols
• Sham 69
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• The Sillies
• The Skids
• Skrewdriver
• Slaughter and the Dogs
• The Slits
• Patti Smith
• The Soft Boys
• The Spitfire Boys
• Stiff Little Fingers
• The Stranglers
• Suicide
• The Talking Heads
• Teen Idles
• Television
• Tom Robinson Band
• Tubeway Army
• The Undertones
• The Urinals
• The Vibrators
• Vomit Pigs
• Wayne County and the Electric Chairs,
• The Weirdos
• Wire
• X
• X-ray Spex
• 999

• Pre-Punk Bands (ca. 1968-1976)
• Some Later Punk Bands (ca. 1980-present)
• Punk Films
• Punk Cities

• Related genres:

  post punk

  New Wave

  Anarcho-punk

  Grunge

  Skate punk

  Oi

  Hardcore punk

  Straight edge

  Ska punk

  Emo

  Nu metal

  Queercore

  Gothic rock

  Cassette culture

  Pub rock (UK)