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Oct 10, 2014 · Unlike many genres of music susceptible to the prefix ‘post-’, post-punk stems from largely traceable foundations. Just as the first wave of punk rock formed via so-called ‘protopunk’ pioneers in Velvet Underground, The Stooges and MC5, post-punk represented the inevitable manifestation of punk rock’s reaction against itself.
- Pere Ubu. Best heard on: The Modern Dance. The art half of short-lived mid-’70s Cleveland proto-punk outfit Rocket From The Tombs, Pere Ubu have to be history’s first post-punk outfit.
- Public Image Ltd. Best heard on: Second Edition (aka Metal Box) After definitive punk band the Sex Pistols imploded at their 1978 U.S. tour’s conclusion, singer Johnny Rotten returned to London, licking his wounds.
- Gang Of Four. Best heard on: Entertainment! Post-punk rarely got more visceral and committed than in the vicious dance-floor clang of Gang Of Four. Four Leeds University students practicing a militant funk, Jon King crooned far-left polemics as guitarist Andy Gill made a sound like a man throwing an electric guitar down a staircase.
- The Pop Group. Best heard on: Y. “We were all teenage Rimbauds, dedicated to creating hell onstage,” Pop Group guitarist Gareth Sager told punk historian Jon Savage in his definitive Britpunk chronicle, England’s Dreaming.
Oct 6, 2023 · The Pioneers. One of the earliest and most influential post-punk bands was Joy Division. Hailing from Manchester, England, Joy Division’s 1979 debut album, “Unknown Pleasures,” remains a landmark in post-punk history.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus and the Cure were examples of post-punk bands who shifted to dark overtones in their music, which would later spawn the gothic rock scene in the early 1980s.
Mar 31, 2021 · Bush Tetras were as hard and funky as NYC post-punk got in the early ’80s. Dee Pop was as hard and inventive a drummer as there was, keeping a steady, propulsive beat that exploded all over the...
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Aug 18, 2017 · A label originally applied to bands in early 1978 as punk’s creative energy floundered, “post-punk” as a term found life in the early 1980s, denoting “post-(modern) punk.” 4
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Jan 1, 2024 · Despite numerous sonic differences from punk, post-punk emerged alongside punk (despite what the name suggests), in the late '70s in places like New York and London.
