List of musicians in the first wave of punk music

Please add to list in alphabetical order

• Adam and the Ants
• The Adverts
• Alternative TV
• Angelic Upstarts[?]
• The Angry Samoans
• Bad Brains
• Big in Japan[?]
• Blondie
• The Boys[?]
• The Buzzcocks
• Chelsea[?]
• John Cooper Clarke[?]
• The Cramps
• Crass
• The Clash
• The Damned
• The Dead Boys
• Dead Kennedys
• The Descendants
• The Dickies[?]
• 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[?]
• New York Dolls
• The Patti Smith Group[?]
• Pere Ubu
• The Plasmatics
• Poison Girls[?]
• The Ramones
• Richard Hell & "The Voidoids"
• The Ruts[?]
• The Saints
• Sex Pistols
• Sham 69[?]
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• The Sillies
• Skrewdriver
• Slaughter and the Dogs[?]
• The Slits
• Patti Smith
• The Soft Boys[?]
• The Spitfire Boys
• Stiff Little Fingers[?]
• The Stranglers
• 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[?],
• 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:

• post punk
• New Wave
• Anarcho-punk
• Grunge
• Skate punk
• Oi!
• Hardcore
• Straight edge
• Ska punk
• Emo
• Nu metal
• Queercore[?]
• Gothic rock
• Cassette culture
• Pub rock (UK)