List of Early Punk bands

See also: List of musicians by genre

• Adam & the Ants
• Abrasive Wheels
• The Adicts
• The Adverts
• The Afrika Korps
• Alternative TV
• Angelic Upstarts
• Anti-Pasti
• The Angry Samoans
• The Avengers
• Bad Brains
• Bad Religion
• Big in Japan
• Black Flag
• Blondie
• Boomtown Rats
• The Boys
• The Buzzcocks
• Canadian Bush Party
• Chelsea
• Circle Jerks
• The Clash
• John Cooper Clarke
• The Cramps
• Crass
• The Damned
• The Dead Boys
• Dead Kennedys
• The Delinquents
• The Descendents
• The Dickies
• The Dils
• D.O.A.
• The Exploited
• The Fall
• Fatal Microbes
• Fear
• Flipper
• The Flowers Of Romance
• Flux of Pink Indians
• Gang of Four
• Generation X
• The Germs
• GG Allin with various backing bands
• The Heartbreakers
• O(berste) H(eeres)L(eitung)
• Iggy Pop
• insane picnic
• The Jam
• The Kids
• London SS
• The Lurkers
• The Mekons
• The Members
• Mission Of Burma
• The Misfits
• The Monochrome Set
• The Only Ones
• Patti Smith Group
• Pere Ubu
• The Plasmatics
• Poison Girls
• The Pop Group
• Radio Birdman
• The Ramones
• Razzia
• Red Zebra
• Richard Hell & the Voidoids
• Riot/Clone
• The Ruts
• The Saints
• Schleimkeim
• The Screamers
• Sex Pistols
• Sham 69
• Siouxsie & the Banshees
• The Sillies
• The Skids
• Skrewdriver
• Slaughter & the Dogs
• The Slits
• Patti Smith
• Slime
• Social Distortion
• The Soft Boys
• Spasmodic Caress
• The Spitfire Boys
• SS Ultrabrutal
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Terrorgruppe
• The Stranglers
• Suicide
• The Suicide Commandos
• Talking Heads
• Teen Idles
• Television
• Tom Robinson Band
• Torpedo Moskau
• Toxoplasma
• Tubeway Army
• UK Subs
• The Undertones
• The Urinals
• Vennaskond
• The Vibrators
• Vice Squad
• Vomit Pigs
• Vorkriegsjugend
• The Water Pistols (parody)
• Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
• The Weirdos
• Wire
• X (US)
• X (Australia)
• X-Ray Spex
• Young Docteurs
• zeroption
• 999