Post Punk & Indie Rock

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities. Inspired by punk’s energy and DIY ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented diversely with sources including electronic music and black styles like dub, funk, free jazz, and disco; novel recording and production techniques; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature.  Communities that produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines developed around these pioneering musical scenes, which coalesced in cities such as London, New York, Manchester, and San Francisco.

The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, Magazine, Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, the Slits, the Cure, the Fall and Au Pairs. The movement was closely related to the development of ancillary genres such as gothic rock, dark wave, neo-psychedelia, no wave and industrial music. By the mid-1980s, post-punk had dissipated while providing the impetus for the New Pop movement as well much subsequent alternative and independent music.

Definition

Post-punk is a diverse genre  that emerged from the cultural milieu of punk rock in the late 1970s. Originally called “new musick”, the terms were first used by various writers in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk’s garage rock template and into disparate areas. Sounds writers Jon Savage and Jane Suck stated that they coined “post-punk”. NME writer Paul Morley also stated that he had “possibly” invented the term himself.  At the time, there was a feeling of renewed excitement regarding what the word would entail, with Sounds publishing numerous preemptive editorials on new musick. Towards the end of the decade, some journalists used “art punk” as a pejorative for garage rock-derived acts deemed too sophisticated and out of step with punk’s dogma.  Before the early 1980s, many groups now categorized as “post-punk” were subsumed under the broad umbrella of “new wave”, with the terms being deployed interchangeably. “Post-punk” became differentiated from “new wave” after their styles perceptibly narrowed.

Nicholas Lezard described the term “post-punk” as “so multifarious that only the broadest use … is possible”. Subsequent discourse has failed to clarify whether contemporary music journals and fanzines conventionally understood “post-punk” the way that it was discussed in later years.  Reynolds’ 2005 book Rip It Up and Start Again is widely referenced as post-punk doctrine, although he has stated that the book only covers aspects of post-punk that he had a personal inclination toward. Wilkinson characterised Reynolds’ readings as “apparent revisionism and ‘rebranding'”.  Author/musician Alex Ogg criticised: “The problem is not with what Reynolds left out of Rip It Up …, but, paradoxically, that too much was left in”. Ogg suggested that post-punk pertains to a set of artistic sensibilities and approaches rather than any unifying style, and disputed the accuracy of the term’s chronological prefix “post”, as various groups commonly labeled “post-punk” predate the punk rock movement.  Reynolds defined the post-punk era as occurring roughly between 1978 and 1984.  He advocated that post-punk be conceived as “less a genre of music than a space of possibility”,  suggesting that “what unites all this activity is a set of open-ended imperatives: innovation; willful oddness; the willful jettisoning of all things precedented or ‘rock’n’roll'”. All Music employs “post-punk” to denote “a more adventurous and arty form of punk”.

Characteristics and philosophy

Many post-punk artists were initially inspired by punk’s DIY ethic and energy, but ultimately became disillusioned with the style and movement, feeling that it had fallen into commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody.  They repudiated its populist claims to accessibility and raw simplicity, instead seeing an opportunity to break with musical tradition, subvert commonplaces and challenge audiences.  Artists moved beyond punk’s focus on the concerns of a largely white, male, working class population  and abandoned its continued reliance on established rock and roll tropes, such as three-chord progressions and Chuck Berry-based guitar riffs.  These artists instead defined punk as “an imperative to constant change”, believing that “radical content demands radical form”.

Artists like James Chance rejected rock tropes, instead crossing the avant-garde with funk, jazz and other styles.
Though the music varied widely between regions and artists, the post-punk movement has been characterized by its “conceptual assault” on rock conventions  and rejection of aesthetics perceived of as traditionalist,  hegemonic  or rockist  in favor of experimentation with production techniques and non-rock musical styles such as dub,  funk,  electronic music,  disco,  noise, free jazz, world music  and the avant-garde. Some previous musical styles also served as touchstones for the movement, including particular brands of krautrock,  glam, art rock,  art pop  and other music from the 1960s. Artists once again approached the studio as an instrument, using new recording methods and pursuing novel sonic territories.  Author Matthew Bannister wrote that post-punk artists rejected the high cultural references of 1960s rock artists like the Beatles and Bob Dylan as well as paradigms that defined “rock as progressive, as art, as ‘sterile’ studio perfectionism … by adopting an avant-garde aesthetic”. According to musicologist Pete Dale, while groups wanted to “rip up history and start again”, the music was still “inevitably tied to traces they could never fully escape”.

Nicholas Lezard described post-punk as “a fusion of art and music”. The era saw the robust appropriation of ideas from literature, art, cinema, philosophy, politics and critical theory into musical and pop cultural contexts.  Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to the art school tradition found in the work of artists such as Roxy Music and David Bowie. Reynolds noted a preoccupation among some post-punk artists with issues such as alienation, repression and technocracy of Western modernity.  Among major influences on a variety of post-punk artists were writers such as William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, avant-garde political scenes such as Situationism and Dada, and intellectual movements such as postmodernism.  Many artists viewed their work in explicitly political terms.  Additionally, in some locations, the creation of post-punk music was closely linked to the development of efficacious subcultures, which played important roles in the production of art, multimedia performances, fanzines and independent labels related to the music.  Many post-punk artists maintained an anti-corporatist approach to recording and instead seized on alternate means of producing and releasing music.  Journalists also became an important element of the culture, and popular music magazines and critics became immersed in the movement.

1977–79: Early years

During the punk era, a variety of entrepreneurs interested in local punk-influenced music scenes began founding independent record labels, including Rough Trade (founded by record shop owner Geoff Travis), Factory (founded by Manchester-based television personality Tony Wilson),  and Fast Product (co-founded by Bob Last and Hilary Morrison).  By 1977, groups began pointedly pursuing methods of releasing music independently, an idea disseminated in particular by Buzzcocks’ release of their Spiral Scratch EP on their own label as well as the self-released 1977 singles of Desperate Bicycles. These DIY imperatives would help form the production and distribution infrastructure of post-punk and the indie music scene that later blossomed in the mid-1980s.

As the initial punk movement dwindled, vibrant new scenes began to coalesce out of a variety of bands pursuing experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory in their work.  By late 1977, British acts like Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire were experimenting with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics that differed significantly from their punk contemporaries. Savage described some of these early developments as exploring “harsh urban scrapings”, “controlled white noise” and “massively accented drumming”.  Mojo editor Pat Gilbert said, “The first truly post-punk band were Siouxsie and the Banshees”, noting the influence of the band’s use of repetition on Joy Division.  John Robb similarly argued that the very first Banshees gig was “proto post punk” due to the hypnotic rhythm section.  In January 1978, singer John Lydon (then known as Johnny Rotten) announced the break-up of his pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols, citing his disillusionment with punk’s musical predictability and cooption by commercial interests, as well as his desire to explore more diverse territory.  In May, Lydon formed the group Public Image Ltd  with guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, the latter who declared “rock is obsolete” after citing reggae as a “natural influence”.  However, Lydon described his new sound as “total pop with deep meanings. But I don’t want to be categorised in any other term but punk! That’s where I come from and that’s where I’m staying.”

United Kingdom

Around this time, acts such as Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group and the Slits had begun experimenting with dance music, dub production techniques and the avant-garde,  while punk-indebted Manchester acts such as Joy Division, The Fall, the Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio developed unique styles which drew on a similarly disparate range of influences across music and modernist art.  Bands such as Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, Essential Logic and This Heat incorporated Leftist political philosophy and their own art school studies in their work.   The unorthodox studio production techniques devised by producers such as Steve Lillywhite,  Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music.  Labels such as Rough Trade, Factory and Fast would become important hubs for these groups and help facilitate releases, artwork, performances and promotion.

Credit for who made the first post-punk record is disputed, but strong contenders include the debuts of Magazine (“Shot by Both Sides”, January 1978), Siouxsie and the Banshees (“Hong Kong Garden”, August 1978), Public Image Ltd (“Public Image”, September 1978), Cabaret Voltaire (Extended Play, November 1978) and Gang of Four (“Damaged Goods”, December 1978).  AllMusic critic Andy Kellman declared that “Shot by Both Sides” was a post-punk milestone on par with punk’s “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976).

A variety of groups that predated punk, such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, experimented with tape machines and electronic instruments in tandem with performance art methods and influence from transgressive literature, ultimately helping to pioneer industrial music.  Throbbing Gristle’s independent label Industrial Records would become a hub for this scene and provide it with its namesake. A pioneering punk scene in Australia during the mid-1970s also fostered influential post-punk acts like the Birthday Party, who eventually relocated to the UK to join its burgeoning music scene.

Siouxsie and the Banshees with the Cure. The two groups frequently collaborated.
As these scenes began to develop, British music publications such as NME and Sounds developed an influential part in the nascent post-punk culture, with writers like Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman developing a dense (and often playful) style of criticism that drew on philosophy, radical politics and an eclectic variety of other sources. In 1978, UK magazine Sounds celebrated albums such as Siouxsie and the Banshees’ The Scream, Wire’s Chairs Missing and American band Pere Ubu’s Dub Housing.  In 1979, NME championed records such as PiL’s Metal Box, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, Gang of Four’s Entertainment!, Wire’s 154, the Raincoats’ self-titled debut and American group Talking Heads’ album Fear of Music.

Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, and Joy Division were the main post-punk bands who shifted to dark overtones in their music, which would later spawn the gothic rock scene in the early 80s.   Neo-psychedelia grew out of the British post-punk scene in the late 1970s. The genre later flourished into a more widespread and international movement of artists who applied the spirit of psychedelic rock to new sounds and techniques.  Other styles such as avant-funk and industrial dub also emerged around 1979.

United States

In the mid-1970s, various American groups (some with ties to Downtown Manhattan’s punk scene, including Television and Suicide) had begun expanding on the vocabulary of punk music.  Midwestern groups such as Pere Ubu and Devo drew inspiration from the region’s derelict industrial environments, employing conceptual art techniques, musique concrète and unconventional verbal styles that would presage the post-punk movement by several years. A variety of subsequent groups, including the Boston-based Mission of Burma and the New York-based Talking Heads, combined elements of punk with art school sensibilities.  In 1978, the latter band began a series of collaborations with British ambient pioneer and ex-Roxy Music member Brian Eno, experimenting with Dadaist lyrical techniques, electronic sounds and African polyrhythms.  San Francisco’s vibrant post-punk scene was centered on such groups as Chrome, the Residents, Tuxedomoon and MX-80, whose influences extended to multimedia experimentation, cabaret and the dramatic theory of Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty.

 

Also emerging during this period was downtown New York’s no wave movement, a short-lived art and music scene that began in part as a reaction against punk’s recycling of traditionalist rock tropes and often reflected an abrasive, confrontational and nihilistic worldview.   No wave musicians such as the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Theoretical Girls and Rhys Chatham instead experimented with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to non-rock styles.  The former four groups were included on the Eno-produced No New York compilation (1978), often considered the quintessential testament to the scene.  The decadent parties and art installations of venues such as Club 57 and the Mudd Club would become cultural hubs for musicians and visual artists alike, with figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Michael Holman frequenting the scene.  According to Village Voice writer Steve Anderson, the scene pursued an abrasive reductionism which “undermined the power and mystique of a rock vanguard by depriving it of a tradition to react against”.  Anderson claimed that the no wave scene represented “New York’s last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement”.

 

1980–84: Further developments

British post-punk entered the 1980s with support from members of the critical community—American critic Greil Marcus characterised “Britain’s postpunk pop avant-garde” in a 1980 Rolling Stone article as “sparked by a tension, humour and sense of paradox plainly unique in present day pop music” —as well as media figures such as BBC DJ John Peel, while several groups, such as PiL and Joy Division, achieved some success in the popular charts. The network of supportive record labels that included Industrial, Fast, E.G., Mute, Axis/4AD and Glass continued to facilitate a large output of music. By 1980, many British acts, including Magazine, Essential Logic, Killing Joke, the Sound, 23 Skidoo, Alternative TV, the Teardrop Explodes, the Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Membranes also became part of these fledgling post-punk scenes, which centered on cities such as London and Manchester.

However, during this period, major figures and artists in the scene began leaning away from underground aesthetics. In the music press, the increasingly esoteric writing of post-punk publications soon began to alienate their readerships; it is estimated that within several years, NME suffered the loss of half its circulation. Writers like Morley began advocating “overground brightness” instead of the experimental sensibilities promoted in early years.  Morley’s own musical collaboration with engineer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, the Art of Noise, would attempt to bring sampled and electronic sounds to the pop mainstream.  Post-punk artists such as Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside and Josef K’s Paul Haig, previously engaged in avant-garde practices, turned away from these approaches and pursued mainstream styles and commercial success.  These new developments, in which post-punk artists attempted to bring subversive ideas into the pop mainstream, began to be categorized under the marketing term New Pop.

New Romantic acts like Bow Wow Wow (left) dealt heavily in outlandish fashion, while synthpop artists such as Gary Numan (right) made use of electronics and visual stylization.
Several more pop-oriented groups, including ABC, the Associates, Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow (the latter two managed by former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren) emerged in tandem with the development of the New Romantic subcultural scene.  Emphasizing glamour, fashion and escapism in distinction to the experimental seriousness of earlier post-punk groups, the club-oriented scene drew some suspicion from denizens of the movement but also achieved commercial success. Artists such as Gary Numan, the Human League, Soft Cell, John Foxx and Visage helped pioneer a new synthpop style that drew more heavily from electronic and synthesizer music and benefited from the rise of MTV.

Downtown Manhattan and elsewhere

Glenn Branca performing in New York in the 1980s.
In the early 1980s, Downtown Manhattan’s no wave scene transitioned from its abrasive origins into a more dance-oriented sound, with compilations such as ZE Records’ Mutant Disco (1981) highlighting a newly playful sensibility borne out of the city’s clash of hip hop, disco and punk styles, as well as dub reggae and world music influences.  Artists such as ESG, Liquid Liquid, the B-52s, Cristina, Arthur Russell, James White and the Blacks and Lizzy Mercier Descloux pursued a formula described by Luc Sante as “anything at all + disco bottom”. Other no wave-indebted artists such as Swans, Glenn Branca, the Lounge Lizards, Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth instead continued exploring the early scene’s forays into noise and more abrasive territory.

In Germany, groups such as Einstürzende Neubauten developed a unique style of industrial music, utilizing avant-garde noise, homemade instruments and found objects.  Members of that group would later go on to collaborate with members of the Birthday Party.

Mid-1980s: Decline

The original post-punk movement ended as the bands associated with the movement turned away from its aesthetics, often in favor of more commercial sounds (such as new wave) . Many of these groups would continue recording as part of the new pop movement, with entryism becoming a popular concept.  In the United States, driven by MTV and modern rock radio stations, a number of post-punk acts had an influence on or became part of the Second British Invasion of “New Music” there.  Some shifted to a more commercial new wave sound (such as Gang of Four),  while others were fixtures on American college radio and became early examples of alternative rock. One band to emerge from post-punk was U2,  which infused elements of religious imagery and political commentary into its often anthemic music.

1990s–2000s: Revival of Post Punk  (The indie rock scene)

At the turn of the 21st century, a post-punk revival developed in British and American alternative and indie rock, which soon started appearing in other countries, as well. The earliest sign of a revival was the emergence of various underground bands in the mid-1990s. However, the first commercially successful bands – The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and Editors – surfaced in the late 1990s to early 2000s, as did several dance-oriented bands such as the Rapture, Radio 4 and LCD Soundsystem.

Legacy

Influence in the 1980s–90s

See also: Alternative rock, Indie pop, and Indie rock
Post-punk was an eclectic genre which resulted in a wide variety of musical innovations and helped merge white and black musical styles.  Out of the post-punk milieu came the beginnings of various subsequent genres,  including new wave,  avant-funk,  dance-rock,  New Pop,  industrial music  synthpop,   post-hardcore, alternative rock,  house music and twee pop.

 

Until the early 2000s, the post-punk era was “often dismissed as an awkward period in which punk’s gleeful ructions petered out into the vacuity of the Eighties” by commentators.  In recent years, Reynolds was one of the first scholars to have argued to the contrary, asserting that the period produced significant innovations and music on its own.  Reynolds described the period as “a fair match for the sixties in terms of the sheer amount of great music created, the spirit of adventure and idealism that infused it, and the way that the music seemed

inextricably connected to the political and social turbulence of its era”.  Nicholas Lezard wrote that the music of the period “was avant-garde, open to any musical possibilities that suggested themselves, united only in the sense that it was very often cerebral, concocted by brainy young men and women interested as much in disturbing the audience, or making them think, as in making a pop song”.

 

 

List of post-punk bands

23 Skidoo

Adam and the Ants
And the Native Hipsters
The Art Attacks
Artery
Associates
Au Pairs
Bauhaus
Bhopal Stiffs
Big Black
The Birthday Party
Blam Blam Blam
Blyth Power
Bush Tetras
Cabaret Voltaire
Capital Inicial
A Certain Ratio
The Chameleons
James Chance and the Contortions
The Chills
Circus Mort
The Clean
Clock DVA
Cocteau Twins
The Comsat Angels
The Cult
The Cure
DA!
Dalek I Love You
Dead Can Dance
The Deep Freeze Mice
The Del-Byzanteens
Delta
Depeche Mode
Desperate Bicycles
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)
Devo
Do-Re-Mi
The Durutti Column
Echo and the Bunnymen
ESG
Essential Logic
Eurogliders
The Ex
Eyeless in Gaza
Factrix
Faith No More (as Faith No Man)
The Fall
Family Fodder
The Feelies
The Fire Engines
Flipper
The Flying Lizards
For Against
Fra Lippo Lippi (early work)
Gang of Four
Gene Loves Jezebel
Girls at Our Best!
Glaxo Babies
Half Man Half Biscuit
Heaven 17
The Higsons
The Human League
Hüsker Dü
I’m So Hollow
In Camera
Japan
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Josef K
Joy Division
Killing Joke
Kino
LiLiPUT
The Lords of the New Church
Love and Rockets
Ludus
Magazine
Maximum Joy
The Mekons
The Membranes
The Method Actors
Midnight Oil (early work)
Minimal Compact
Minny Pops
Mission of Burma
Mo-dettes
Models
Modern English
Modern Eon
The Monochrome Set
Naked Raygun
The Names
New Model Army
New Order
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Nightingales
The Opposition
Orange Juice
Palais Schaumburg
The Passions
Pel Mel
Pere Ubu
Phantom Tollbooth
Pigbag
Pink Military
The Police
The Pop Group
Primitive Calculators
The Psychedelic Furs
Public Image Ltd
Pylon
The Raincoats
Rank and File
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Rema-Rema
The Residents
Rip Rig + Panic
Romeo Void
Sad Lovers & Giants
Savage Republic
The Scientists
Scritti Politti
Section 25
Sex Gang Children
Sielun Veljet
Simple Minds
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Sisters of Mercy
The Sleepers
The Slits
The Smiths
The Soft Boys
The Sound
Southern Death Cult
Squeeze
Subway Sect
Sunnyboys
Swell Maps
Talking Heads
The Teardrop Explodes
Television Personalities
The The
Theatre of Hate
This Heat
Thompson Twins (early work)
The Three Johns
Throbbing Gristle
Tin Huey
Tones on Tail
Tuxedomoon
UK Decay
Ultravox
Violent Femmes
Voigt/465
Volcano Suns
Wall of Voodoo
Whirlywirld
Wire
Xero
XTC
Young Marble Giants
Zounds
and many more

 

List of post-punk revival bands ( Indie Rock )

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¡Forward, Russia!
1990s
Action Action
Algiers
Alice in Videoland
Ambulance LTD
Animal Collective
Apartment
Apollo Heights
L’arc~en~ciel
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Art Brut
Astral
Audra
The Automatic
Babyshambles
Band of Skulls
Battle
Baumer
Be Your Own Pet
Beach Fossils
Beastmilk
Bell Hollow
Bellmer Dolls
The Birthday Massacre
Big John Bates
The Black Angels
Black Ice
The Black Keys
Black Kids
Black Lips
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Tie Dynasty
Black Wire
Blacklist
Bloc Party
The Blood Arm
Bombay Bicycle Club
Born Ruffians
The Boxer Rebellion
Boy Kill Boy
The Bravery
British Sea Power
Bunny Lake
Le Butcherettes
Cage The Elephant
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Cazals
Los Campesinos!
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Ceremony
Chai
The Chalets
Chapel Club
The Chavs
The Chinese Stars
Chromatics
Chvrches
The Cinematics
Cities In Dust
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clearlake
Clinic
Clor
The Cloud Room
Cold War Kids
Colder
Communique
The Courteeners
The Cribs
Cut Copy
Cut Off Your Hands
Dandy Warhols
The Dead 60s
Dead Disco
Death Cab For Cutie
Death From Above 1979
Deerhunter
The Departure
Desperate Journalist
Detachment Kit
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Pretty Things
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Dogs
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
The Doves
Dragons
The Dreaming
Drowners
The Drums
Duchess Says
Los Dynamite
Eagulls
Editors
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Electric Six
Eliot Sumner
Elefant
Empire of the Sun
Enon
Entertainment
Erase Errata
Every Move a Picture
The Faint
The Fashion
Film School
Fine China
Fight Like Apes
The Foals
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
Frausdots
French Films
French Kicks
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Frog Eyes
Future Islands
The Futureheads
Les Georges Leningrad
Get Shakes
Girls Names
Githead
Glasvegas
GoGoGo Airheart
Good Shoes
Goribor
The Gossip
The Grates
Grizzly Bear
Handsome Furs
Hard-Fi
Hatcham Social
Los Hermanos
The Hives
The Hold Steady
The Horrors
Hot Hot Heat
Humanzi
Hypernova
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Iceage
Idles
Ikara Colt
Infadels
The Intelligence
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Interpol
The Jane Bradfords
Japanese Cartoon
Japanther
Jarboli
Jemina Pearl
Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers
The Joy Formidable
Joywave
Jupiter One
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
The Killers
Kill Hannah
The Kills
Kings of Leon
Kittens for Christian
The Klaxons
The Kooks
Ladytron
Lansing-Dreiden
The Last Shadow Puppets
Late of the Pier
LCD Soundsystem
Le Tigre
The Liars
The Libertines
Lifelover
The Little Flames
Little Man Tate
Local Natives
The Long Blondes
The Longcut
Longwave
The Lost Patrol
Lostprophets
Louis XIV
Love Is All
Love of Diagrams
Low Art Thrill
The Maccabees
Made in Japan
Mahogany
Mando Diao
Mannequin Depressives
The Mary Onettes
Maxïmo Park
Melody Club
Men, Women & Children
Metric
MGMT
Milburn
Minus the Bear
Modest Mouse
Monsters Are Waiting
Morningwood
Moving Units
Murder By Death
Mute Math
Mystery Jets
The Naked and Famous
The National
Neils Children
Neptune
New Pornographers
The Nervous Return
Nežni Dalibor
Nightmare of You
Noisettes
Numbers
Obojeni Program
OK Go
The Open
The Organ
The Oxfam Glamour Models
Parquet Courts
Passion Pit
Pete and the Pirates
Phantom Planet
Phase
Phoenix
The Photo Atlas
Pigeon Detectives
Pilot to Gunner
Pin Me Down
Pink Grease
The Pink Spiders
P.K. 14
A Place to Bury Strangers
Placebo
Polysics
The Postal Service
Preoccupations
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Prids
Protomartyr
Q and Not U
Ra Ra Riot
Radio 4
The Rakes
The Rapture
The Rascals
The Raveonettes
Repetitor
Reverend and the Makers
Revolting Cocks
The Rifles
Rival Schools
The Robocop Kraus
Robots In Disguise
Rock Kills Kid
Satisfact
Savages
Les Savy Fav
Scanners
Scatter The Ashes
Selfish Cunt
Serena Maneesh
She Wants Revenge
The Sheila Divine
The Shins
Shiny Toy Guns
SHITDISCO
Silversun Pickups
Six Finger Satellite
Sledgeback
Sluts of Trust
Snow Patrol
Snowden
Soledad Brothers (band)
Soulwax
The Sounds
A Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Spoon
Starflyer 59
The Static Jacks
Stellastarr*
The Stills
The Strokes
Stylex
Surfer Blood
Supernaut
Switches
The Temper Trap
Tereu Tereu
Terry Poison
Thee Oh Sees
The Thermals
These New Puritans
Those Manic Seas
Three Dollar Bill
The Thrills
Thriving Ivory
Thunderbirds are Now!
Tigers Jaw
Titus Andronicus
Tokyo Police Club
The Tossers
Trembling Blue Stars
TV on the Radio
The Twilight Sad
Twisted Wheel
Two Door Cinema Club
Uh Huh Her
The Unicorns
The Vaccines
Vampire Weekend
Van She
Tom Vek
Vernian Process
VHS or Beta
The Vines
The Violets
The Virgins
Vola and the Oriental Machine
The Von Bondies
Vue
The Walkmen
Walter Meego
The Warlocks
Wavves
We Are the Physics
We Are Scientists
We Have Band
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Weep
The Whip
White Lies
White Rabbits
White Rose Movement
The White Stripes
Wild Beasts
Wilderness
Witch Hats
Wolf Parade
The Wombats
Women
Xiu Xiu
The xx
XX Teens
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Young Knives
The Young Werewolves
The Zutons

 

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