These are bands that could be considered to be part of the 'second wave' of the punk rock movement, circa 1980 and after.
see: List of musicians by genre
(Please add to list in alphabetical order)
- The Adolescents
- Alkaline Trio
- All
- Adicts, The
- Anti-Flag
- The Æffect
- AFI
- The All-American Rejects
- The Ataris
- Bad Religion
- Big Black*
- Bedlam Hour
- Bikini Kill
- Blink-182
- Blue Meanies
- Bored Suburban Youth
- Bouncing Souls
- Box Car Racer
- Bratmobile
- The Butchies
- Chumbawamba
- The Circle Jerks
- Citizen Fish
- The Cult
- Cro-Mags
- Dead Kennedys
- Dead Milkmen
- Discharge
- DOA (band)
- Dropkick Murphys
- Electric Frankenstein
- Fear
- Flipper
- Fugazi
- Goldfinger
- Good Charlotte
- Green Day
- Guttermouth
- The Hellacopters
- Happy Campers
- Hot Snakes
- Hüsker Dü
- Justincase
- Billy Idol
- Lit
- Local H
- Long Beach Dub Allstars
- Lunachicks
- The Maystadt Process
- Meat Puppets
- Mest
- Millions Of Dead Cops
- Milton (Lock Haven, PA)
- Minor Threat
- Minutemen
- The Misfits
- Mission of Burma
- Mr. Bungle
- MxPx
- The Need
- New Found Glory
- Nerf Herder
- NOFX
- No Use for a Name
- Operation Ivy
- Pansy Division
- the Pixies
- Powerman 5000
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Printed Blanks
- Propagandhi
- Protein
- Public Image Limited/PiL
- Pennywise
- The Offspring
- Rancid
- The Replacements
- Rites of Spring
- Samiam
- Sex Mutants
- Shortfuse
- SNFU
- Sick of it All
- Sleater-Kinney
- Smutt Peddlers, The
- Social Distortion
- Strung Out
- S.T.U.N
- Sublime
- Sonic Youth
- Sugarcult
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Sum 41
- Team Dresch
- Tilt
- Tribe 8
- 1208
- The Unseen
- The Used
- The Vandals
- The Violent Femmes
- UP SyNDROME
- The Vibrators
See also
- Pre-Punk Bands (ca. 1968-1976)
- Early Punk Bands (ca. 1976-1980)
- Punk Films
- List of punk cities
- Related genres: