List of musicians in the second wave of punk music - Definition and Overview

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)

• 16 Stitches
• The Adolescents
• AFI
• Against All Authority
• Against Me!
• Agent Orange
• All
• The All-American Rejects
• Amen 81
• Antidote
• Anti-Flag
• Anti-Nowhere League
• Anti-Scrunti Faction
• The Æffect
• Atari Teenage Riot
• The Ataris
• Bad Religion
• Barseros
• Big Black
• Bedlam Hour
• Beerzone
• Bikini Kill
• Blink-182
• Blue Meanies
• Bored Suburban Youth
• Bouncing Souls
• Brand New
• Bratmobile
• The Butchies
• Canalterror
• The Casualties
• Choking Victim
• The Circle Jerks
• Citizen Fish
• Coca Carola
• The Cult
• Cro-Mags
• Daily Terror
• Dead Milkmen
• The Descendents
• Destyl
• Discharge
• D.O.A.
• Die Dödelhaie
• Drei Flaschen
• Dritte Wahl
• Dropkick Murphys
• Electric Frankenstein
• The Faction
• Fifth Column
• fIREHOSE
• Flipper
• Flogging Molly
• Frenzal Rhomb
• Fugazi
• Government Issue
• Green Day
• Guttermouth
• The Hellacopters
• Hi-Standard
• Hammerhead
• The Hanson Brothers
• Happy Campers
• De Heideroosjes
• Horrorpop
• Hot Snakes
• Hüsker Dü
• Jesus Skins
• Julie Ruin
• Justincase
• Billy Idol
• Die Kassierer
• Klamydia
• Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
• Le Shok
• Leningrad (band)
• Lit
• Die Lokalmatadore
• Long Beach Dub Allstars
• Lower Class Brats
• Lost World
• Lunachicks
• Male
• Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
• Meat Puppets
• Mest
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Millions Of Dead Cops
• Milton (Lock Haven, PA)
• Minor Threat
• The Minutemen
• Mission of Burma
• Molotow Soda
• Mr. Bungle
• Müllstation
• My Chemical Romance
• The Need
• Nerf Herder
• Neon King Kong
• Nobody's Heroes
• NOFX
• No Means No
• No Use for a Name
• The Offspring
• Operation Ivy
• Pansy Division
• Pennywise
• Picture Frame Seduction
• Pöbel und Gesocks (former Beck's Pistols)
• Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Propagandhi
• Protein
• Public Image Limited/PiL
• The Queers
• Quincy Punx
• Rancid
• Real McKenzies
• Redd Kross
• Reducers SF
• The Replacements
• Rites of Spring
• Die Ruhrpottkanaken
• Henry Rollins
• Samiam
• Sex Mutants
• Screeching Weasel
• Shortfuse
• SNFU
• Sick of it All
• Sleater-Kinney
• The Smutt Peddlers
• Social Distortion
• The Spermbirds
• The Stitches
• Strung Out
• S.T.U.N
• Sublime
• Sonic Youth
• Sugarcult
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Swingin' Utters
• Team Dresch
• Terrorgruppe
• Tilt
• Total Chaos
• Tribe 8
• True Sounds Of Liberty
• 1208
• The Unseen
• The Uses
• The Vandals
• Violent Femmes
• U.S. Bombs
• Vexation
• The Vibrators
• V-Mann Joe
• Walter Elf
• WIZO
• WWK
• Zablujena generacija
• ZK
• ZZZ Hacker