It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New Wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Their early work is often regarded as some of the most challenging and innovative music of the post-punk era.

PiL's second album is generally regarded as their best, as well as one of the most influential albums of the post-punk era.

They were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their single " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

In 1983 they released the mini album Blood Red River which was an influential record of the post-punk era.

This cassette featured a wide range of groups, reflecting the different approaches of the immediate post-punk era.

" Rolling Stone called it " a landmark of jangly, guitar-driven avant-pop, and its shimmersing sound can still be heard in bands like R. E. M .." PopMatters wrote that the album " stands as a wildly inventive and influential record that stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the best music of the American post-punk era.

This film, directed by Edo Bertoglio, written and produced by Glenn O ' Brien with post-production in 1999-2000 by Maripol, is a rare real-life snapshot of ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan.

Variety called it “ an extraordinary real-life snapshot of hip, arty, clubland Manhattan in the post-punk era .”

Although, like all of This Heat's releases, it sold poorly, Deceit is now seen as a classic of the post-punk era comparable in quality and invention with Closer, Chairs Missing or Metal Box.

The gloomy sound of this era ( post-punk guitars, grim lyrics ) found little support in mainstream media.

in 1984 on Enigma Records, which continued the post-punk direction and finished this era with Revenge in 1986, which featured more polished production but still kept some punk and hardcore tunes.

Influenced by the disparate likes of T. Rex and the German krautrock outfit, Can, they created a new soundscape that would be heavily mined by others in the post-punk era.

The first, from 1978 to 1980, was part of the underground music of the 1970s, while punk was making their last hits in Britain, when the band, named Fàshiön Music, released experimental post-punk rock and like-reggae / ska oriented songs ; and was also characterized by the presence of lead vocalist and guitarist Luke Sky, who left in 1980, ending with that first era.

The mixture of openly Neopagan lyrics, occultism, and the counter-cultural impulses of the post-punk era would create fertile soil for the inspiration of several bands that would form from the late 1980s forward.

Critic Jason Ankeny declares that " Weston's name and fingerprints are all over the American underground rock of the post-punk era, producing and engineering dates for a seemingly endless number of bands.

Inspired by the post-punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mannequin Depressives set out to essentially duplicate the sound of the early 80s New Wave era, while combining modern elements.

The term " post-punk " was originally coined to describe groups of this era who took punk and experimented with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance.

At the turn of the century, the term " post-punk " began to appear in the music press again, with a number of critics reviving the label to describe a new set of bands that shared some of the aesthetics of the original post-punk era.

The band didn't survive long, but it spun off several well-known post-punk acts.

Smoothing the edges of their style in the direction of New Wave, several post-punk bands such as New Order ( descended from Joy Division ), The Cure, and U2 crossed over to a mainstream U. S. audience.

* September 20 – September 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Festival ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the Punk Movement's introduction into mainstream culture.

The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys ( 1979 ); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom.

Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists.

After several line-up changes, The Fartz evolved into the post-punk band 10 Minute Warning, for which McKagan played guitar.

Interpol, having first performed at Luna Lounge along with other notable bands like The Strokes, Longwave, The National and stellastarr, is one of the bands associated with the New York City indie music scene, and was one of several groups that emerged out of the post-punk revival of the 2000s.

The Zodiac has also been host to many different club nights, including Source ( a drum and bass night ), Slide ( a house night ), Smashdisco ( a post-punk indie electronight on Thursdays ), Transformation ( an indie rock night ), Trashy ( a Retro Pop night ) and also several student nights including Fuzzy Ducks and Pop Ya Cherry.

The album was among several experimental post-punk recordings directly inspired by the Afrobeat of bandleader Fela Kuti.

He was a founding member of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes and has recorded several solo albums and soundtracks.

The group cited several influences, including the sound of The Stranglers, as well as the 1980s post-punk movement ( for example the notable nod to Depeche Mode on Foje's 1989 electronica album Žodžiai į Tylą ).

Dan Wendt, sometimes known as Coach Hands or Danny Hands, later played in the experimental post-punk band Lights Out Gang and currently drums in Chicago with several bands including Sawbuck, The Congregation and Cakewalk Champion.

were a post-punk group, founded in Leeds, England in 1979 under the name The Butterflies, who had several UK Indie Chart hits.

The birth of indie pop can be traced back to the post-punk explosion in limited-circulation photocopied fanzines, and small shop-based record labels such as London's Rough Trade Records and Glasgow's Postcard Records.

The genre of post-punk is often considered a " catchall category for underground, indie, or lo-fi guitar rock " bands which " initially avoided major record labels in the pursuit of artistic freedom, and out of an ' us against them ' stance towards the corporate rock world ", spreading " west over college station airwaves, small clubs, fanzines, and independent record stores.

During 1976 – 77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds ' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures.

Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock / post-punk and synthpop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.

Despite this, many post-grunge bands adopted a hard rock sound and in the 2000s there came a renewed interest in established bands, attempts at a revival, and new hard rock bands that emerged from the garage rock and post-punk revival scenes.

Early guitar-based punk rock that came to prominence in the period 1976-77 was initially hostile to the " inauthentic " sound of the synthesizer, but many New Wave and post-punk bands that emerged from the movement began to adopt it as a major part of their sound.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's sound combined the Velvet Underground's " melancholy noise " with Beach Boys pop melodies and Phil Spector's " Wall of Sound " production, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music.

All the artists involved in Live At Target were experimenting with atonality, noise and concepts not common until post-punk groups emerged later.

During 1976 – 77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds ' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures.

The Jesus and Mary Chain wrapped their pop melodies in walls of guitar noise, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music, forging the alternative dance style.

In the 2000s genres that emerged into the mainstream included emo, metalcore and there was a Garage rock / post-punk revival.

If hardcore most directly pursued the stripped down aesthetic of punk, and new wave came to represent its commercial wing, post-punk emerged in the later 1970s and early 80s as its more artistic and challenging side.

The Jesus and Mary Chain wrapped their pop melodies in walls of guitar noise, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music, forging the alternative dance style.

In Camera were a London-based post-punk band who emerged in the summer of 1978.