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Post-punk revival (also known as indie rock revival) [1] is a genre or movement of indie rock that emerged in the early 2000s as musicians started to play a stripped down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk, new wave and garage rock.
During the late '90s and early 2000s, a rash of bands -- including Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, the Strokes, and the Rapture -- surfaced with clear indebtedness to post-punk and new wave, bearing inspirations like Blondie, Gang of Four, Joy Division, and Wire.
Post-Punk Revival. AKA: New Wave Revival • 3,429 releases. Incorporating the sounds and aesthetics of Post-Punk into Indie Rock, with jagged guitarwork, a dominant and danceable rhythm section, clean production, and poppy song structures.
Dec 21, 2022 · It’s hard to pinpoint precisely when post-punk faded away, but in the late ’90s and early ’00s—during the height of nu-metal and arena pop/rock—New York gave birth to a post-punk revival.
May 6, 2021 · On thrilling debut albums by Squid, Dry Cleaning and Black Country, New Road, the aftershocks of '80s post-punk tremble against stark new realities in British and Irish life. Accessibility...
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Sep 22, 2020 · Post-punk has its fingerprints on almost all of independent rock music: grunge bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana, Britpop acts like Oasis and Suede and indie guitar bands like the Smiths or...
Post-punk revival (also known as indie rock revival) is a genre or movement of indie rock that emerged in the early 2000s as musicians started to play a stripped down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk, new wave and garage rock.