Post by Mimzy on Jul 16, 2010 17:49:30 GMT -5
The post-punk revival was a development in alternative rock of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which bands took inspiration from the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk of the late 1970s.[1]
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The term "post-punk" was originally coined to describe those groups which in the late 1970s and early 1980s took punk and started to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance, such as Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Public Image Ltd., Gang of Four, XTC, The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen. 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 Libertines, The Rapture,[2] The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Editors, We Are Scientists, The Killers, Placebo, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party were the first commercially successful projects to revive media interest in the movement. This second wave of post-punk incorporates elements of dance music and genres that are part of dance punk in much the same way that the original post-punk movement was influenced by Krautrock, Dub and Disco of the 1970s. Music critic Simon Reynolds notes that many of these bands draw particular influence from the more angular strain of post-punk such as Wire and Gang of Four.[3]
Contents
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* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links
[edit] History
The term "post-punk" was originally coined to describe those groups which in the late 1970s and early 1980s took punk and started to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance, such as Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Public Image Ltd., Gang of Four, XTC, The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen. 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 Libertines, The Rapture,[2] The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Editors, We Are Scientists, The Killers, Placebo, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party were the first commercially successful projects to revive media interest in the movement. This second wave of post-punk incorporates elements of dance music and genres that are part of dance punk in much the same way that the original post-punk movement was influenced by Krautrock, Dub and Disco of the 1970s. Music critic Simon Reynolds notes that many of these bands draw particular influence from the more angular strain of post-punk such as Wire and Gang of Four.[3]