This is a list of bands that are considered part of the second wave of punk rock, beginning in the early- (mid-) to late 1980s.
A AFI Agent Orange Alkaline Trio All Amebix Anti System Antidote Antisect Anti-Flag Anti-Establishment Anti-Nowhere League Anti-Scrunti Faction The Apostles Attila the Stockbroker
B Bad Brains Bad Religion Bickley Big Black Big Boys Big Drill Car Bikini Kill Blaggers I.T.A. Blatz Boikot Bored Suburban Youth Born Against Bouncing Souls Broken Bones
C The Casualties Chaotic Dischord Charged GBH Chemical People Chumbawamba Chaos UK Circle Jerks Citizen Fish Coca Carola Cockney Rejects Conflict Cows Crass Crimpshrine Cringer Cro-Mags Crucifucks Corrosion of Conformity
D D.O.A. Daisy Chainsaw Dayglo Abortions Dead Kennedys De Heideroosjes Dead Milkmen Descendents Die Ärzte Die Kassierer Dicks Discharge Down By Law Drei Flaschen Dritte Wahl
E Electric Frankenstein Eskorbuto Excuse 17 The Exploited
F Face to Face The Faction The Faith Fifteen Firehose Flatcat The Flatliners The Flesh Eaters Fleshies Flipper Flux of Pink Indians Frenzal Rhomb Frightwig Fugazi
G Good Riddance Government Issue Guttermouth Green Day
H Hammerhead Hi-Standard Hogan's Heroes The Honor System The Hope Bombs Horrorpops Hot Snakes Hot Water Music
J Janez Detd. The Julie Ruin Justin Scarred
K Killdozer Klamydia Kronstadt Uprising
L Lagwagon The Lawrence Arms Leningrad The Living End Longstocking The Loved Ones Lower Class Brats
M Magnapop The Marked Men Mary Ellis The Matches Meat Puppets The Menzingers Minor Threat Minutemen The Murder City Devils MDC Melvins Mob 47 Murphy's Law Mustard Plug Misfits Mission of Burma
N Nailpin Neck The Need Negative Approach New Bomb Turks Nomeansno No Use for a Name NOFX
O The Offspring One Man Army Operation Ivy Organ Thieves One Way System
P Pansy Division Pegboy Pennywise Peter and the Test Tube Babies The Phantom Limbs Phinius Gage Picture Frame Seduction Pinhead Gunpowder Protein Pulley Punchline The Punkles PUP
Q The Queers
R Rancid Reagan Youth The Real McKenzies Redd Kross Reel Big Fish The Riffs Rich Kids on LSD Rise Against RIOT 111 Rites of Spring Rollins Band Rudimentary Peni Rx Bandits
S Samhain Samiam The Scarred Scaterd Few Scratch Acid Screeching Weasel Seaweed Sham 69 She Devils Sheer Terror Sick of it All Sister George Slick Shoes Sloppy Seconds SNFU Social Distortion Soulside The Spermbirds Steve Bjorklund The Stitches Street Dogs Streetlight Manifesto Strung Out Subhumans (UK band) Suicidal Tendencies The Suicide Machines Sum 41 Swingin' Utters
T Tales of Terror Teen Idles Terrorgruppe The Scarred Toxic Waste T.S.O.L. Two Man Advantage The Templars The Transplants Total Chaos Toy Dolls
V The Vandals The Varukers
W Wizo Wrangler Brutes
Y The Young Werewolves
Z Zebrahead
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