Spunkfool hail from Granollers (Barcelona) with one only objective: to mix punk, rock and dance music! With a fantastic live performance, they’re nonconformist, fresh and brazen. Their sound is close to the one of the 80’s and 90’s but through a cont…

Joy Division virtually defined the term "post-punk." They combined punk's rawness and iconoclasm with an artier sensibility that encompassed poetic lyrics, existentialism, and a dark moody mix of guitars and keyboards that was a major influence on go…

Born in the early 1980s out of the ashes of U.K. post-punk pioneers Joy Division, New Order became one of the first electro-pop bands to find mainstream success in the US. Their single "Blue Monday" was a landmark in dance music, and subsequent recor…

Enormously influential on both the music and club scene of late-1980s/early '90s England, the Happy Mondays emerged from singer Shaun Ryder's desire to merge the energy of dance music (distinct from funk) with the rawness of the post-punk era, filter…

Since their beginnings as a neo-psychedelic group in the late 1980s, Primal Scream has traveled a twisting path, with stops at indie rock, blues rock, dub, dance, and techno. Though mainman Bobby Gillespie (formerly of the Jesus and Mary Chain) and h…

Following in the footsteps their idols The Beatles, Oasis became a phenomenon in their home country in the 1990s. Taking the Fabs' template as a model, they added a thick wall of Pete Townshend-influenced guitars and stood at the vanguard of the mid-…

Identical twins Jay (John) and Mike Aston, ostensibly Gene Loves Jezebel, enjoyed cult appeal, largely within the UK gothic rock community, but achieved greater success in America. The pair grew up in the South Wales town of Porthcawl, together with …

Led by depressive pop prince Robert Smith, the Cure have taken their legions of fans on a journey from post-punk to gothic to new wave to art rock, stopping only for refills of hairspray along the way. An amazing band both live and in the studio, the…