List of Christian punk bands
This is a list of Christian punk bands, which include all notable Christian bands that fall under the category of punk or one of its subgenres, excluding hardcore genres. Christian hardcore bands are listed on the list of Christian hardcore bands.
Traditional punk rock bands
Christian bands that were part of or draw from traditional punk rock.
Post-punk and new wave bands
Artists associated with post-punk and new wave in Christian music.
- 4-4-1
- The 77s[6][7][8]
- Altar Boys[9][10]
- Audio Adrenaline[11]
- The Choir[8]
- Crash Rickshaw[12]
- Daniel Amos
- Danielson[13][14]
- The Deadlines[15]
- Edison Glass[16]
- Jonezetta[17][18]
- Joy Electric[19][20][21]
- Mae[22]
- Ninety Pound Wuss
- Neon Horse[23]
- Queens Club[24]
- Quickflight
- Scaterd Few[25]
- Starflyer 59[26][27]
- Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil
- Switchfoot[22]
- Steve Taylor
- Transformatix
- Undercover (early)[28]
- Vector[8]
Pop punk bands
Pop punk and emo pop bands and artists in Christian music.
- 180 Out
- Ace Troubleshooter
- Amber Pacific
- Anberlin[29][30]
- ATTWN[31]
- Bleach[32][33]
- Blenderhead[34]
- Capital Lights[35][36]
- The Classic Crime[37][38]
- Craig's Brother[39]
- Dakoda Motor Co.[40]
- David Crowder Band[41][42]
- The Deadlines[43][44]
- Dogwood (fourth album)[45][46]
- Eisley[47]
- Eleventyseven
- Everyday Sunday
- False Idle
- Fighting Jacks[48]
- FM Static
- The Fold
- Forever Changed
- Ghoti Hook[49]
- Halo Friendlies[50][51]
- Hangnail
- Hawk Nelson (early)[52][53]
- House of Heroes[54][55]
- The Huntingtons[56]
- I Am Empire[57][58]
- Icon for Hire[59]
- Inhabited[60]
- Ivoryline[61][62]
- Jesse & The Rockers
- Joy Electric[63]
- The Juliana Theory[64]
- Kids in the Way[65]
- Kiros[66]
- Last Tuesday
- Mae
- Krystal Meyers (early)[67][68][69]
- MxPx
- Ninety Pound Wuss
- Number One Gun[70][71]
- The O.C. Supertones
- Owl City[72]
- PAX217[73]
- Peter118
- Philmont
- Philmore[74]
- Plankeye[75]
- Poor Old Lu
- Queens Club[76]
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (current)[77]
- Relient K
- Roper
- Run Kid Run
- Same as Sunday
- Sanctus Real[78]
- Search the City[79]
- Side Walk Slam[80]
- Slick Shoes[81]
- Stellar Kart
- Superchick[82]
- Squad Five-O[83][84]
- This Beautiful Republic[85]
- The Undecided
- Undercover[86][87]
- The W's[88]
- Watashi Wa[89]
- The Wedding
See also
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The Choir were among several bands including Daniel Amos, ... the 77's and Vector that put a uniquely Christian spin on the New Wave genre throughout the '80's.
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[the Altar Boys were] a group who found a particular Christian youth culture niche in post-punk rock abrasion...
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[Audio Adrenaline offers] another set of super-charged, funk-punk with religious overtones.
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The band sounds nothing like Project 86, but is post-punk meets old-school punk at its melodic best.
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An avant-post-punk family act...
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Darkwave garage rockers The Deadlines came together with their love of pulsating rock growling and eyeliner in 1998, all in an effort to redefine the state of music.
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Somehow [Edison Glass has] blended '70s prog rock, '80s new wave...
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...[Jonezetta are] beholden to the big rock sound of the '80s, post-punk/new wave...
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Instead, they specialize in electronically drenched dance-punk...
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...the hopeful new wave/electronic pop genius of Ronnie Martin's band [Joy Electric]...
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Instead of the new-wave classics one might expect [Joy Electric to cover]...
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...The Art and Craft of Popular Music echoes shiny, bright new wave ambience.
- 1 2 Breimeier, Russ. "Destination: Beautiful". The Fish. Christianity Today. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
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...the band's quirky mix of...hard rock playfulness and early-'80s new wave revivalism...
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[On this album] Scaterd Few summoned a mad-scientist hybrid of dub, reggae, post-punk...
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...Again, for the First Time was a fun pop/punk release.
- ↑ Stafford, James (May 2001). "Figureheads On The Forefront Of Pop Culture". Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
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- ↑ Jones, Ewan. "Capital Lights - This Is An Outrage!". Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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...[T]he album mostly stays away from the pop-punk/post-hardcore blend the band is known for.
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David Crowder Band: Peppy guitar-driven worship music mixing pop- punk guitars with explicitly religious lyrics.
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They played tough, grinding rock (“You Are My Joy”) and pop-punk (“Foreverandever Etc.”).
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House of Heroes eroded my hot ugly music critic breath with the first 5 tracks save the instrumental 4th (why do pop-punk bands think they need an instrumental song)...
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Huntingtons are also into "Jesus" and the Christian music scene, of which Ramones-flavored, pop-punk bands must be a very small part.
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...the pop rock/pop punk sounds of Blood and Water and I Am Empire.
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San Jose’s punk-emo-pop types I AM EMPIRE...
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The new songs are all...familiar to past Joy Electric staples of nostalgic ballads, fantastical pop-punk...
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Having begun with more punky and Brit-pop stylings...
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...an exhilarating display of punk pop energy.
- ↑ Farias, Andree. "Dying For a Heart". The Fish. Christianity Today. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
...[Heart employs] emo and pop-punk influences...
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With a high-energy sound that set the standard for emo-ish, pop-punk rock, Number One Gun toured the country...
- ↑ Cummings, Tony. "Ocean Eyes" (album review). Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
The bleepy, daydreaming emo pop of this Owatonna, Minnesota recluse...
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Pax 217 meld together a variety of styles - rock, reggae, pop, punk...
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Overall, the band sounds like they are having a blast playing their post-punk pop mix of swing-influenced ditties...
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