The Best Streetpunk Bands

Streetpunk artists list, with photos, ranked best to worst by votes. List of good streetpunk bands includes a filter so you can sort by the groups’s label and what albums they've put out. This list of the top streetpunk bands in the world includes all musicians who have released recordings that have gotten distribution, and is an up-to-date list. Streetpunk groups and artists are shown below along with any additional genres in which their music belongs. If available, you can also see information about where all streetpunk bands on this list got started. These are truly the greatest streetpunk bands of all time, since the most famous streetpunk artists ever are listed, and the order is decided by actual fans of the best streetpunk music.

You can click on the streetpunk band names to see more information about that particular notable streetpunk group. If they're near the top of the best streetpunk artist list, though, then they should have at least some information available. All the top streetpunk bands named on the list also have discographies on their pages if you click on the streetpunk band names themselves.

List ranges from The Unseen to The Analogs, plus much more. Upvote your favorite artists and downvote the worst to see the best at the top. Do Bombshell Rocks or Roger Miret and The Disasters belong on this list? If so, vote for them.

All important, significant and iconic names in streetpunk music history deserve your votes, so make sure to choose wisely. You can only vote once on this list.

The list includes all new streetpunk bands, and if there are any missing on the list, you can always add them yourself. Just make sure they aren't already on the list and check your spelling, because this is already an accurate compilation of the best examples of streetpunk, as well as a good place to start if you're asking yourself, or friends, exactly how to get into streetpunk music. Especially since the bands at the top of the list will at the very least be the best choices if you're looking for a list of good streetpunk bands with which to start out. No point in listening to them if they aren't actually good or even half-way decent streetpunk bands.

This list answers the questions "who are the best streetpunk bands of all time?" and "who is the greatest streetpunk musician ever?"

If you know enough about the genre, please vote based on the quality of the band's music instead of just voting for the most popular streetpunk bands that you might've heard of, but not really listened to closely enough to cast an informed vote.

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  • Slaughter and The Dogs
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    Slaughter & the Dogs are an English punk rock band that formed in the mid 1970s in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England. They were one of the first UK punk bands to sign with a major label, Decca Records.
    • Genres (Music): Punk rock, Oi!
    • Albums: The Slaughterhouse Tapes, The Best of Slaughter and the Dogs, Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone?, Cranked Up Really High, Barking Up the Right Tree
  • Angelic Upstarts
    Photo: Dries Willems / Flickr
    Angelic Upstarts are an English punk rock band formed in South Shields in 1977. Allmusic calls them "one of the period's most politically charged and thought-provoking groups". The band espoused an anti-fascist and socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the skinhead subculture. The band released eight studio albums in their first decade. After a brief split they reformed in 1988, and a number of times subsequently, with new albums appearing in 1992, 2002, 2011, and 2016. More than two decades after its release, their debut single, "The Murder Of Liddle Towers", was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time.
    • Genres (Music): Punk rock, Oi!
    • Albums: Teenage Warning, The Dirty Dozen, Blood on the Terraces / Lost and Found, Last Tango in Moscow, Reason Why?
  • Cock Sparrer
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    3
    22 votes
    Cock Sparrer is a punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London, England. Although they have never enjoyed commercial success, they are considered one of the most influential streetpunk bands of all time, helping pave the way for the late-1970s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre. Their songs have been covered by many punk, Oi!, and hardcore bands. Their style was influenced by pub rock, glam rock and raw 1960s beat music as delivered by bands like the Small Faces and The Who. Their lyrics mostly dealt with topics related to the daily lives of working class people. Their name derives from their original name, Cock Sparrow, a Cockney term of familiarity.
    • Genres (Music): Punk rock, Oi!
    • Albums: Two Monkeys, Shock Troops, Here We Stand, Guilty as Charged, True Grit
  • The Last Resort
    Photo: flickr / CC0
    • Albums: A Way of Life: Skinhead Anthems, Death or Glory, Violence in Our Minds, King of the Jungle, This Is My England - Skinhead Anthems III
  • Cockney Rejects
    Photo: user uploaded image
    Cockney Rejects are an English punk rock band that formed in the East End of London in 1978. Their 1980 song "Oi, Oi, Oi" was the inspiration for the name of the Oi! music genre. The band members are loyal supporters of West Ham United, and pay tribute to the club with their hit cover version of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", a song traditionally sung by West Ham supporters.
    • Genres (Music): Street punk, Heavy metal, Punk rock, Oi!
    • Albums: Unforgiven, Join The Rejects: The Zonophone Years '79 - '81, The Punk Singles Collection, Oi! Oi! Oi!, Back on the Street
  • The Business
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    6
    15 votes
    The Business were an English oi! band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. The band lasted for four decades until their frontman Micky Fitz died from cancer in December 2016.
    • Genres (Music): Punk rock, Oi!
    • Albums: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, The Complete Singles Collection, No Mercy for You