Gli anni Ottanta/ The Eighties

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Canada Canada: Anvil (metal) Cowboy Junkies D.O.A. (hardcore) Download (industrial) Exciter (heavy metal) Jeff Healey (blues) Hilt (industrial) KD Lang (songwriter) Martha & The Muffins (new wave) Mary Margaret O'Hara (songwriter) Jane Siberry (songwriter) Skinny Puppy (industrial) 13 Engines (power-pop) Voivod (prog metal)

Australia Australia: Aints (punk) Beasts Of Bourbon Birthday Party (punk) Celibate Rifles (garage) Church (pop) Cruel Sea (pop) Dead Can Dance (gothic/medieval) Died Pretty (garage) Feedtime (garage) Foetus (industrial) Robert Forster Go-Betweens (pop) Hex Hoodoo Gurus (garage) Hunters And Collectors (pop) Inxs (dance) Jack Frost Steve Kilbey Peter Koppes Ed Kuepper Laughing Clowns Cyndi Lauper (dance) Lime Spiders (garage) Grant McLennan Midnight Oil (pop) New Christs (garage) New Race (garage) Tex Perkins Radio Birdman (punk) Saints (punk) Salamander Jim Kim Salmon Scientists (garage) Severed Heads (industrial) SPK (industrial) Someloves (power-pop) Stems (garage) Steroid Maximus (industrial) Surrealists TISM (dance-pop) Triffids Marty Willson-Piper Wiseblood

New Zealand New Zealand: Bats Chills Clean Chris Knox Jean Paul Sartre Experience Split Enz Tall Dwarfs Wreck Small Speakers

Japan Japan: After Dinner High Rise Hijokaidan YBO2 Gerogerigegege Masonna Hiroshi Yoshimura (ambient)

Mediterranean France: Eskaton Jean-Marc Foussat (noise) Hellebore (prog-rock) Les Thugs (punk) Minimal Compact Shub-Niggurath (progressive) Ghedalia Tazartes (songwriter) Mama Bea Tekielski Tamia Valmont (prog-rock) Hector Zazou (progressive) Spain: Esplendor Geometrico Italy: Ain Soph CCCP (hardcore) Confusional Quartet (hardcore) Diaframma Kirlian Camera Litfiba (punk) Negazione (hardcore) Pankow (industrial) Raw Power (punk) Skiantos (punk) Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (industrial)

Hungary Istvan Martha Russia Grazhdanskaya Oborona Scandinavia Bathory (black metal, Sweden) Candlemass (doom metal) Hanoi Rocks (garage-rock, Sweden) Kraldjursanstalten (new wave, Sweden) Yngwie Malmsteen (metal, Sweden) Mayhem (black metal, Norway) Michael Maksymenko (Sweden, new wave) Mercyful Fate (dark metal, Denmark) King Diamond (dark metal, Denmark) Turbonegro (punk-rock, Norway) 22-Pistepirkko (blues) When (industrial)

Germany Germany: Der Plan Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft Die Haut Die Krupps Die Todliche Doris Doc Wor Mirran Einsturzende Neubauten Thomas Fehlmann Peter Frohmader Nina Hagen Holger Hiller HNAS KMFDM Malaria Monoton Palais Schaumburg P16D4 Robert Schroder Software 39 Clocks Trio Xmal Deutschland

Switzerland Celtic Frost Liliput Yello Austria Blue Chip Orchestra (electronica)

Holland/ Belgium Holland: Ex (punk-rock) Gore (metal) Fay Lovsky (songwriter) Pestilence (death-metal) Die Form (industrial) Belgium: a;GRUMH... (industrial) Die Form (industrial) Front 242 (industrial)

England England: pub-rock & mod Dire Straits Eddie And The Hot Rods Jam Renaldo And The Loaf Snakefinger England: punk-rock Clash Damned Fall GBH Generation X Mekons Membranes Neurotics Nihilistics New Model Army Sex Pistols Sham 69 Slits UK Subs England: punk-pop Buzzcocks Homosexuals Three Johns Vibrators England: punk-folk Band Of Holy Joy Pogues Waco Bros England: Anarcho-punk Crass Discharge Rudimentari Peni Sore Throat Subhumans England: heavy metal Angel Witch Def Leppard Diamond Head Iron Maiden Judas Priest Motorhead Venom Whitesnake England: dark-punk Alien Sex Fiend Bauhaus Cassandra Complex Comsat Angels Cult Cure Death Cult Edith Grove Fields Of The Nephilim Gene Loves Jezebel Joy Division Killing Joke Love And Rockets Mission Murder Inc Passions Psychedelic Furs Public Image Ltd Section 25 Sex Gang Children Siouxsie Sioux Sisters Of Mercy Southern Death Cult Spear Of Destiny Stranglers Theatre of Hate Tones On Tail X-Ray Spex England: industrial Attrition British Electric Foundation Cabaret Voltaire Chris & Cosey Coil Cranioclast Cultural Amnesia Current 93 Dome Electronic Eye Fad Gadget Bruce Gilbert Hafler Trio He Said HoH Hula In The Nursery Richard Kirk Konstruktivists Les Jumeaux Lifetones Lustmord Metabolist Nocturnal Emissions Nurse With Wound Organum Psychic Tv Ramleh Sandoz Steven Stapleton Sweet Exorcist Test Dept This Heat Throbbing Gristle Cosey Fanni Tutti 23 Skidoo Whitehouse Zoviet France England: apocalyptic folk Death In June Sol Invictus England: free punk Anti Group Conspiracy Clock DVA Float Up Glaxo Babies Head Maximum Joy Pigbag Playgroup Pop Group Rip Rig & Panic Slab Mark Stewart Stump England: Dance-rock A Certain Ratio ABC Culture Club Family Fodder Japan Modern English England: synth-pop and dance Bomb The Bass Buggles Dead or Alive Depeche Mode Duran Duran Erasure Eurythmics Morgan Fisher Flying Lizards Heaven 17 Human League MARSS New Order Gary Numan Orchestral Manoeuvres Pet Shop Boys Pulp Recoil Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Talk Talk Thompson Twins Ultravox Midge Ure Visage Yazoo England: experimental Art Of Noise Blue Aeroplanes Denim Durutti Column Eyeless In Gaza Felt Adrian Legg Lemon Kittens Mark Knopfler Ludus Malcolm McLaren Colin Newman Raincoats Shock Headed Peters Swell Maps Wire Jah Wobble Woo (new age) Young Marble Giants England: progressive-rock Cardiacs David Cross Fish Eddie Jobson (electronic rock) Marillion Radius

England England: Songwriter Marc Almond Anne Anxiety Virginia Astley Martyn Bates Karl Blake Mark Burgess Sheila Chandra Elvis Costello Ian Dury Dave Edmunds Barbara Gogan Billy Idol Joe Jackson Lora Logic Nick Lowe Morrissey John Otway Graham Parker Simon Raymonde Rom Robinson Poly Styrene Pete Shelley Allison Statton Paul Weller (mod) Wreckless Eric England: Electronic songwriter Danielle Dax Thomas Dolby John Foxx Howard Jones Thomas Leer Annie Lennox Dave Stewart Tracey Thorn England: Dream-pop Cocteau Twins This Mortal Coil England: Garage-rock Barracudas Blackhands Billy Childish Milkshakes Natural Born Lovers Pop Rivets Prisoners Prime Movers Screaming Blue Messiah Thee Headcoats Thee Mighty Caesars England: Psychedelia Breathless Echo & The Bunnymen Electrafixion Ian McCulloch Glide Wah Edward Ka-Spel Katrina And The Waves Legendary Pink Dots Kimberley Rew Mighty Lemon Drops Will Sergeant Soft Boys Sound Teardrop Explodes Times Television Personalities Matt Johnson The The Wild Swans England: Ska, dub & reggae African Headcharge Beat - English Dub Syndicate Fine Young Cannnibals Fun Boy Three Madness New Age Steppers Police Adrian Sherwood Specials UB40 England: Funk and soul Terence D'Arby Elastic Purejoy Gang Of Four Shriekback Simply Red Strawberry Switchblade Tears For Fears Wolfgang Press England: lite-jazz Blurt Everything But The Girl Sade Scritti Politti Style Council Weekend England: pop Adam Ant Alarm Alternative TV Bananarama Big In Japan Doll By Doll Jazz Butcher Lucy Show Magazine Monochrome Set McCarthy Only Ones Oyster Band Prefab Sprout Primitives Proclaimers Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Smiths Squeeze Talulah Gosh (tweepop) Waterboys Wedding Present Woodentops XTC England: folk-pop Sad Lovers And Giants England: Manchester Chameleons James

Ireland Ireland: Boomtown Rats Fatima Mansions Microdisney Stiff Little Fingers That Petrol Emotion U2 Undertones Virgin Prunes Scotland Scotland: Altered Images Altres Associates Aztec Camera Biff Bang Pow Big Country Blue Nile Cindytalk Lloyd Cole Del Amitri Eugenius Paul Haig Josef K Orange Juice Pastels Shop Assistants Simple Minds Vaselines Weather Prophets

New York: new wave Richard Hell Jeff & Jane Hudson Lenny Kaye Richard Lloyd Patti Smith Suicide Television Tom Verlaine Voidoids New York: no wave A Certain General Agitpop (NY) Ambitious Lovers Antietam Band Of Susans (NY) Blind Idiot God Bush Tetras James Chance Circus Mort Contortions Controlled Bleeding Robin Lee Crutchfield Mark Cunningham Dark Day Del Byzanteen Das Damen DNA Anton Fier Mike Gira Golden Palominos Half Japanese Honeymoon Killers Ike Yard Jody Harris Hugo Largo Individuals Arto Lindsay Live Skull Lydia Lunch Mars Model Citizens Thurston Moore Mosquito Nice Strong Arm Pianosaurus Polyrock Robert Quine Lee Ranaldo Rat At Rat R Raybeats Skin Chamber Sonic Youth Teenage Jesus Swans UT Von Lmo Y Pants New York: progressive-rock Dr Nerve Electronic Art Ensemble Fish & Roses David Garland However Bill Laswell Lounge Lizards Evan Lurie John Lurie Massacre Material Mofungo Virgil Moorefield Ordinaires Steve Piccolo The Scene Is Now Shockabilly V-Effect New York: heavy metal Anthrax (speedmetal) Living Colour (hard-rock) Manowar Nuclear Assault (grindcore) Twisted Sister White Zombie (speedmetal) New York: songwriter Tracy Chapman Phil Gammage Marc Jeffrey Syd Straw Steven Van Zandt Alan Vega Suzanne Vega Matthew Young New York: hardcore Agnostic Front Adrenalin O.D. Crumbsuckers Ludichrist Lunachicks Misfits Plasmatics Testors Ramones Shelter Youth Of Today New York: Garage & psychedelic Band Of Outsiders Cheepskates Chesterfield Kings Corvairs Cramps DB's Fleshtones Fuzztones Limit Meat Loaf Panther Burns Plan 9 Brian Setzer Stray Cats They Might Be Giants Ultra Vivid Scene Vipers Zantees New York: roots-rock Absolute Grey Colorblind James Experience Del-Lords Hypnolovewheel Meat Loaf Pandora's Box Silos Jim Steinman 10,000 Maniacs New York: disco-punk Pat Benatar (NY discopunk) Blondie (NY discopunk) David Byrne Defunkt ESG Peter Gordon Craig Leon Liquid Liquid Love Of Life Orchestra Madonna Arthur Russell (disco) Talking Heads Tom Tom Club New York: rap Beastie Boys Gary Clail EPMD Eric B. & Rakim Fat Boys Jungle Funk Keith Leblanc Little Axe Run-DMC Strange Parcels Tackhead New Jersey Richard Barone Bon Jovi Bongos Cucumbers Pat DiNizio Dramarama (garage-rock) Feelies Gut Bank Health & Happiness Show Stevie Moore Smithereens (power-pop) Ben Vaughn Wake Ooloo Boston: progressive-rock Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Erik Lindgren Roger Miller Sleep Chamber Space Negros Boston: heavy metal Extreme Boston: songwriter Aimee Mann Jonathan Richman Boston: roots-rock Cars Christmas Del Fuegos Dogmatics Dumptruck Men & Volts Neighborhoods Salem 66 Scruffy The Cat Til' Tuesday Treat Her Right Volcano Suns Boston: garage-rock DMZ Dredd Foole Lyres Modern Lovers Real Kids Boston: psychedelia Dinosaur Jr Boston: alt-rock Girls Daved Hild Human Sexual Response Kustomized Pixies Zulus Boston: hardcore La Peste Mission Of Burma Pajama Slave Dancers Siege SS Decontrol Washington: progressive-rock Grits Happy The Man Kit Watkins Washington: hardcore GG Allin Bad Brains Dag Nasty Jeff Dahl Gang Green Government Issue Human Rights Jerry's Kids Junkyard Meatmen Minor Threat No Trend Pussy Galore Rites of Spring Scream Wool Washington Mary Chapin Carpenter Tommy Keene Muffins (prog) Slickee Boys (garage-rock) Mark Tucker (songwriter, Maryland) Velvet Monkeys Boston pentagra (doom-metal) Pennsylvania Cynics (garage-rock) Dead Milkmen (punk-rock) Executive Slacks (industrial) Hooters (roots-rock) Oho (new wave) Original Sins (garage-rock) Reds (punk-rock) Stickmen (funk-punk)

Los Angeles: psychedelia Dream Syndicate Droogs Gutterball Opal Rain Parade Steve Roback Salvation Army Savage Republic 17 Pygmies Shiva Burlesque Steppes Three O'Clock Russ Tolman True West Viva Saturn Yard Trauma Los Angeles: roots-rock Balancing Act Blasters Blood On The Saddle Bpeople Alex Gibson Go-Go's Gun Club Lone Justice Los Lobos Missing Persons Oingo Boingo Pandoras Pontiac Brothers Rank And File Rave-ups Red Cross Red Wedding Tex & The Horseheads Thelonious Monster Wall Of Voodoo Dwight Yoakam (country) Los Angeles: power-pop Bangles (LA) Barnes & Barnes Beat Last Nerves [Peter Case] Plimsouls Redd Kross Trotsky Icepick 20/20 Los Angeles: industrial & progressive Adrian Belew Nels Cline Djam Karet Drowning Pool Los Angeles Music Society Nervous Gender Non Null And Void Premature Ejaculation Boyd Rice Zoogz Rift Steve Vai Los Angeles: gothic rock Christian Death Chris Dejardins Flesh Eaters 45 Grave Kommunity Fk Shadow Project T.S.O.L. Urinals Rozz Williams Los Angeles: songwriter Dave Alvin Cindy Lee Berryhill Michael Bolton Lindsey Buckingham Belinda Carslile Peter Case Tony Childs Melissa Etheridge Don Henley Bruce Hornsby Maria McKee Stevie Nicks Tom Petty Sam Phillips Phranc Jeffrey Lee Pierce Stan Ridgway Paul Roessler Walter Salas-Humara Jules Shear Pat Smear Holly Vincent Lucinda Williams Victoria Williams Steve Wynn Los Angeles: garage-rock Gothic Hut Los Angeles: hardcore Adolescents Agent Orange All Angry Samoans Bad Religion Big Drill Car Black Flag Circle Jerks Descendents Dickies Dos Fear Germs Greg Ginn Gone Leaving Trains Legal Weapon M.I.A. [punk band] Minutemen Negative Trend NOFX Rich Kids On LSD Rik L. Rik Saccharine Trust (jazzcore) Screamers Social Distortion Suicidal Tendencies Universal Congress (jazzcore) Weirdos X Los Angeles: heavy metal Faster Pussycat Stuart Hamm Jesters of Destiny LA Guns Megadeth (speedmetal) Metallica (speedmetal) Motley Crue Saint Vitus (doom) Joe Satriani Slayer Van Halen W.A.S.P. Los Angeles: dance-pop Paula Abdul Berlin Stacey Q San Francisco: death metal Autopsy Death Angel Exodus Possessed Sadus Testament Vicious Rumour San Francisco: hardcore Avengers Jello Biafra Code Of Honor Dead Kennedys Crime D.R.I. Flipper Klaus Fluoride Frightwig MDC Nuns Sleepers Toiling Midgets Tragic Mulatto San Francisco: experimental Monte Cazazza Helios Creed Chrome Clubfoot Orchestra Factrix Longshoremen Ophelias President's Breakfast (dub) Slava Ranko Residents Rhythm And Noise Romeo Void Norman Salant Tuxedomoon Units Voice Farm Bob Wasserman Wilma San Francisco: songwriter Carmaig DeForest Greg Kihn Chris Isaak San Francisco: soul and funk Tony! Toni! Tone'! San Francisco: roots-rock Camper Van Beethoven Catheads Donner Party Downy Mildew Game Theory Neil Schon Thin White Rope Vomit Launch Wire Train San Diego Beat Farmers Mojo Nixon Oregon Dead Moon (garage-rock) Poison Idea (hardcore) Dan Reed Network (hard-rock) Greg Sage (songwriter) Miracle Workers (garage-rock) Wipers (garage-rock) Seattle: hardcore Accused Seattle: roots-rock Empty Set Green Pajamas Green River Minus 5 Moberlys Purple Outside Solomon Grundy Screaming Trees Walkabouts Young Fresh Fellows Seattle: heavy metal Sanctuary Giuffria Queensryche Nevermore House Of Lords

Chicago: hardcore Articles Of Faith Vic Bondi Effigies Eidolon Jones Very Naked Raygun Shellac Chicago: alt-rock Steve Albini Algebra Suicide Big Black Blitzoids Breaking Circus Chicago: psychedelic-rock Electric Peace Eleventh Dream Day Chicago: power-pop Cheap Trick Green Service Shoes Chicago: electronica Fossil Aerosol Mining Project Chicago: house Fingers Inc Robert Owens Frankie Knuckles Phuture Chicago: rap Ono Michigan Blight Easy Action Fix George-Edwards Group Laughing Hyenas Marshall Crenshaw Negative Approach Romantics (garage) Don Was Was Not Was Detroit: techno Juan Atkins Carl Craig Cybotron Derrick May Model 500 Kevin Saunderson Minnesota Steve Almaas Beat Rodeo Big Trouble House Husker Du Magnolias Replacements Rifle Sport Soul Asylum Suburbs Suicide Commandos Sussman Lawrence Things That Fall Down 27 Various Wisconsin BoDeans (roots) Boy Dirt Car (noise) Victor DeLorenzo (songwriter) Die Kreuzen (hardcore) EIEIO F/I (psych) John Frankovic (songwriter) Gordon Gano (songwriter) Killdozer (hardcore) Plasticland (psych) Brian Ritchie (songwriter) Tar Babies (hardcore) Violent Femmes (roots) Ohio Stiv Bators (songwriter) Dead Boys (punk-rock) Devo (new wave) Eastern Monkeys Electric Eels (new wave) Fates Warning (prog-metal) Gibson Brothers (garage) Great Plains Human Switchboard (new wave) Peter Laughner (songwriter) Lords Of The New Church (punk-rock) Mirrors Necros (punk-rock) Pere Ubu (new wave) Pretenders (garage) Rocket From The Tombs Royal Crescent Mob Rubber City Rebels Styrenes (new wave) Swollen Monkeys (new wave) David Thomas (songwriter) Tin Huey (new wave) Waitresses (new wave) Wolverton Brothers (garage) Indiana Bruce Anderson Gizmos MX-80 Sound O-Type Zero Boys Texas: songwriter Alejandro Escovedo Rosie Flores Jandek Evan Johns Daniel Johnston Kathy McCarty Michelle Shocked Texas: country Steve Earle George Strait Lyle Lovett Texas: punk-rock Big Boys Butthole Surfers Dicks P Poison 13 Really Red Scratch Acid Texas: hard-rock King's X Pantera Texas: roots-rock Glass Eye Eric Johnson (instrumental) Leroi Brothers Poi Dog Pondering Reivers ST 37 Tail Gators Texas Instruments Timbuk 3 Two Nice Girls Stevie Ray Vaughan Wild Seeds Arizona Caterwaul (folk-rock) Chris Cacavas (psychedelia) Cartoon (progressive) PFS (progressive) Flotsam & Jetsam (heavy metal) Green On Red (roots-rock) Junkyard Love Meat Puppets (psychedelia) Naked Prey (psychedelia) Chuck Prophet Sacred Reich (heavy metal) Dan Stuart Sun City Girls (psychedelia) Kentucky Long Ryders Squirrel Bait Tennessee Rosanne Cash (country) Jason & The Scorchers Patty Loveless Phantom Tollbooth Garth Brooks (country) Kansas/Missouri Jeff Eubank (singer-songwriter) Embarrassment (power-pop) Micronotz (hardcore) Georgia B52's Robert Cray Don Dixon (songwriter) Drivin'n'Cryin' (roots-rock) Amy Grant (songwriter) Guadalcanal Diary (roots-rock) Indigo Girls (roots-rock) Kevn Kinney (songwriter) LMNOP (roots-rock) Love Tractor (instrumental) Steve Morse (progressive) Pylon (roots-rock) R.E.M. (roots-rock) Swimming Pool Q's Trisha Yearwood (songwriter) South Carolina Dwarr (hard-rock) Wet Teens North Carolina Alaska Antiseen (hardcore) Connells Corrosion Of Conformity Mitch Easter Fetchin Bones Flat Duo Jets (revival) Let's Active Sneakers Southern Culture On The Skids (garage) Spongetones Chris Stamey Randy Travis (country) Florida: death metal Death Deicide Morbid Angel Obituary Virginia Alter Natives (jazzcore) Honor Role Hotel X House Of Freaks Idiot Savant Orthotonics Others Debris (Oklahoma) Dwight Twilley (Oklahoma) For Against (Nebraska) No Direction (South Dakota) Phantom 309 (Mississippi) Windbreakers (Mississippi) Batz Without Flesh (Delaware) Dash Rip Rock (Louisiana) Continental Drifters (Louisiana) Eliza Gilkyson (New Mexico) Pandemonium (Alaska metal) 7 Seconds (Nevada hardcore) Sex Clark Five (Alabama punk-pop) George Thorogood (Delaware blues) John Trudell (Nebraska) Vulgar Boatmen (Florida folk-pop) Miracle Legion (Connecticut folk-pop) Rap Afrika Bambaata Bobby Brown De La Soul Dr Dre (Los Angeles) Grandmaster Flash Hercules Ice Cube (Los Angeles) Janet Jackson Jungle Brothers LL Cool J Mantronix Marley Marl MC Hammer (San Francisco) MC Lyte N.W.A. (Los Angeles) Public Enemy Queen Latifah Schoolly D Sensational Stetsasonic Ultramagnetic MCs 2 Live Crew Soul Whitney Houston Middle East Rabih Abou-Khalil Ofra Haza India Shahid Parvez Africa Bhundu Boys Toumani Diabate Ermelo Lucky Dube Youssou N'Dour Salif Keita Cheb Khaled Angelique Kidjo (Benin) Kandia Kouyate Ray Lema Baaba Maal Orchestra Baobab Knono Teles Toure` Kunda Boubacar Traore Zap Mama