The flagship band for East German rock, Puhdys formed officially in 1969 in Oranienburg, although members of the band had been working together since 1965.

Skid Row is an American hard rock/heavy metal band which became one of the flagship bands of the late 1980s hard rock scene.

The Central Band of the Royal British Legion is the Legion's flagship band.

Mudhoney quickly became Sub Pop's flagship band.

All five members of the label's original flagship band, The National, hail from Cincinnati, Ohio.

New Order were the flagship band for Factory Records.

Along with the Toasters, Let's Go Bowling was then dubbed, on national television, one of the flagship bands of the genre.

Nirvana was considered the "flagship band of Generation X", and frontman Cobain found himself reluctantly anointed by the media as the generation's "spokesman."

Timbo has described his own label's history in terms of three eras, focused around three flagship bands.

They were one of the flagship bands of painter Pieter Schoolwerth's Wierd Records imprint.