Mr. Strummer's new, young band, the Mescaleros, intermingled punk guitar and dance beats in the style of Manchester bands like Happy Mondays.

In Rage's case, anti-establishment positions feed the weight of hip-hop beats and the stun-power of punk guitar; the band strategically uses lyrics and images to support various leftist causes.

The group combines layered female shouts, distorted beats, and punk guitars with feminist and anarcho-political lyrical themes.

Their unique sound combines electronic elements with French pops style vocals, noisy punk guitars with poppy keyboard melodies.

"Man With a Mission" featured a slide guitar part over a standard punk guitar "gallop".

Bondage," with Poly Styrene blurting her taunts in a rush of punk guitars and honking saxophone.

Musically, the band continues the thick punk guitar of Mould's previous band, Hüsker Dü, while slowing the tempo and emphasizing melody even more.

LA Weekly called the album an "appealingly trippy fusion of funk grooves, punk guitar and soul vocals", and "a left-field stunner".

Le Hoodoo Gurus unorthodox line-up of three guitars and no bass player, fused pop melodies, punk guitars and an American trash culture ethic.

Featuring "a rush of punk guitars, '60s pop hooks, blaring British horns, controlled fury, and postmodern humor", "Popscene" was a turning point for the band musically.