Genre in a city
The 37 most-read punk rock artists based in Chicago, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.
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37 artists are tagged punk rock in Chicago. 1 entered the top 50 this month. The biggest move was AM Taxi, up 3 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Exene Cervenkapunk rock | 26,533 | 0 |
02 | Rise Againstmelodic hardcore, punk rock | 22,532 | 0 |
03 | Screeching Weaselpop punk, skate punk | 5,228 | +1 |
04 | Dwarvespunk rock, garage punk | 4,942 | -1 |
05 | Rapemanpunk rock | 3,100 | +1 |
06 | Naked Raygunpost-hardcore, punk rock | 2,762 | +1 |
07 | Knuckle Puckemo, punk | 2,145 | +1 |
08 | Sincere Engineerindie rock, punk rock | 1,865 | -3 |
09 | The Lawrence Armspunk rock | 1,804 | +1 |
10 | Smoking Popespop punk, indie rock | 1,717 | -1 |
11 | 88 Fingers Louiepunk rock, skate punk | 1,444 | 0 |
12 | The Effigiespunk rock | 1,059 | 0 |
13 | Jeff Pezzatipunk rock | 922 | +1 |
14 | Pegboypunk, punk rock | 840 | -1 |
15 | Danny Vapidpunk rock | 662 | 0 |
16 | Baxterpunk rock | 516 | 0 |
17 | AM Taxialternative rock, punk rock | 343 | +3 |
18 | Rollo Tomasipunk rock | 317 | 0 |
19 | Tuesdaypunk rock | 304 | +3 |
20 | Pierre Kezdypunk rock | 277 | +3 |
21 | The Honor Systempunk rock | 261 | -4 |
22 | The Vindictivespunk rock | 258 | -2 |
23 | October Fallpunk rock | 248 | +2 |
24 | The Bombpunk rock | 220 | +2 |
25 | Meat Wavepunk rock | 216 | -1 |
26 | The Broadwayspunk rock, rock | 193 | -7 |
27 | Strike Underpunk rock | 168 | +1 |
28 | Crashdogchristian rock, punk rock | 135 | -1 |
29 | Pete Mittlerpunk rock | 112 | +3 |
30 | Dan Vapid and The Cheatspunk rock | 110 | -1 |
31 | Ballydowsepunk rock | 101 | 0 |
32 | John Kamyspunk rock | 91 | -2 |
33 | Oblivionpunk rock | 79 | 0 |
34 | Debris Inc.doom metal, punk rock | 48 | 0 |
35 | The Adjusterspunk rock | 40 | +1 |
36 | The Importspunk rock | 38 | -1 |
37 | Al-Thawrapunk rock | 29 | NEW |
How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in August 2026; movement compares that against July 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.