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Genre in a city

Punk artists from Chicago

The 14 most-read punk artists based in Chicago, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

14 artists are tagged punk in Chicago. The biggest move was The Bollweevils, up 2 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Racetraitorhardcore punk, metal	4,004	0
02	Knuckle Puckemo, punk	2,145	0
03	Twin Peaksgarage rock, americana	1,901	0
04	Pegboypunk, punk rock	840	0
05	The Flying Luttenbachersrock, jazz	676	0
06	Tub Ringexperimental, punk	412	0
07	The Falconpunk	391	0
08	The Bollweevilspunk	269	+2
09	Much the Samemelodic hardcore, punk	238	0
10	Breaking Circusalternative rock, post-punk	161	+2
11	Retirement Partyemo, indie rock	158	0
12	Neil Hennessypunk, rock	149	-4
13	The Fighterspunk	105	+1
14	Evil Beaverpunk	49	-1

Adjacent scenes

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.