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Punk artists from Los Angeles

The 30 most-read punk artists based in Los Angeles, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

30 artists are tagged punk in Los Angeles. The biggest move was Teenage Time Killers, up 6 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	The Linda Lindasriot grrrl, power pop	28,438	+2
02	Jennifer Finchpunk, rock	27,379	-1
03	L7grunge, punk	22,350	-1
04	Germspunk rock, hardcore punk	16,186	0
05	Transplantspunk rock, rap rock	15,800	+2
06	The Distillerspunk rock, punk	9,145	-1
07	Brett Gurewitzpunk, rock	6,375	-1
08	The Dickiespunk, punk rock	5,250	0
09	OFF!hardcore punk, punk	2,485	+1
10	Rick Frobergpunk, rock	2,268	-1
11	Neurotic Outsidershard rock, punk	2,177	+1
12	Bad Cop/Bad Coppunk rock, punk	1,844	+2
13	Spanish Love Songsemo, pop punk	1,782	-2
14	Spotpunk	1,369	-1
15	Luicidalpunk	912	+4
16	Teenage Time Killersheavy metal, hard rock	840	+6
17	Down by Lawpunk	806	0
18	Daredevilspunk	722	-2
19	Bleachedindie rock, lo-fi	720	-4
20	The Briggspunk, punk rock	604	-2
21	Final Conflicthardcore punk, pigfuck	528	-1
22	Jughead’s Revengepunk, punk rock	477	-1
23	Chemical Peoplepunk	310	+3
24	Audio Karateemo, punk	292	0
25	Legal Weaponhardcore punk, punk	272	-2
26	Dangershardcore punk, punk	223	-1
27	Hate Dept.industrial, punk	204	0
28	Mojackjazz, punk	110	0
29	Longstockingpunk, queercore	61	+1
30	The Deep Eyndegothic rock, punk	48	-1

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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.