Mission of Burma. One of the only good American post punk bands (England rules this genre)
Gang of Four is the standard I measure most post punk bands by. "Entertainment" is the album to start with.
Track down stuff by "The Fuses" they were a Baltimore band in the 90's and they fucking KILLED. One of my all time favourite bands.
The Uniform is another awesome Baltimore band, but good luck with that one.
The Slugfuckers (Australia?) are alright too. Everything I've heard (not much) sounds like it was recorded in Satan's asshole.
New/Active bands:
The Futureheads are good. Especially the first album.
Maximo Park has some post punk elements to it, but they're mostly power pop.
Check out Wire, kind of inaccessible because they're a bunch of weirdos.
If you remind me tomorrow afternoon I'll dig through my records and see what I'm forgetting. If I can help you, uh, find any of this stuff let me know.
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Tubeway Army
The Plan, Tubeway Army, and Replicas are all great records. Actually the entire Gary Numan "Asylum" collection is really worth picking up.
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