thing is, it depends on who you are talking to and their cultural significance as to classify what punk, and emo are. rock? everyone knows what rock is, but is is a whole genre of music. but lets see how i go..... (btw, these are my interpretations of what punk emo and rock are.....)
Punk~- The Misfits
- The Sex Pistols
- Black Flag
- Anti-Flag
- The Matches
- Sum 41
- pennywise
- senses fail
- AFI
- Billy Talent
- Dropkick Murphys
- The Hot Lies (awesome Aussie band, relatively unknown, a little digging around the internet should show some mp3 downloads)
- The Living End
- Mest
- NOFX
- The Offspring
- Start Trouble
- +44
- Gold Finger
- Fall Out Boy (more toward FUCT and Take This To Your Grave)
- Turbonegro
(The infamous) Emo~- Dashboard Confessional
- Jimmy Eat World
- Escape The Fate
- From First to Last
- Hawthorn Heights
- The Starting Line
- Thursday
- Underoath
- The Academy is....
Rock~ (this one covers a whole lot more genres aswell, mainly artists I listen to)- Avenged Sevenfold
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Atreyu
- Trivium
- Metallica (check out Apocalyptica)
- Killswitch Engage
- Led Zeplin
- ACDC
- Van Halen
- Nirvana
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rage Against The Machine
- Living Colour
- White Zombie
- Disturbed
- I Killed The Prom Queen (another Aussie band {guess where im from???})
- Dragon Force
- In Flames
- Parkway Drive (Aussie)
- Static-X
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Your Name In Neon