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The punk subculture is centered on a loud, aggressive genre of rock music called punk rock, usually played by bands consisting of a vocalist, one or two electric guitarists, an electric bassist, and a drummer. In some bands, the musicians contribute backup vocals, which typically consist of shouted slogans, choruses, or football-style chants.
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Pop-punk (also known as punk-pop and other names) is a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music and/or power pop, to varying degrees. It is not clear when the term pop-punk was first used, but pop-influenced punk rock had been around since the mid- to late-1970s. [15]
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 1960s garage rock , punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.
Garage rock was the first form of music called "punk", [7] and indeed that style influenced much of punk rock. Punk rock was also a reaction against tendencies that had overtaken popular music in the 1970s, including what the punks saw as "bombastic" forms of heavy metal, progressive rock and "arena rock" as well as "superficial" disco music ...
Famous or not, The Hives helped make punk rock cool again. So cool, in fact, that Demi Moore sported a Sex Pistols T-shirt on a 2007 cover of Architectural Digest and David Beckham was spotted in ...
It is a paradoxical but nonetheless true statement to say that the retro-leaning L.A. rock band Redd Kross was far ahead of their time — not just musically (the power-pop resurgence of the early ...
Fugazi is a family name and a slang word which refers to something that is fake or damaged beyond repair. It may refer to: Fugazi, a post-hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C. Fugazi, the debut EP by the band of the same name; Fugazi, a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named "Fugazi"