Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted ingarage rock andother forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands created fast, hard-edgedmusic, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bandsself-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels.
By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and TheClash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became amajor cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. Anassociated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment and a varietyof anti-authoritarian ideologies.
By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock.Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rockmovement. Bythe turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day and The Offspringbrought the genre widespread popularity.