Enter the next decade, and you find Green Day reigniting mainstream punk and Bikini Kill pioneering riot grrrl.ĭropkick Murphys play a unique brand of punk music influenced by their Irish-by-way-of-New England upbringing: Celtic Punk.

Hit the ‘80s, and you run into the hardcore styles of Minor Threat and the ska resurgence of Operation Ivy. Jump forward to the late ’70s, and you get the pop playground of Buzzcocks.

We can look back a few years and find its genesis in the avant sounds of The Stooges in the late ’60s. There was the cheeky, intelligent weirdness of Ramones in the US, and the snarling, aggressive spitfire of the Sex Pistols in the UK - and that was punk rock.Īt least, that’s been pinpointed as the dawn of what we’ve come to understand as punk. The general consensus is that punk music had its transatlantic origins in the mid-’70s, simultaneously birthed out of a junky New York City club under a flophouse at 315 Bowery and an underground London fashion boutique at 430 King’s Road. Keep checking back throughout the week for interviews, lists, editorials and videos - it’s all things punk, all the time. Consequence’s Punk Week continues with a staff list of the genre’s Top 30 bands.

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