Punk rock
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 Punk rock facts

• Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock
• Punk bands typically use short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics
• Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels
• The term "punk" was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees
• By late 1976, bands such as Television and the Ramones in New York City, and the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned 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 a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom
• For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream
• An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment (ranging from deliberately offensive T-shirts, leather jackets, spike bands and other st� or spiked jewelry to bondage and S&M clothes) and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies
• By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore (e
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