The Ramones‘ 1976 debut album laid down the musical “blueprint for punk,” while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day, The Offspring and Blink-182 brought the genre widespread popularity. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rock movement. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies.īy the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock.
For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. By late 1976, bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned in London and Television and the Ramones in New York City were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. 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. Punk embraces a DIY ethic many bands self-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels. Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.
Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 19 in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia.