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  Hardcore punk

  Hardcore punk, often just called hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated primarily in North America (though, early examples could be found throughout the world) in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. Early hardcore has a...

• All-women band

  All female bands (commonly known as all women bands, all girl bands, or girl bands) are musical groups in which females sing and play all the instruments. A distinction is made here with girl groups, in which females are primarily vocalists, though this terminology is not universally followed. In...

• Youth crew

  Youth crew is a music subgenre of hardcore punk that was pioneered by Youth of Today in the early to mid-1980s, and thrived in the New York hardcore scene of 1988. Youth crew is distinguished from other hardcore and punk scenes by its optimistic, fraternal and more moralistic outlook. The original...

• Garage punk

  Garage punk is a rock music fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced, lo-fi music characterised by angular, choppy guitar sounds — usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned. Common lyrical themes range from cars, girls, school, toilet humor, sex,...

• Thrashcore

  Thrashcore (also known as fastcore) is a fast tempo subgenre of hardcore punk that emerged in the early 1980s. Thrashcore is essentially sped-up hardcore punk, with bands often using blast beats. Songs can be very brief, and thrashcore is in many ways a less dissonant, less metallic forerunner of...

• Indie rock

  Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The term is often used to describe the means of production and distribution of independent underground music, as well as the style of music that was first associated with this means of...

• Power violence

  Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence), is a raw and dissonant subgenre of hardcore punk. The style is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. The term was first mentioned in the song "Hispanic Small Man Power (H.S.M.P.)" by genre pioneer Man Is the Bastard. Its nascent form was...

• Queercore

  Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk. Queercore expresses itself in DIY style through zines, music, writing, art and film. As a musical genre, it may be distinguished by lyrics exploring themes of prejudice and dealing with issues such as...