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  Boogie-woogie

  Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. Whilst the blues traditionally depicts a...

• Horror punk

  Horror punk or Zombie Punk is a music genre that was defined by the band Misfits, blending horror movie lyrical themes and imagery with musical influences from early punk rock, doo-wop, and, to a lesser degree, rockabilly. Horror punk bands usually tell tales through their lyrics, which are often...

• Trash rock

  Trash rock is a genre of rock'n'roll that shares the same influences as early punk, but diverges in that it's largely apolitical, often containing 1930s-70s pulp fiction novel and B-movie themes and imagery. Its earliest origins are in the rockabilly, surf music and garage rock of the 1950s-60s,...

• Gothabilly

  Gothabilly is one of several music and cultural subgenres of rockabilly. The name is a portmanteau word that combines gothic and rockabilly. The earliest known use of the word gothabilly was by The Cramps in the late 1970s, to describe their blend of somber, rockabilly-influenced punk rock. Since...

• 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,...

• Punk blues

  Punk blues (or blues punk) denotes a rock music fusion of punk rock and blues rock. Punk blues musicians and bands may incorporate elements of related subgenres, such as protopunk music or blues-rock. Punk blues predominantly tends to be an American underground music style in terms of music genres,...

• Surf rock

  Surf rock, also known as "Surf Guitar" is a style of music that originated in the USA that mixes elements of surf music and rock music, and partially due to the number of Mexican immigrants in southern California, added elements of Spanish rooted melodies, as well as popular titles like "Mexico", ...