Punk Rock & Subculture 1977–2026
A comprehensive knowledge base covering punk rock and adjacent underground movements from 1977 through 2026. All scenes with relevant contributions and staying power.
Last updated: 2026-04-07 | Total pages: 102
Genres
The musical taxonomy — sounds, movements, and aesthetics.
- [[hardcore]] — The trunk: faster, heavier, more aggressive than punk
- [[pop-punk]] — Melodic punk’s mainstream triumph, from Buzzcocks to Warped Tour
- [[emo]] — From D.C. emotional hardcore to midwest emo to screamo to MCR
- [[post-hardcore]] — Hardcore’s energy with complexity, from Fugazi to Refused
- [[crust-punk]] — Anarcho-punk meets metal, d-beat, apocalyptic heaviness
- [[anarcho-punk]] — Anti-state, anti-capitalist punk from Crass to Aus-Rotten
- [[ska-punk]] — Third wave, Operation Ivy through Streetlight Manifesto
- [[folk-punk]] — Acoustic Against Me!, Plan-It-X, house shows
- [[grindcore]] — Napalm Death, blast beats, sub-minute songs, extreme
- [[powerviolence]] — Man Is the Bastard, Spazz, tempo-chaos
- [[noise-rock]] — Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Big Black, dissonance as punk
- [[straight-edge]] — Minor Threat’s legacy, youth crew, hardline, posi-core
- [[street-punk]] — Working-class Oi!, Casualties, Dropkick Murphys
- [[queercore]] — Pansy Division, Team Dresch, queer punk movement
- [[riot-grrrl]] — Feminist punk movement, zines, “girls to the front”
- [[horror-punk]] — Misfits legacy, skull makeup, macabre punk
- [[melodic-hardcore]] — Hardcore with melody and songwriting
- [[digital-hardcore]] — Atari Teenage Riot, Berlin meets breakbeats
- [[uk-punk]] — The British explosion, 1976-1980, class war as music
- [[oi]] — Working-class UK anthemic gang vocals
- [[diy]] — The foundational ethos: make your own records, play your own shows
- [[basement-shows]] — The most fundamental unit of DIY punk infrastructure
- [[warped-tour]] — 1995-2018 traveling punk festival
Scenes
Geographic communities — the places where it happened.
- [[nyhc]] — New York Hardcore, CBGB, Agnostic Front through youth crew
- [[san-diego-scene]] — Gravity Records, Drive Like Jehu, The Locust
- [[new-brunswick-scene]] — Basement shows, Rutgers, Lifetime, Thursday
- [[denton-scene]] — Marked Men, Brutal Juice, college-town isolation
Bands
53 acts across five decades.
First Wave (1977–1985)
[[ramones]] · [[sex-pistols]] · [[the-clash]] · [[black-flag]] · [[bad-brains]] · [[dead-kennedys]] · [[minor-threat]]
California
[[green-day]] · [[descendents]] · [[all]] · [[rancid]] · [[afi]] · [[nofx]] · [[lagwagon]] · [[pennywise]] · [[snfu]]
D.C. and East Coast
[[fugazi]] · [[dag-nasty]] · [[gorilla-biscuits]] · [[judge]] · [[agnostic-front]] · [[sick-of-it-all]] · [[madball]] · [[h2o]] · [[have-heart]] · [[bouncing-souls]] · [[lifetime]]
Midwest and South
[[hot-water-music]] · [[against-me]] · [[propagandhi]] · [[the-marked-men]] · [[brutal-juice]] · [[doughboys]]
Pacific Northwest
[[sleater-kinney]] · [[bikini-kill]] · [[melvins]] · [[neurosis]]
Heavy and Experimental
[[tragedy]] · [[his-hero-is-gone]] · [[refused]] · [[at-the-drive-in]] · [[the-mars-volta]] · [[the-jesus-lizard]] · [[drive-like-jehu]] · [[rocket-from-the-crypt]] · [[pitchfork-band]]
Pop-Punk and Emo
[[blink-182]] · [[the-offspring]] · [[bad-religion]] · [[sunny-day-real-estate]]
UK
[[leatherface]]
People
[[steve-albini]]
Labels
15 imprints that built the infrastructure.
[[dischord-records]] · [[sst-records]] · [[revelation-records]] · [[bridge-nine-records]] · [[touch-and-go-records]] · [[fat-wreck-chords]] · [[lookout-records]] · [[plan-it-x-records]] · [[mutant-pop]] · [[gravity-records]] · [[alternative-tentacles]] · [[crank-records]] · [[red-scare-records]] · [[dead-broke-rekerds]] · [[numero-group]]
Venues
Where it happened.
[[924-gilman-street]] · [[cbgb]] · [[the-fest]]
Media
The publications that documented it.
[[maximum-rocknroll]] · [[pitchfork]] · [[brooklynvegan]]