#Underground-Punk

ANARCHO PUNK (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. Beliefs and origins: A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the UK following the birth of the punk rock movement, in particular the situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, and that band's first single, Anarchy in the UK. However, while the early punk scene appropriated anarchist imagery mainly for its shock value, the band Crass expounded serious anarchist and pacifist ideas, and were to become a notable influence within various late-twentieth century protest movements. Many anarcho-punks are supporters of issues such as animal rights, feminism, the anti-war movement and are often pacifist (although some support organizations such as Class War) and tend to be in favor of direct action. While no doubt participants would dispute having any leadership, it is difficult to imagine anarcho-punk existing without the influence of Crass, although Crass founder Penny Rimbaud has stated that it is a label he dislikes. He feels that the anarcho-punks were actually representative of true punk, while the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned etc. were in fact nothing more than 'music business puppets'. The DIY punk ethic: Many anarcho-punk bands, especially at the local level of unsigned groups, have taken on what is known as a "DIY" ethic: that is, Doing It Yourself; indeed, a popular Anarcho-punk slogan reads "DIY not EMI", a reference to a conscious rejection of the major record company of that name. Many anarcho-punk bands were showcased on the Bullshit Detector series of LPs released by Crass Records and Resistance Productions Records between 1980 and 1994. There is an argument that despite promoting an anti-capitalist ideology, these were commodities sold in the market place and thus were inherently contradictory. It is however difficult to see how such groups could otherwise make their music and ideas available, although some anarcho-punk performers were also a part of the Cassette Culture scene. In this way an attempt was made to bypass the traditional recording and distribution routes, with material often being made available in exchange for "a blank tape plus self-addressed envelope". The anarcho-punk movement also had its own network of fanzines (sometimes called punk-zines) which disseminated news, ideas and artwork from the scene. Again, these were usually very much 'DIY' affairs, tending to be produced in runs of hundreds (at most) rather than thousands (although there were exceptions, such as Toxic Graffiti, printed on photocopiers or duplicator machines, and distributed by hand at punk gigs. Identity politics Anarcho-punk has been highlighted as one of the social phenomena which took anarchism in the direction of 'identity politics' (or 'lifestylism'). Some argue that style became an essential ingredient of the movement, sometimes obscuring other factors, although others would reply that the performers who aligned themselves with anarcho-punk in fact embraced a wide diversity of approaches in both format and ideas. This would appear to be borne out by the range of artists and performers listed on the anarcho-punk bands: Against Me, Amebix, Anthrax, Antischism, Antisect, The APF Brigade, The Apostles, Aus-Rotten, Axiom, Blyth Power, Chumbawamba, Citizen Fish, Conflict, Crass, Crucifix, DIRT, Disrupters, Existance, Flag of Dischord, Flux of Pink Indians, Generic, Hagar the Womb, Icons of Filth, Karma Sutra , Krondstadt Uprising, Kulturkampf, Liberty, Nausea, No Defences, The Mob, Oi Polloi, Omega Tribe, One By One, The Next World, Picture Frame Seduction, Pieklo Kobiet, Poison Girls, Politicide, R.A.T.S., Refused, Riot/Clone, Rubella Ballet, Rudimentary Peni, Sanction, Selkkaus, Senile, Submission Hold, The Ex, The Martyr Index,The Sinyx, The Sleeping Dogs, The Subhumans, Thatcher On Acid, This Bike is a Pipebomb, UP SyNDROME, Witch Hunt, Youth in Asia, Zounds. _____________________________________________ SKA PUNK is a fusion of Jamaican ska and British and American punk rock. The earliest combinations of the two sounds occurred in the late 1970s as punk's revolutionary lyrical content led to a natural affinity with similarly styled reggae and other Caribbean musical styles. The second wave of ska (2 tone) was primarily British, and was followed closely in the late 1980s and 1990s with American skacore (Third Wave), which achieved much mainstream commercial success. History Origins (first wave of ska) Ska was born in 1950s Jamaica, combining jazz and mento (a native folk music) with influences from American R&B and rock and roll. The music was fast-paced and highly danceable, and it was often politically revolutionary in its lyrical subjects. Ska fans dressed like Hollywood gangsters, in thin ties, pork pie hats and black suits and called themselves rude boys. In the 1960s, ska adapted slower beats, forming rocksteady (a precursor to reggae). Initial spread (second wave of ska) By the late 1970s, ska was popular in the United Kingdom, aided by Jerry Dammers' (of The Specials) record label, 2Tone Records. The Specials, The English Beat and Madness, among others sped up ska and added punk rock elements to form Two Tone. Some hold that Bob Marley's "Punky Reggae Party" (1977) began the fusion. Ska also gained popularity in the rest of Europe. Supplementing the lilting Jamaican rhythms of ska with punk rock's uncompromising lyrics and brutal guitar chords resulted in a hybrid that slaked a thirst for a moshing groove, plenty of melody via the horns, and thoughtful, irreverent, or politically charged lyrics. Popularization (third wave of ska) In the 1980s saw the blending of 1970s 2 tone ska-punk with 1980s punk, the result being what is known today as ska-core. Notable ska punk bands: Citizen Fish, Common Rider, Dance Hall Crashers, De Hardheid, Five Iron Frenzy, Less Than Jake, Mad Caddies, Mustard Plug, Operation Ivy, Planet Smashers, Reel Big Fish, The Suicide Machines, Streetlight Manifesto, Wack.A.Deli, Choking Victim, Against All Authority, Wagstaffe, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Skankin' Pickle, The Hippos. _____________________________________________ CRUST PUNK (also known as crustcore) is an extreme evolution of hardcore punk. The genre might be considered hard to listen to and very abrasive. Crust punk lyrics tend to be political. Along with a sound that is more abrasive than other hardcore punk bands, crust punk bands have political beliefs that are antithetical to much of the mainstream commercial music industry; such as veganism and anarchism. Other common lyrical themes include atheism, pro-choice, gender equality, environmentalism and animal rights. Many consider the genre to have started with the band Amebix, but elements of the crust punk sound existed previously, most notably in early anarcho-punk bands such as Crass, Conflict and Zounds. If it can be said that crust started with the Amebix then their direct precursors were Disorder, Chaos UK,the fathers of British black metal Venom and the Japanese Anarcho-horror metal punk band GISM. Crust punk is tied to the grindcore and noise/experimental scenes. Fans of crust punk are sometimes called "crusties". Crust punk bands: Abraham Cross, Amebix, Antiproduct, Antischism, Antisect, Antisystem, Argue Damnation, Atrocious Madness, Aus-Rotten, Axegrinder, Axiom, Battle of Disarm, Black Kronstadt, Blownapart Bastards, Crocodile Skink, Destroy, Detestation, The Detested, Detrimental Greed, Deviated Instinct, Discharge, Doom, Dropdead, Dystopia, Extinction of Mankind, Extreme Noise Terror, Gloom, Hellbastard, Hellkrusher, Hiatus, Human Greed, Initial Detonation, Initial State, Masskontroll, Misery, Nausea, Oi Polloi, Power of Idea, React, Resist, Sacrilege, Skitsystem, Warcollapse, Wretched (proto-crust), Witch Hunt. _____________________________________________ HORROR PUNK is a dark style of music mixing Gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid imagery. Often, song topics are taken from horror movies, but the best horror punk creates atmosphere by telling tales through the song. The Misfits are considered to be the first horror punk band. They were followed by bands like Samhain (now known as the Doom Metal band Danzig, headed by the former frontman of The Misfits), 45 Grave, and Mourning Noise. Horror punk continues as a thriving sub-genre with dedicated websites, festivals, and current bands such as Mister Monster, Eerie Ln., The Undead, Dead End Drive In, Blitzkid, The Cryptkeeper Five and Nim Vind. Horor punk bands: Mister Monster, Eerie Ln., The Undead, Dead End Drive In, Blitzkid, The Cryptkeeper Five and Nim Vind. _____________________________________________ OI PUNK - Oi! is also the name given to a sub-genre of punk music that sought to return punk to a working-class "street level" following. It began in the latter part of 1977, fusing the styles of early punk bands such as the Clash and the Ramones with early British rock like the Rolling Stones and The Who, and was seen as promoting unity between punks and skinheads. Originally, the style was called "streetpunk" or "reality-punk"; it wasn't until the early 1980s that music journalist Gary Bushell labeled the movement "Oi!", supposedly derived from the Cockney Rejects song "Oi! Oi! Oi!". The original Oi! bands included Cock Sparrer, the Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, Slaughter and the Dogs, Skrewdriver, The Lurkers, and Sham 69. They were followed by The Business, The Last Resort, The 4-Skins, Combat 84, Infa-Riot, and others. Because many skinheads were recruited by racist organizations such as the National Front, some histories of rock music dismiss all Oi! as racist. However, none of the original streetpunk bands were particularly racist. One possible exception is Skrewdriver. The band's early material is usually considered classic Oi!, but by the mid-1980s Skrewdriver was leading a small neo-Nazi rock scene, although apart from lead singer Ian Stuart Donaldson, the band had a different line up from that of the late 1970s. Their music was recognizably Oi!, but they sought to distance themselves from punk in general, preferring the term "R.A.C." ("Rock Against Communism" — a reaction to Rock Against Racism). Members of the earlier incarnation of Skrewdriver have stated that they do not wish to be associated with Donaldson's later version. Oi! also became associated with right wing politics following the events of July 4 1981 at the Hamborough Tavern in Southall, London, when a concert by the bands the Business, the Last Resort and the 4-Skins was followed by violent clashes between the predominantly white audience and the local Asian population. However it is worth recording that in the aftermath many Oi! bands were not slow to condemn racism in all its forms, as well as categorically denying any association with fascism. At about this time, the Oi! movement began to lose momentum in the U.K., but Oi! scenes were forming elsewhere in Europe, Japan, and North America. In the United States, the Oi! phenomenon was mirrored by the Hardcore explosion of the early 1980s, especially by bands such as Black Flag, Iron Cross,and S.S. Decontrol. Although similar in spirit and influence to Oi! (particularly in the earlier stages), Hardcore expounded itself in a peculiarly American middle class (rather than working class) fashion as its influences spread. In the mid-1990s, a revival of interest in Oi! music began, with new bands emerging and older bands receiving more recognition. With this revival came a further concerted effort to distance Oi! from racism. Recent Oi! bands include The Templars, The Wretched Ones, Those Unknown, The Lager Lads, The Unseen, Oxymoron and Hard Skin. _____________________________________________ STREET PUNK is both a subgenre of punk rock and a word that describes people, mostly young, who live on the streets. In the latter case, while those people may not identify as "punk," people described as "street punks" usually have a punkish appearance, including studded leather jackets, torn jeans, plaid bondage pants, bullet belts, mohawk hairstyles and dyed hair, piercings, et cetera. Others into street punk don't have any particular punkish appearance and can be described as Casuals. The word "punk," in this usage, may have a derogatory intent. Streetpunk is also seen as a reaction against early middle class art school type of punks like Generation X and mainstream cashing in on punk rock. It is a will to bring back punk where it belongs: the dirty streets of suburbia. The street punk music genre started with the Oi! music scene in the late 70s and early 80s. But on early streetpunk acts one can still feel the influence of late 70s British pub rock and cockney glam noize. This form of music was developed by bands such as Cock Sparrer, Slaughter and The Dogs, The Business, 4-Skins, Gonads, Blitz, Ejected and The Cockney Rejects. It started as a youth music style with songs about tales of the street, police violence, easy girls and teenage drunk mayhem. Today - condemned on the eyes of the media as a gang of street thugs - the street punk movement is stronger than ever and as become a global youth cult. Streetpunk bands of the mid 80s include The Skeptix, Abrasive Wheels, Infa-Riot, Vicious Rumours, Cobra, Decibelios, Komintern Sect and Attak. Today street punk bands can be found all over the world. Street punks are typically dressed in the height of punk fashion: Often including studded and painted leather jackets, tight black or bondage pants with band patches sewn all over them, dyed liberty spikes or mohawks and torn or otherwise modified band t-shirts. Today's street punk is dominated by Dropkick Murphys, the Casualties, Social Combat, Garotos Podres, The Gang Bang Cowboys, Beerzone, Deadline, Anti-Heros, Bonecrusher, Career Soldiers, The Unseen, Oxymoron,Punk As Fuck and The Squatter Sluts, Mata-Ratos, Resilience, The Virus Charge 69, etc. These bands play with faster beats, screaming or raspy vocals, almost always distorted guitars, short 10-30 second guitar solos (if any), and faster, more technical bass lines. Their lyrics often talk about having fun at shows, fights, friendship, police opression, the generation gap, social problems, either a negative or positive attitude towards the general punk scene, and in some cases, glorify having spikey hair (for example "Spikey Haired Drunk Punx" by The Casualties)or getting beaten by your mother in law (for example "A Minha Sogra é Um Boi" by Mata-Ratos). Some bands, Boston's The Unseen for example, decide to break from the norm and discuss how they feel the scene is full of conformists. The modern conformity of punk led lead singer of The Unseen, Paul Russo, to lose interest in the direction the band was going and eventually abandon it for a more artistic project called Paul and The Strings. Today's street punk is dominated by Dropkick Murphys, the Casualties, Social Combat, Garotos Podres, The Gang Bang Cowboys, Beerzone, Deadline, Anti-Heros, Bonecrusher, Career Soldiers, The Unseen, Oxymoron,Punk As Fuck and The Squatter Sluts, Mata-Ratos, Resilience, The Virus Charge 69.

CRUST PUNK (also known as crustcore) is an extreme evolution of hardcore punk. The genre might be considered hard to listen to and very abrasive. Crust punk lyrics tend to be political. Along with a sound that is more abrasive than other hardcore punk bands, crust punk bands have political beliefs that are antithetical to much of the mainstream commercial music industry; such as veganism and anarchism. Other common lyrical themes include atheism, pro-choice, gender equality, environmentalism and animal rights. Many consider the genre to have started with the band Amebix, but elements of the crust punk sound existed previously, most notably in early anarcho-punk bands such as Crass, Conflict and Zounds. If it can be said that crust started with the Amebix then their direct precursors were Disorder, Chaos UK,the fathers of British black metal Venom and the Japanese Anarcho-horror metal punk band GISM. Crust punk is tied to the grindcore and noise/experimental scenes. Fans of crust punk are sometimes called "crusties". Crust punk bands: Abraham Cross, Amebix, Antiproduct, Antischism, Antisect, Antisystem, Argue Damnation, Atrocious Madness, Aus-Rotten, Axegrinder, Axiom, Battle of Disarm, Black Kronstadt, Blownapart Bastards, Crocodile Skink, Destroy, Detestation, The Detested, Detrimental Greed, Deviated Instinct, Discharge, Doom, Dropdead, Dystopia, Extinction of Mankind, Extreme Noise Terror, Gloom, Hellbastard, Hellkrusher, Hiatus, Human Greed, Initial Detonation, Initial State, Masskontroll, Misery, Nausea, Oi Polloi, Power of Idea, React, Resist, Sacrilege, Skitsystem, Warcollapse, Wretched (proto-crust), Witch Hunt. _____________________________________________ HORROR PUNK is a dark style of music mixing Gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid imagery. Often, song topics are taken from horror movies, but the best horror punk creates atmosphere by telling tales through the song. The Misfits are considered to be the first horror punk band. They were followed by bands like Samhain (now known as the Doom Metal band Danzig, headed by the former frontman of The Misfits), 45 Grave, and Mourning Noise. Horror punk continues as a thriving sub-genre with dedicated websites, festivals, and current bands such as Mister Monster, Eerie Ln., The Undead, Dead End Drive In, Blitzkid, The Cryptkeeper Five and Nim Vind. Horor punk bands: Mister Monster, Eerie Ln., The Undead, Dead End Drive In, Blitzkid, The Cryptkeeper Five and Nim Vind.