Punk Rock
Punk rock, or punk?, is a rock subgenre and musical movement representing a "back-to-basics" approach derived from the rock & roll–garage rock lineage, combined with confrontational, often nihilistic aggression. In its purest and most classical form, punk rock is simple, three- or four-chord, fast and propulsive downstroke small-band rock performed sloppily, with shouted vocals and short song structures.
The earliest style dubbed "punk rock" was garage punk?, the heavier and more raucous side of 1960s garage rock which emphasizes fuzzbox-distorted riffs, bleeding into early garage psych? as "acid punk?", the style most closely associated with the 1972? Nuggets compilation album which includes one of the earliest uses of the "punk rock" term in its liner notes. This first iteration of garage punk makes up the bulk of what is considered "proto-punk?", a term which cropped up in music journalism to refer to '60s and early 1970s? artists and releases that in some way presage punk's aggressive spirit. Accordingly, punk rock has sometimes been seen as a sea change which radically reinterprets or "reboots" rock music anew, thus necessitating the mythologisation of its leadup.