punk rock
noun
: rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expressions of alienation and social discontent
punk rocker
noun
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Comments What's more punk rock than getting banned by Elon Musk's X?
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Debbie Day, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
John Webb grew up in Atlanta, Georgia wanting to be either a professional soccer player or the lead singer in a punk rock band.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
Half-prank, half-pastiche and 100% punk rock, the film’s mishmash aesthetics are due to the many artists who volunteered to build out Drew’s gender-bending Gotham City by any means necessary, from animation to stop-motion to miniatures.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025
They were lost boys looking for fun in the urban wasteland, but almost accidentally inventing punk rock.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
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Debbie Day, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
John Webb grew up in Atlanta, Georgia wanting to be either a professional soccer player or the lead singer in a punk rock band.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
Half-prank, half-pastiche and 100% punk rock, the film’s mishmash aesthetics are due to the many artists who volunteered to build out Drew’s gender-bending Gotham City by any means necessary, from animation to stop-motion to miniatures.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025
They were lost boys looking for fun in the urban wasteland, but almost accidentally inventing punk rock.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Punk rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punk%20rock. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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