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Old 02-19-2008, 12:23 PM   #9 (permalink)
teshadoh
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Mike Watt has his own opinion of punk - it ended in the mid to late 1980's. Personally I can't say I completely agree with him, but he does have a point. Consider psychedelic music, it clearly had it's time & place in the late 1960's, but since then numerous bands have reinvented the genre, particularly in the 1980's.

The point being - punk music was clearly a current music genre in the 1970's through 1980's. Once punk music wained it no longer became an active genre - see 'post-punk' following 1970's UK punk or 'hardcore' following early 1980's US hardcore punk. So I don't know what any punk since 1990 really is - certainly Fugazi is punk, but what about any band that started from scratch since then?
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