Punk Revival '77-style
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Punk Revival '77-style is later music that deliberately returns to the first-wave punk template: two-to-three-minute songs, bright downstroke guitars, sneering vocals, handclaps, leather-jacket hooks and a sense of cheap-record immediacy. It is less hardcore and more rock-and-roll than much modern punk, often drawing from Ramones, Buzzcocks, The Boys, The Clash and New York Dolls. The best examples sound affectionate but not museum-like, using old punk grammar for new impatience.
History
The style surfaced repeatedly after punk's first wave, from street-punk and garage-punk scenes to late-1990s and early-2000s bands who revived skinny-tie hooks, glam-trash attitude and snotty minimalism. The Briefs, The Exploding Hearts, The Stitches, The D4, The Hives, Guitar Wolf and The Donnas each carried parts of the '77 vocabulary into later scenes. It remains useful because the original punk format is durable: small gear, fast songs, strong image and immediate choruses.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- AllMusic garage punk and punk revival overviews
- Dirtnap Records catalog notes
- The Exploding Hearts reissue notes
- early-2000s garage-punk histories