If its angry young men and women you're after, you've come to the right place. With roots in the 60s garage scene, the New York Underground and Cleveland's art-rock movement, punk flowered as a reaction to the excesses of mainstream 1970s rock and has delivered highly melodic blasts of vitriol and spite ever since. Often politically motivated, punk has spawned a number of related genres, including the initial growth of hardcore in Washington DC and Los Angeles, the huge commercial success of Orange County punk in the 90s, and the current popularity of Emo (emotional hardcore).
