Punk rock

Punk Rock is a form of music played by punk rockers. The music is typically simple musically and was made popular by bands such as the the commercial bands the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols, in fact, wrote a song called "Anarchy in the UK" which helped popularise anarchy for many young music listeners from the late to middle 1970's and beyond. The music was largely an expression of unemployed youth in English speaking countries but spread to French countries as well. The music was typically more nihilistic than anarchistic. Many anarchist youth movement groups and poor musician clubs kept the movement side of this music alive in the 1980's. The music has been thouroughly exploited by main stream media. The Clash were another band that were commercial but were considered by some to much more political and a true left wing music group.

The Insurrection were a band that formed in response to this music style in Ottawa Canada.