[Today: The hidden roots of Punk...] The term ‘punk’ originated in the 1950′s as a colorful put-down of the sneering, leather-jacketed hoodlums of the day. It wouldn’t be used to describe the rough-hewn musical genre until Creem magazine hotshots Lester Bangs and Dave Marsh starting using it that way around 1970. Nobody will ever confuse [...]![]()
