Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement. A retrospective label, the musicians involved...

This is a list of notable proto-punk artists and bands. Brackett, David (2000). Interpreting Popular Music. University of California Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780520225411...

wrote that David "pushed the group in a hard-rock direction that presaged punk, and while this certainly didn't help them find a following in the mid-70s...

and devotees during the 1980s. The style has also been referred to as "proto-punk", or, in certain instances, "frat rock". In the early to mid-1980s, several...

scene as "a prime example of the opaque proto-punk undertow at the heart of the best psychedelia". Hippie proto-punk David Peel of New York City's Lower East...

Glam punk is a music genre that began in the early to mid-1970s and incorporates elements of proto-punk and glam rock. The genre was pioneered by the New...

was also inspired by Washington, D.C., and New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the established music...

conditions faced by working-class people in the 1950s and 1960s. Many proto-punk bands, including the Velvet Underground and T. Rex were influenced by...

Ramone, and Chris Stein were doo-wop fans, as were many other Jewish punks and proto-punks. Reed recorded his first lead vocals in 1962 on two doo-wop songs...

was an American musician best known as the lead singer for the Detroit proto-punk band MC5. His adopted surname was in tribute to the jazz pianist McCoy...