punky
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With Wood now fully integrated into the group , punky, guitar-centric rockers like “Respectable,” “When the Whip Comes Down” and “Shattered” snarl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
On the opening song, “Luz de Luna,” he gushes about not wanting to miss someone over a heartfelt piano ballad that slips between punky guitar rifts and unpredictable 808 drums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Sum 41's music has "energy and an attitude to it in a happy, punky way," Sol, who performs alongside Luke Hare and Harry Gray, adds.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
A friendly troll with a punky mohawk and red-capped mushrooms growing from its back moves the brothers up a mountain by cradling them in its supersize hands.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
There’s a group at Columbia that meets Sunday afternoons to jam on this punky fake jazz everyone’s into.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Here’s McVie, as a songwriter, doing her best Lindsey Buckingham, rising to her bandmate’s challenge of bringing a punkier edge to the band’s sprawling 1979 double album “Tusk.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
During the cruise, he sat in with multiple acts, from Cantrell to the punkier Waco Brothers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
They preferred the punkier numbers, like “Even the Losers” and “Refugee,” to the Byrds-ier T.P.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2015
On the former, there's Nancy Whang, punkier and less polished than Ware, acting all cool and untouchable – as is her forte – before unexpectedly and gloriously blossoming into a loved-up chorus.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2013
A punkier version of a song I’d heard before started to play over the coffee shop’s speakers.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
A charming mini-dress from 2000 by Miguel Adrover, known for redesigning salvaged garments, may be the punkiest postpunk garment in the whole show.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2013
"I can believe that," says I. For an auto it was the punkiest ever.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell
For a gallery play, it was the punkiest I ever put up.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
Say, wasn't that the punkiest stunt that fellow in black was doin' on the platform?
From Polly of the Circus by Mayo, Margaret
