punky
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Lisbon, a punky explosion of noise from their debut album, gets a rare outing.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
We were rough around the edges, punky, and I liked that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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
I got excited because there were some punky eighties-looking bands.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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
The Monkeys opened with “Four Out of Five,” a new song that owes more to David Bowie than Turner’s punkier early inspirations, foremost of whom is spoken-word performer John Cooper Clarke.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2018
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
For a gallery play, it was the punkiest I ever put up.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
"I can believe that," says I. For an auto it was the punkiest ever.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
Say, wasn't that the punkiest stunt that fellow in black was doin' on the platform?
From Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo
