Avant-punk
{{short description|Music genre}}
{{infobox music genre
| name = Avant-punk
| other_names = Experimental punk
| stylistic_origins = *Punk rock
| cultural_origins = 1960s, New York City, U.S.
| other_topics = * Art punk
}}
Avant-punk is a punk music style characterized by "screeching experimentation", and a term by which critics used to describe the wave of American punk bands from the 1970s.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Chris|title=101 Albums that Changed Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4mP7u6mPdkC&pg=PA146|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-537371-4|page=146}} It originated with the New York–based rock band the Velvet Underground, while antecedents included early Kinks and garage band one-shots collected on the Nuggets series of compilation albums.{{cite news|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|title=Avant-Punk: A Cult Explodes . . . and a Movement Is Born|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/avantpunk-77.php|work=Village Voice|date=October 24, 1977}} According to critic Robert Christgau, between 1966 and 1975, the only notable acts who could be categorized as "avant-punk" were the Velvets, The Fugs, MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, and the New York Dolls.
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