PROTO-PUNK · FORMED IN THE EARLY 1970s

Loud beforepunk had a name.

Raw, restless rock & roll from the seventies underground — best known for “My Times Coming,” the song that carried The Punks into HBO's hit show Vinyl.

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PROTO-PUNK.
PLAY IT LOUD.

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WHERE THE SONG TURNED UP

Loud enough that
history listened.

MY TIMES COMING

Heard on HBO's VinylThe band's signature song was featured in HBO's hit show Vinyl, introducing The Punks' sound to millions of new listeners.

CREEM MAGAZINE

Lester Bangs was listeningLegendary rock critic Lester Bangs noticed The Punks and wrote about them in Creem — an early verdict that the times were, in fact, coming.

PROTO-PUNK, 1970s

Ahead of the curveFormed in the early 1970s, The Punks played raw, urgent rock & roll that helped define the sound punk would later make famous.

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THE SPARK BEFORE THE BLAZE.

Fast, loud,
years too early.

The Punks were playing it fast, loud, and a couple of years early. Somewhere in the early seventies they cut “My Times Coming” — a song that refused to stay in the past, eventually pulling the band into HBO's hit show Vinyl. Long before that, critic Lester Bangs caught them in Creem magazine and wrote about what he heard. Proto-punk, in other words: the spark before the blaze.

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