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punk

noun as in hoodlum

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Its inaugural performance was a play based on English punk musician Sid Vicious, starring a then-unknown actor named George Clooney.

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“A lot of Iranian artists wouldn’t like this comparison, but this music was really punk at its core,” Asdourian agreed.

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The album “star,” 2hollis’ best version of his signature crystalline hardstyle EDM, meets grimy rage trap, meets velvet emo pop punk, emerged directly and impactfully from the remains of the roaring flames.

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She got her start in music as a drummer in a local punk band called Ratón Pérez, which she joined at the age of 12.

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The album ends with her resolving to confront her struggles with self-acceptance, with the frankly written “I Want To Be Better” — which escalates with the feverish punk pulse of “Onwards.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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