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
Lisbon, a punky explosion of noise from their debut album, gets a rare outing.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Angular, punky, buncha noise stuff,” affirms Menashe, who also played with acclaimed Bloomington-to-L.A. band Triptides starting in 2010.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
And the untamed, punky energy of People was the only number where the band were really allowed to cut loose.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
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
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During the cruise, he sat in with multiple acts, from Cantrell to the punkier Waco Brothers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
It’s their first attempt at reggae, played punkier, with a new, Jones-penned intro.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
They’re underlined by music that expands on all of her guitar-band idioms: growing punkier, more psychedelic, dronier and noisier as the songs demand.
From New York Times ● May 16, 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
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
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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