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corporate record labels appropriating punk, watering it down, packing it into a bunch of posturing and marketing, then selling the disgusting package to the masses.

4. An Anarcho-Punk is an individual who is both an anarchist and a punk.

5. Andrew Jackson Jihad have recently changed their name to “AJJ” to avoid offending people, and started making music that is closer in genre to Indie Pop than to Folk-Punk. It is the feeling of many that they have “sold out” and abandoned the Punk values that garnered most of their fan base.

6. The fact the lyrics in People are a rip-off of a Depeche Mode are something that the band freely admits.

7. Now, I don’t want to make it sound like Folk-Punk is all lovey dovey and accepting of all. It merely focuses more on a revolution that is based on people uniting and rising up together than in anger.

8. Power Violence is a sub-genre of Hardcore Punk. It is more abrasive than Hardcore and Crust Punk, and typically takes the form of short (sometimes even under one minute) songs that fuse Metal and Punk together to create bursts of musical rage.