Is punk music dead?

My daughter, who lives in Seattle, tells me that punk music is alive and well in her state.

By the way, what is punk music? need an example, please.

I’m a child of the 70’s and hated punk music back then, so it was never alive to me.

@john65pennington Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY (do it yourself) ethic, with many bands self-producing their recordings and distributing them through informal channels.
By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies.

As long as Ben Weasel is still kickin’, there’s no threat of punk dying.

No, punk is still alive and well, but it has started down a road of transformation like most music throughout the years.

For example:
Rap music- 1989. 1999, and 2010. Pretty big difference throughout the years.

With music, you have to be willing to change to keep people’s attention. Although The Ramones are a great band, if their music was just coming out today, I’d imagine it’d be tough to pass off as the legendary music that it is.

Punk music is all about “going against the grain”. It’s about antiestablishment and fuck anyone or anything that tries to tell you how to be or how to look or what to say. I think as long as people are around and have a centralized government with rules, there will always be punks and punk music.

Here’s a few active punk bands of today by my standards.
Alkaline Trio
Anti-flag <~By the definition of punk, one of the BEST punk bands ever!
The Distillers <~Yeah, they split in 2006 but they’re my favorite punk band. Most members are still active and a few of them in…
Spinnerette
Goldfinger
Flogging Molly
Dropkick Murphys
Leftöver Crack
The Beatsteaks
NOFX
Mindless Self Indulgence <~Electro-punk, lol.
Streetlight Manifesto
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
No Use For A Name
Big D And The Kids Table
The Misfits <~Yup, still an active band.
Rancid <~Another obvious one.
Transplants <~They’ve been off and on throughout the years but they are currently active.
Against Me!
Rise Against

Pretty much any alternative rock and even some hardcore have some lineage that traces back to pure punk. Punk is still alive and well. It’s just rarely in it’s “pure” form anymore.

@Randy – Will you marry me? Oh, wait. You have to include The Riverdales and Screeching Weasel as well as all their other incarnations if we’re gonna get married.
Dirty Chicago punk is what really does it for me :)
Oh, here. It’s Jesse Michaels. Operation Ivy/Common Rider. He’ll melt your face off with this EP.

God, let’s hope so!

If it’s not dead, I hope it at least stays somewhere underground so I won’t have to ever listen to it again and be driven to headaches. I was a teenager during the seventies and it was always considered to be somewhat of a joke.

@Seelix If you two get married, I’d like to join too.

@rangerr – I’d be down with that. I’m not against polyamory if it’s for the good of punk rock.

@Seelix I have an Op Ivy dress that I’d like to wear to the wedding.

@Seelix & @rangerr You guys are awesome!

Punk is still around, just not as alive as it used to be. Atleast Suicidal, the Misfits and D.R.I. are still kickin’.

This is punk! KEEPIN’ IT ALIVE!!!

@Randy – Okay, that made me giggle.

I also wanted to mention that I hung out with Anti-Flag back in the day before they got famous. My boyfriend at the time was big into putting on all-ages shows and Anti-Flag was one of the bands that he got to come. They ended up staying at his house. Nice guys.