Trash rock

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Trash rock
Stylistic origins:	Blues, early R&B, Rockabilly, surf music, Garage rock, Punk rock, New wave, Indie rock, Country and western, Tex-Mex, Swamp rock, 1960s Girl groups
Cultural origins:	mid 1970s, United States, United Kingdom
Typical instruments:	Guitar - Bass - Drums
Mainstream popularity:	Largely underground, with some acts gaining a cult following. Popular with indie kids, bikers, punks, goths, greasers/rockabillies and hipsters.
Regional scenes
England - Scotland - Wales - Ireland - New Zealand-Europe- The USA- Japan
Other topics
Timeline of alternative rock - hot rods - Kustom Kulture - B-movies - pulp fiction novels - exploitation films- Pin up models- Burlesque - indie rock

Trash rock is a genre of rock'n'roll that shares the same influences as early punk, but diverges in that it's largely apolitical, often containing 1930's-70's pulp fiction novel and B-movie themes and imagery. It's earliest origins are in the rockabilly, surf music and garage rock of the 1950's-60's, when rock'n'roll was considered disposable trash on a par with exploitation B-movies and pulp fiction novels by its critics and opponents. By the 1970's, bands like The Lyres reclaimed the name as their own along with other bands of this era like The Cramps, The Ramones, The Milkshakes and Southern Culture on The Skids, who were deliberately trashy in their image and subject matter (though this was often ironic). It can be argued that "trash rock" is a catch-all term for contemporary surf music, garage rock, garage punk, psychobilly, punk blues, death rock and related genres.

Punk was considered the avant-garde goes trash, or vice versa. Trash rock also shares its DIY ethic and worldwide popularity with punk, with small independent labels with bands and even fans creating a DIY glamour aesthetic that draws of the films of Russ Meyer and John Waters.