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{{short description|Music genre}}{{Proposed deletion/dated|concern=The term "avant-punk" lacks significant coverage in reliable sources. The article is poorly sourced and the term appears to be original research or not notable.|timestamp=20250630181631|nom=Aradicus77|help=}}{{infobox music genre
| name              = Avant-punk
| other_names       = Experimental punk
| stylistic_origins = *[[Punk rock]]
*[[avant-garde music|avant-garde]]
*[[proto-punk]]
| cultural_origins  = 1960s, [[New York City]], U.S.
| other_topics      = * [[Art punk]]
* [[avant-rock]]
* [[avant-pop]]
* [[no wave]]
* [[noise rock]]
* [[post-hardcore]]
* [[post-punk]]
}}

'''Avant-punk''' is a [[punk music]] style characterized by "screeching experimentation", and a term by which critics used to describe the wave of American [[punk band]]s from the 1970s.<ref name="Smith2009">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Chris|title=101 Albums that Changed Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4mP7u6mPdkC&pg=PA146|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-537371-4|page=146}}</ref> It originated with the [[New York City|New York]]–based rock band [[the Velvet Underground]], while antecedents included early [[the Kinks|Kinks]] and garage band one-shots collected on the ''[[Nuggets (series)|Nuggets]]'' series of compilation albums.<ref name="christ">{{cite news|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|title=Avant-Punk: A Cult Explodes . . . and a Movement Is Born|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/avantpunk-77.php|work=[[Village Voice]]|date=October 24, 1977}}</ref> According to critic [[Robert Christgau]], between 1966 and 1975, the only notable acts who could be categorized as "avant-punk" were [[The Velvet Underground|the Velvets]], [[The Fugs]], [[MC5]], [[Iggy Pop]] and [[the Stooges]], [[the Modern Lovers]], and the [[New York Dolls]].<ref name="christ" />

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