Argentine punk

Argentine punk is punk rock from Argentina.

1976 is the year in which punk music started to emerge in the United Kingdom with bands like the Sex Pistols and The Clash. That same year a military dictatorship known as National Reorganization Process began in Argentina. The repressive policy of the military government against the dissidents was to kidnap them (the disappeared and became desaparecidos), torture, and murder them in illegal concentration camps.

Considering the political background and the obvious censorship, the anarchic and revolutionary ideas of punk rock where prohibited and so from the first years of the Argentine punk rock are poorly documented, mainly because it took place in an extremely underground scene. Because of this adverse context, the birth of punk rock in Argentina has an heroic and almost mythical status. In 1982 Argentina lost the Falklands war to the United Kingdom. This did not help the popularity of UK-inspired punk even after the censorship was over.

The first Argentine punk bands were:

When the military government ended in 1983 and Raúl Alfonsín's democratic government (1983–1989) started, a new generation of punk bands was born in Argentina. An important album from those years was the compilation Invasión 88 released by Radio Tripoli Records in 1988; a year in which several punk bands started to become popular, and yet most of them were unable to release an album due to financial circumstances. Invasión 88 featured songs by earlier punk bands that had already split up, such as Los Laxantes and Los Baraja, and newer bands such as Attaque 77, Exeroica, Rigidez Kadaverica, Flema, División Autista and Conmoción Cerebral. For many of those bands, those are the only recordings left to this day. The album was criticised by some bands who refused to participate in the album (such as Cadaveres de Niños and Todos tus Muertos) because the compilation featured two songs by far right skinhead Oi! band Comando Suicida.

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