prog

I was used to listening to Sabbath and the prog rock stuff, and at first I didn’t like the Ramones, the songs were fast, short, and noisy.”

She was passionate about a wide range of music, championing genres ranging from prog rock and punk to acid house and grime.

I think our audiences were largely male, and though I don’t count myself in the nomenclature of prog — hate that word — I would think something in the audiences might have been similar.

In addition to Rancid and the Linda Lindas, Saturday’s opening acts included the Smashing Pumpkins, another ’90s rock band that decades ago seemed to share little with Green Day — one was prog, one was punk — but today can fit comfortably next to any group built around old-fashioned guitars.

She was famed for her enthusiasm for a wide spectrum of musical genres, from prog rock through punk to the dance and rap of the 21st Century.