Marky Ramone and the Intruders

Neo-proto is a contemporary revivalist rock microgenre that consciously recreates the raw, pre-punk energy of late-1960s and early-1970s “proto‑punk” and hard-edged garage rock. It favors blown-out guitars, bar-band tempos, shouted hooks, and minimalist song structures, sounding like a modern band time-warped into a tiny club with vintage amps, fuzz boxes, and a tape machine. The production is typically live, gritty, and saturated, leaning on analog warmth and imperfections. Lyrically, neo-proto toggles between streetwise attitude, sardonic humor, and working-class realism. The result is swaggering, high-velocity rock that connects the dots from ’60s garage and Detroit crunch to today’s DIY scenes.

Ramonescore is a minimalist, high-tempo strain of pop-punk that explicitly models its sound, songcraft, and attitude on the blueprint set by the Ramones. It favors short, hook-stuffed songs built from all-downstroke power-chord strumming, four-on-the-floor drumming, and sing-along choruses with "whoa-oh" gang vocals. Musically, it relies on major-key I–IV–V (and occasional vi) progressions, brisk 160–200 BPM tempos, count-off intros, and compact arrangements with little to no guitar soloing. Lyrically, it leans toward everyday romance, heartbreak, teen obsessions, B‑movies, summer, pizza, and pop-culture references—delivered with deadpan humor and bubblegum-melodic charm. Rather than inventing a new aesthetic, Ramonescore codifies a purist interpretation of 1970s Ramones-style punk, and spreads it globally through DIY labels, split EPs, and tight-knit scenes.