(Sisario) THE BRAVERY (Monday) Disco first met punk in Britain in the late '70s, but they have had quite a romance in turn-of-the-21st-century New York.

Later M.C.R. travelled in South America, Morocco, Palestine and South Africa, world sound met rock, punk, loops and samples: the new genre is Celtic patchanka which is a mixture of traditional music, punk, reggae, rock and political lyrics.

Lauded as a "drenched-in-fuzz blend of garage rock meets sassy punk" (Exclaim!)

Rap meets punk: Grandmaster Flash opens for the Clash.

Simon Chardiet is the kind of guitarist bar-band fans dream of finding: a one-man twang meltdown who knows where surf meets blues, rockabilly meets klezmer, country meets punk.

Their style is grunge meets punk, with face and body piercing lavishly practiced.

(Jon Pareles) * THE BRAVERY, RADIO 4 (Wednesday) Disco first met punk in Britain in the late '70s, but they have had quite a romance in turn-of-the-21st-century New York.

Stretching from techno to classic rock, the style is rooted where disco met punk, and rock collided with the longer trajectory of feminist performance.