Iggy Pop circa 1970. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer (Getty Images)
Before punk, there was proto-punk, a musical genre comprised of a rag-tag bunch of garage rockers, avant-garde musicians, and artists too outrageous for categorization (we’re looking at you, Iggy). Proto-punk emerged in the late ’60s and continued into the early ’70s, but music fans and historians didn’t conceive of the genre until…
