If you set yourself up as a punk band, then you pretty much just have to play punk.

They played punk for its drive and its pop concision, not its vestiges of rebellion.

But eventually we just wanted to go from playing fast punk to really touching people's hearts," Hindman says.

The Blue Hearts, which have had several million-selling records in Japan, played old-school punk.

He got involved in playing punk at that time and ultimately stuck with music as what he wanted to do.

They played old-school punk, and though their music never appeared in a polished form, it was said to "never hold back the passion."

Mainly prevalent in the 70s and 80s, all music styles were covered, whether the bands were playing rock, punk, metal, futurist, ska or dance.

I got into a band when I was 13 playing melodic punk.

The band plays punk and 1960s-inspired straight-ahead rock music, in an independent garage band style.

After being tired of playing punk they began looking for three other members to form a hardcore band.