‘90s California bands that defined the second wave of punk rock

Punk rock has its roots in late ‘70s New York and London with bands like the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Damned. But if you first learned about those bands from t-shirts from Hot Topic, you probably grew up in a different era. The so-called second wave includes bands such as Bad Religion, the Offspring and Green Day. These California bands are credited -- or criticized -- by some punk purists for mainstreaming the angry and rebellious spirit of the genre and selling millions of albums in the process.