Editing The Stooges (section)

==Musical style==
The Stooges are widely regarded as a seminal [[proto-punk]] act<ref name=all/><ref name="ult"/><ref name=SIR/> and as instrumental in the development of [[punk rock]], [[alternative rock]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[rock music]] at large.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080405232521/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thestooges/biography "The Stooges"], ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' (archived 2008)</ref><ref>Ratliff, Ben, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/arts/08asheton.html "Ron Asheton, Guitarist in the Stooges, Dies at 60"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 8, 2009</ref> In the years before [[noise rock]] was named as a musical genre, the Stooges were combining noise with punk rock in the same vein.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock|url=http://www.treblezine.com/hold-on-to-your-genre-noise-rock/|website=treblezine|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en|date=1 December 2014}}</ref>