Many studies on punk rock focus on its political associations rather than its music. Even music- theoretical scholarship often stops at describing the genre's simplicity, which authors explain largely resulted from early punks' disdain of the bombast of progressive rock (Borthwick and Moy 2005). Progressive rock's level of musicality would, for example, undermine the importance of lyrics that its simplicity highlights (Ambrosch 2018, Laing 2015). Some later punk music, however, employs strategies associated with progressive music, questioning the conceptual rift between the genres. In this paper, I use Almén's 2008 theory of musical meaning to show how musically progressive elements in punk rock songs support politically progressive messages. Thus, I propose a two- dimensional understanding for the supposedly contradictory notion of "progressive punk rock."