List of garage rock bands

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The following is a list of notable garage rock bands. It is by no means exhaustive, particularly regarding the 60s garage bands whose ranks were populous to an extent not measurable, but which vastly exceeds the contents presented here. This list represents bands who have made surviving recordings and have current Wikipedia articles devoted their biographies. It is not exclusive to collective bands, but also includes solo acts who have created music in this style (usually backed by accompanying musicians). It is the intention of this list to inform the reader about the various acts which are relevant to anyone interested in learning about this style of music.

The list is not exclusive to acts from North America. Though 1960s garage rock is most often associated with the United States and Canada, its attributes were present in other counties, whether the acts who constituted those national scenes are specifically referred to as "garage rock," as is sometimes the case, or not, but whose music nonetheless shares enough of the fundamental stylistic characteristics with North American garage music to warrant inclusion here (see fully sourced explanation in the Garage and its counterparts worldwide section of the garage rock article).[1][2][3] Though garage rock bands generally share fundamental musical characteristics, the genre is nonetheless diverse enough to encompass a wide range of stylistic variations and influences, which include elements of surf rock, blues, R&B, folk rock, and/or psychedelic rock, so bands of differing stylistic varieties are represented here, provided that their styles fall within the framework of what sources consider to be garage rock or one of its close counterparts such as freakbeat and other forms of protopunk from the 1960s. Later garage rock-influenced acts are included in separate sections below covering later periods. Each act's name is listed in a blue link (along with city, state, province, and/or nation in parenthesis).


Original mid-1960s garage bands (primarily active from 1963-68)

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Later period protopunk and garage-influenced bands (1967 to 1979)

The bands listed were often considered garage rock, but also straddled the line with other genres such as punk, psychedelia, blues rock, power pop, hard rock, bubblegum, glam, prog rock, protopunk, art rock or even heavy metal. Many similar British bands of this era (1965-1979) were retrospectively called "Freakbeat" and pub rock.

1980-present garage rock revival bands

Some of these bands overlap with punk, the mod revival, psychobilly, new wave, the Paisley Underground, indie rock, indie pop, neo-psychedelia, power pop, punk blues, noise rock/noisepop, garage punk, Britpop, grunge, hard rock and even riot grrl, queercore or traditional heavy metal.

See also

References

  1. Bangs, Lester (2003). Marcus, Greil, ed. Pychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (First ed.). New York: Ancor Books, a division of Random House Inc. pp. 56–57, 61, 64, 101. ISBN 0-679-72045-6. pp. 54, 57, 61, 64, 101
  2. Marks, Ian D.; McIntyre, Iain (2010). Wild About You: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand. Portland, London, Melbourne: Verse Chorus Press. pp. 7–9, 11–35. ISBN 978-1-891241-28-4. Entire 352-page book is devoted to garage rock in Australia during the 1960s. See intro on 7–9. Also see: Everett True's Australian Garage Rock Primer (website)True's Australian Garage Rock Primer
  3. Bhatia, Sidharth (2014). "1, 4". India Psychedelic (First ed.). India: Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 10, 51. ISBN 978-93-5029-837-4. On pages 10 and 51 the author says that the term often used for many the Indian bands of the 1960s is "garage bands." Source B: "New Book on India's 1960s–1970s Rock Scene: Highly explosive out of time garage-punk from India!". Combustibles. Nissim Ezekiel. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  4. Marks, Ian D. and McIntyre, Iain. Wild About You: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand. Verse Chorus Press. Portland, London, Melbourne. 2010. Forward by Ian McFarlane. pg. 256-264
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Milner, Greg (2004) "Garage Rock: the SPIN record guide", SPIN, September 2004, p. 116, retrieved 2011-03-06
  6. "Album of the Week: Inspiral Carpets". XFM. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  7. "NY-based Yeah Yeah Yeahs headline Love Garage". The Jakarta Post. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2015-11-01.

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