What is garage rock?
Q: What is garage rock?
A: Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that was popular in the mid-1960s in the United States, Canada, and other countries. It has experienced several more recent revivals.
Q: Why is it called "garage rock"?
A: The name "garage rock" comes from many of the groups that played it being made up of young amateurs who sometimes rehearsed in their families' garages. Some of the bands were older and professional.
Q: What kind of sound does garage rock have?
A: Garage rock often has simple lyrics and sometimes uses guitars distorted through a device called a fuzzbox. Surf rock was an early influence, as well as the Beatles and other beat groups from the British Invasion which became popular later on.
Q: When did garage rock decline in popularity?
A: After 1968, as more complex forms of rock music took over, garage rock records declined in popularity.
Q: How has garage punk been revived since then?
A: In recent decades, there have been several revivals of the garage punk style with modern groups preferring a "back to basics" and "do it yourself" musical approach.
Q: Who coined the term “punk” for this genre?
A:In the early 1970s certain critics began to refer to this style as "punk rock", making it one of the first forms of music to use that name.
Q: What are some alternative names for this genre?
A:Garage punk is also sometimes referred to as '60s punk or protopunk to set it apart from later movements associated with punk music.
