Garage rock (revival)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the talk page for details.
The garage rock revival is a musical phenonemon largely influenced by the original garage rock of the 1960s. Its earliest roots can be traced to the early 1970s, following the release of Nuggets in 1972 and continues to this day through the Western World as modern youngsters continue to pay tribute to a vanquished golden age of rock and roll that was 1960s garage rock.
[edit] History
The first garage rock revival occurred in the mid-1970s, when bands such as The Dictators, DMZ, The Hypstrz and The Fleshtones emulated the spirit, look, and sound of sixties garage rock. Several of the "punk" bands that emerged in the later seventies, notably The Ramones, were heavily influenced by the sixties garage acts, as were proto punk bands of the early '70s such as Detroit Iggy and The Stooges and The New York Dolls. Iggy had even been in a mid-sixties, Detroit garage band, The Iguanas, who released a version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1966 and recorded many other songs that fit within the genre.
In the 1980s, another garage rock revival saw a number of bands earnestly trying to replicate the sound, style, and look of the '60s garage bands (see The Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, The Milkshakes, and The Cynics as examples of this); this trend coincided with a similar surf rock revival, and both styles fed in into the alternative rock movement and future grunge music explosion, which some say was partially inspired by garage rock from Seattle like The Sonics and The Wailers, but was largely unknown by fans outside the immediate circles of the bands themselves.
This movement also evolved into an even more primitive form of garage rock that became known as garage punk by the late 1980s, thanks to bands such as Detroiters The Gories and Thee Mighty Caesars, The Mummies, and The Devil Dogs. Bands playing garage punk differed from the garage rock revival bands in that they were less cartoonish caricatures of '60s garage bands and their overall sound was even more loud, obnoxious, and raw, often infusing elements of proto punk and 1970s punk rock (hence the "garage punk" term).
The garage rock revival and garage punk coexisted throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s with many independent record labels releasing thousands of records by bands playing various styles of primitive rock and roll all around the world. Some of the more prolific of these independent record labels included Estrus, Hangman, Rip Off, MuSick, In The Red, Telstar, Crypt, Dionysus, Get Hip, Bomp! and Long Gone John's Sympathy for the Record Industry.
In the early 2000's, a garage rock revival gained mainstream appeal and commercial airplay, something that had eluded garage rock bands of the past. This was lead by The Strokes, The Vines, The Hives and The White Stripes, the latter of which came out of the prominent Detroit rock scene which also include; Von Bondies, The Dirtbombs, The Detroit Cobras, The Go, The Hentchmen and the Paybacks. Elsewhere, other lesser-known acts such as The Boss Martians, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Satan's Pilgrims, The 5.6.7.8's, The New Bomb Turks, the Oblivians, Frigg A-Go-Go, Bleed, Teengenerate, The Makers, Mooney Suzuki Guitar Wolf, Lost Sounds, The Kills The Young Werewolves and The breakUps enjoyed moderate underground success and appeal. Other notable bands that enjoyed commercial success, but not to the extent of the "Big Four" (The Strokes, The Vines, The Hives, and the White Stripes), were The Datsuns, Kings of Leon, and Jet, though some of these bands popped up on the scene a few years following the initial wave.
In the late '90s, Steven van Zandt ("Little Steven") became a torchbearer, spokesperson, and proponent for both garage rock and the garage rock revival, promoting concerts and festivals across the United States, and also, in 2002, starting a syndicated radio program called Little Steven's Underground Garage and also launching an Underground Garage channel on the Sirius Satellite Radio network.
[edit] See also
- Garage punk
- Garage rock
- Pub rock (UK)
- Pub rock (Australia)
- Group Sounds (Japan)
- List of garage rock bands
[edit] External links
- 100% Garage Rock Webring
- Beyond The Calico Wall @ pHinnWeb - Garage rock info and links.
- Alt.Music.Banana-Truffle - Usenet newsgroup for the discussion of old and new garage rock and garage punk music.
- The Bomp List - Email list for the discussion of garage rock.
- The Garage - A collection of garage rock resources on the Internet.
- GaragePunk.com - Garage, punk, and primitive rock'n'roll podcast, audioblog, forums & links.
- Garage Rock Radio Homepage - Links to and reviews of garage rock radio shows available on the Internet.
- Little Steven's Underground Garage - Weekly syndicated garage rock radio program hosted by "Little Steven" Van Zandt.
- Trans-World '60s Punk:Cutie Morning Moon - Japanese Group Sounds and more.
- SFTRI official site- Home to many notable Garage rock artists
- 1960s Garage Rock Toledo, Ohio
- My First Band
- Popmeter - Rare sixties music on demand : A selection of top garage, psyche, soul and Francophone tunes...
- Thee Cave Garage Punk site dedicated to the garage punk sounds from the 80s until today.
| Alternative rock | British Invasion | Country rock | Hard rock | Heavy metal | Power pop | Psychedelic | Punk rock | Rockabilly | Soft rock | Southern rock | ||
| Arena rock | Blues-rock | Boogaloo | Emo | Folk-rock | Garage rock | Girl group | Glam rock | Hardcore | Instrumental rock | Jam band | Mod | Progressive rock | Surf | Symphonic rock | Yacht rock | ||
| Aboriginal rock | Anatolian rock | Art rock | Avant-rock | Cello rock | Chicano rock | Desert rock | Detroit rock | Dialect rock | Flamenco-rock | Glam metal | Heartland rock | Jangle pop | Krautrock | Madchester | Mersey sound | Piano rock | Post-rock | Pub rock (Aussie) | Pub rock (UK) | Punta rock | Raga rock | Raï rock | Rockoson | Samba-rock | Skiffle | ||
