But before it all happened, plenty of rock bands were already doing just that. It was by necessity, not by choice. These bands didn’t have the money, the experience, or the talent to create walls of ...

On an elegant stage crowded with cables, amplifiers and musical instruments, a guitar player in blue jeans and long gray hair was getting loud again as he dug into a garage rock standard, “The ...

When it comes to the very best garage rock albums of all time, few beat out The Sonics’ 1965 album Here Are The Sonics!!! It was the blueprint in every sense of the word.

These garage rock one-hit wonders had some pretty hefty success with the 1965 tune “Liar, Liar”. The proto-punk song hit no. 12 on the Hot 100 chart, and the band never saw the same level of ...

But few people in the 2000s took that so literally as the Keys. For the Ohian duo, garage rock is more than merely a musical aesthetic, it's a way of life.

And ’60s garage is still their guiding light. “We’re more into the spirit than the actual ethos of that music,” Brennan says. “And the spirit is that you do whatever you want, if it ...