Garage rock (revival)

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The garage rock revival is a musical phenomenon 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.

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Proto punk bands of the early '70s such as The Stooges and The New York Dolls were arguably garage rock revivalists. Iggy Pop had 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.

One band under the genre of garage rock revival is the up-coming London based band The Rivitive. The four piece band, still only 15 and tipped for great things with their imaginative lyrics and songs written by Nick Hartman said to be the next Robert Plant, incredible solos from the incredible Arthur Carrol, rythymic drum beats and mental drum solos from William Babington Eaves and mind blowing bass riffs by the bands bassist Charlie Warner, labelled the next Michael Balzary (Flea) from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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 2000s, a garage rock revival gained mainstream appeal and commercial airplay, something that had eluded garage rock bands of the past. This was lead by four bands christened by the media as the "The" bands: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, The Flaming Sideburns, 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, Jet, The Hellacopters and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 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.

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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, 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
My First Band
Popmeter - Rare sixties music on demand : A selection of top garage, psyche, soul and Francophone tunes...