List of garage rock bands
This following is a list of garage rock bands. It is by no means exhaustive.
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Original mid-1960s garage bands (primarily active from 1963-67)
A
- The Ace of Cups (all female group)
- The Allman Joys
- The Atlantics
B
- Baby Huey & the Babysitters
- The Balloon Farm
- The Barbarians
- The Baroques
- The Beau Brummels
- The Birdwatchers
- Blues Magoos
- The Brogues
- The Bumpers (band) (Rome, Italy)
C
- The Castaways
- The Charlatans
- The Cherry Slush
- The Chocolate Watchband
- The Choir
- Clear Light
- Ray Columbus & the Invaders
- The Contents Are (Davenport, Iowa)[1][2]
- The Continental Co-ets (all female group)
- Count Five
- The Creatures, (Australia)[3]
- The Critters
- The Cryan' Shames (Chicago, Illinois)
D
- The D-Men
- The Daughters of Eve (all female group)
- Dino, Desi & Billy
- The Doughboys (New Jersey)
- The Dovers
- Downliners Sect
E
F
- The Feminine Complex (all female group)
- The Fifth Estate
- Five Americans
G
- The Gants
- The Gestures
- The Golden Cups
- Goldie and the Gingerbreads (all female group)
- The Golliwogs
- GONN
- The Great Society
- Green Fuz
- The Grodes/The Tongues of Truth
- The Guess Who (early years)
H
- The Haunted (Montreal, Canada)
- Henry Flynt & The Insurrections
- The Heart Beats (all female group)
- The Hombres
- The Human Beinz
- The Human Expression
- Hunger
I
- The Ides of March (Chicago, Illinois)
K
- Kenny And The Kasuals
- The Kingsmen
- The Kinks
- The Knickerbockers
- Terry Knight and the Pack (later Grand Funk Railroad)
L
- The La De Das
- The Leaves
- The Litter
- Liverpool Five
- Los Saicos
- Love
- The Luv'd Ones (all female group)
- The Loved Ones (Australia)
M
- The Magic Mushrooms (Pennsylvania)
- The Masters Apprentices
- The McCoys
- The Merry-Go-Round
- Michael and the Messengers
- Thee Midniters
- Milan the Leather Boy
- The Missing Links
- Los Mockers (Uruguay)
- The Mojo Men
- The Monks
- Mouse and the Traps
- Moving Sidewalks
- Mr. Lucky and the Gamblers
- The Music Explosion
- The Music Machine
- The Mystery Trend
- Mystic Tide
N
- The Nightcrawlers (Florida)
O
- Oscar and the Majestics
- The Other Half
- The Outcasts (Texas)
- The Outsiders
- The Outsiders (The Netherlands)
P
- Paul Revere & the Raiders
- The Paupers
- The Pink Finks
- The Pleasure Seekers (all female group)
- The Pleazers
- The Premiers
- The Pretty Things
- the Purple Hearts
Q
R
- The Rationals
- The Remains
- Rick's Continentals
- The Rising Storm
- Richard and the Young Lions
- The Rivieras
- The Rokes (Italy)
S
- Los Saicos
- Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
- The Seeds
- The Shadows of Knight
- The Shaggs (all female group)
- Los Shakers (Uruguay)
- The Shanes (Sweden)
- Sir Douglas Quintet
- The Sonics
- Sons of Adam
- The Sparkles
- The Spats
- The Spiders (band later known as Alice Cooper)
- The Spiders (Japanese band)
- The Squires
- The Standells
- The Strangeloves
- Strawberry Alarm Clock
- The Swamp Rats
- Syndicate of Sound
- The Syndicats
T
- Them
- The Tempests
- The Third Bardo
- The Throb
- Tommy James and the Shondells
- The Trashmen
- The Troggs
- The Troyes
U
- The Ugly Ducklings (Toronto, Ontario)
- Unrelated Segments
V
W
- The Wailers
- The Weeds
- We the People
- Wild Cherries, (Australia)[4]
- Ed Wool and the Nomads/Wool
- The Woolies
Z
Later period and borderline garage 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.
- The Amboy Dukes
- The Balloon Farm
- Blues Project
- Bubble Puppy
- Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
- The Charlatans
- DMZ
- The Electric Eels
- Flamin' Groovies
- The Fifth Estate
- The Frost
- The Golden Cups
- The Lollipop Shoppe
- Love
- Lyme and Cybelle
- Max Frost and the Troopers
- MC5
- Mind Garage
- Nazz
- New York Dolls
- The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle (all female group)
- Ramones
- The Rationals
- Sagittarius
- Silver Laughter
- SRC
- The Stooges
- The Shams (all female group)
- Thor's Hammer
- The Uniques
- The Velvet Underground
- We the People
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.
- 22-20s
- 1313 Mockingbird Lane
- The 5.6.7.8's
- The 69 Eyes (until Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams)
- The A-Bones
- Arctic Monkeys
- Bam Balams
- Bantam Rooster
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Bass Drum of Death
- Be Your Own Pet
- The Bellrays
- Bikeride
- The Black Box Revelation
- The Black Angels
- The Black Keys[5]
- Black Lips
- Billy Childish
- The Blueskins
- Blood Red Shoes
- The Bogeymen
- The Buff Medways
- The Blue Van
- The Bronx (band)
- The Cannibals
- Capsula
- Carbon/Silicon
- The Charms
- Cheap Freaks
- The Chesterfield Kings
- Chikita Violenta
- The Clarks
- Clinic
- Comasummer (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- Compulsive Gamblers
- Coachwhips
- The Cramps
- The Cynics
- The D4
- The Datsuns
- Death from Above 1979
- Dead Moon
- The Dead Weather
- Deerhunter
- Deja Voodoo
- The Detroit Cobras
- The DHDFD's
- The Dirtbombs
- Dublin Duck Dispensary
- Eagles of Death Metal
- Electric Frankenstein
- Thee Exciters
- The Fades
- The Flaming Sideburns
- The Fleshtones[5]
- Fortune & Maltese
- Foxboro Hot Tubs
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Fratellis
- The Frumpies
- Fury
- The Fuzztones
- Gas Huffer
- Girl Trouble
- The Gondoliers
- The Gories[5]
- The Greenhornes
- The Gruesomes
- Guitar Wolf
- The Gun Club
- Harlem
- Thee Headcoats
- Heartless Bastards
- The Hellacopters
- The Hives
- Hollywood Sinners
- The Horrors
- Inspiral Carpets[6]
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy
- Japandroids
- Jay Reatard
- Jet
- The Jim Jones Revue
- The Kills
- King Khan
- The King Khan & BBQ Show
- King Tuff
- Kings of Leon
- The Knux
- The Larksmen
- The Last Drive
- The Launderettes
- The Libertines
- Steve Lieberman
- Los Dynamite
- Los Peyotes
- Lyres[5]
- Magneta Lane
- Mando Diao
- Mark Sultan
- Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
- Thee Mighty Caesars
- The Milkshakes
- The Miracle Workers
- Mondo Topless
- The Monolators
- The Mooney Suzuki
- The Morlocks
- Moving Units
- Muck and the Mires
- Mudhoney[5]
- The Muffs
- The Mummies
- The Murder City Devils
- Nevada Smith
- Nobunny
- The Nomads
- Oblivians
- The Operation M.D.
- Thee Oh Sees
- The Pandoras
- The Phantom Creeps
- Phantom Planet
- Plan 9
- Psychotic Reaction
- The Priscillas
- The Prisoners
- Pussy Galore
- The Raconteurs
- The Reatards
- Reigning Sound[5]
- The Revellions
- Rocket from the Crypt
- Royal Republic
- Ty Segall
- Thee Shams
- Shrubs (USA)
- Silent Border
- The Sick Rose
- S*M*A*S*H
- Soledad Brothers
- The Sound Explosion
- The Spits
- The Static Jacks
- The Stems
- The Stepford Husbands
- The Stomachmouths
- The Strokes
- The Subways
- Surf Trio
- The Temper Trap
- The Things
- The Three 4 Tens
- Tokyo Police Club
- U.I.C.
- The U-Men
- The Urges
- The Vaccines
- The Vines
- Violent Femmes
- The Von Bondies
- The Walkmen
- Wavves
- Weezer
- The Whigs
- The White Stripes[5]
- The Willowz
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs[7]
- Young Knives
- The Young Veins
- The Young Werewolves
See also
- American rock
- Dunwich Records
- Freakbeat
- Garage punk
- Group Sounds (Japan)
- List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States
- Nederbeat and Nederpop
- Protopunk
- Punk rock
- Pub rock (UK)
- Rock and roll
- Surf rock
- Uruguayan Invasion
References
- ↑ The Contents Are "Through You" (review of reissued album, Through You. Rising Storm.http://therisingstorm.net/the-contents-are-through-you/ )
- ↑ The Contents Are (band profile). Garage Hangover. http://www.garagehangover.com/contentsare/
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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. 187-192
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Milner, Greg (2004) "Garage Rock: the SPIN record guide", SPIN, September 2004, p. 116, retrieved 2011-03-06
- ↑ "Album of the Week: Inspiral Carpets". XFM. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ↑ NY-based Yeah Yeah Yeahs headline Love Garage
External links
- '60s Garage Bands – Researching the Local and Regional Bands of the 1960s
- About .com A Brief History of Punk - Traces Early History of Punk rock From Garage Era Through Late 1970s
- About.com Profile of Garage Rock – another, slightly different, definition and history of Garage Rock.
- Beyond the Beat Generation - Contains Interviews With Former Members of 1960s Garage Bands and Provides Other Information and Links
- Garage Hangover - Researching Local, Regional, and International Garage Bands of the 1960s by State/Province and Country
- My First Band - Biographies of 1960s Garage Rock Bands
- Southern Garage Bands - Information About 1960s Garage Bands From the Southern United States