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unusual facts about garage rock


Tango in the Attic

--THIS ARTICLE IS WRITTEN IN BRITISH ENGLISH, WHICH TREATS COLLECTIVE NOUNS LIKE "BAND" AS PLURALS (e.g. "Tango In The Attic ARE a band"). PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS.--> a Scottish lo-fi, garage, pop band from Glenrothes, formed in 2008.


Brain Donor

Wearing full make-up in the kabuki style of early KISS, the band's curious aims are said to be a desire to combine Van Halen-esque heavy metal with garage rock in the style of Blue Cheer, and Japanese bands High Rise and Mainliner.

Brendan Kibble

The Navahodads split up in 2003, and Kibble moved to Austin, Texas, where he formed The Texreys a Garage rock band.

Can't Seem to Make You Mine

The song has been called a "garage rock classic" by authors Will Hodgkinson and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and it is featured on the 1998 box set Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968.

Hand Springs

"Hand Springs/Cedar Point '76" is a split 7" single released in 2000 by Detroit garage rock bands The White Stripes and The Dirtbombs. The White Stripes song "Hand Springs" is on the A-side and "Cedar Point '76" by The Dirtbombs is on the B-side.

Last Nite

"Last Nite" is a song by the garage rock band The Strokes, released as the second single from their debut album, Is This It and written by The Stroke's frontman Julian Casablancas.

Lea Riders Group

They became famous in Sweden and abroad, as a "raw, gritty and authentic blues and R&B group" in the style of similar blues-oriented British Invasion bands and American garage bands such as The Chocolate Watchband.

Music of Kansas

In the 1960s, blue-eyed soul, R&B and garage rock bands became popular with acts such as the Fabulous Flippers, The Blue Things, the Red Dogs, the Serfs, Eric & The Norsemen, Don Gould's The Sensational Showmen and Mike Finnigan traveling the midwest and releasing regional singles.

Pebbles, Volume 21

The Electras are not the same early 1960s garage rock band that included John Kerry but may be the same band that also recorded a version of "Action Woman" (the original by the Litter is the opening cut on Pebbles, Volume 1).

Ragpicker

Rag and Bone (song) is by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, told from the point of view of two rag and bone collectors.

Saalschutz

It combines the styles of Synthpop, Electropunk and Electroclash – as well as Metal, Garage Rock, Tribal House and Trance – creating a style similar to that of Knarf Rellöm, Räuberhöhle and (in parts) Egotronic.

The S.I.G.I.T.

Although the band doesn't like to be categorized, they've been described as a garage rock band and often compared to Wolfmother and The Datsuns, even dubbed as 'Indonesian Answer To Wolfmother' by some Australian media.

The Stems

2006 saw the release of another anthology titled Terminal Cool in the United States by the prestigious garage rock and punk label Get Hip Records.

Too Drunk to Fuck

The song features a heavy surf rock/garage rock riff from guitarist East Bay Ray and satirical lyrics from Jello Biafra that paint a trenchant picture of an outrageous, moronic party.


see also

Capsula

The Austin Chronicle wrote about Capsula live show at APF: "Capsula’s dark wave rock – surfing basslines, needling leads, and kit-crashing propulsion – pushes the motoring thrust of early Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with its own distinct pulse. These aren’t musicians playing at a band, they’re a fabulous gilded snake, writhing on a big stage while plying seismic garage rock."

Eric Friedl

He was a founding member of the Memphis garage-rock band the Oblivians, and was a member, along with Jay Reatard of The Reatards and King Louie Bankston of The Royal Pendletons, in the garage band, the Bad Times.

FIOE

First Impressions of Earth, the third album by American garage rock band, The Strokes

Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 2

The subtitle is taken from Riot on Sunset Strip (a movie that was actually released in 1967); the film features live performances by two classic garage-rock bands, the Standells (featured on Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 1) and the Chocolate Watchband.

Mark Tulin

In particular, "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" is regarded by many critics as a defining song of the psychedelic and garage rock music, appearing on the famous Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 compilation in 1972.

Moonshake

The band briefly experimented with an expanded garage-rock lineup, but did not release any more material (although Buchuele would later contribute to the revived Bark Psychosis).

Okamoto's

Okamoto's is a psychedelic garage rock band made up of four 19-year-olds from Shinjuku, Tokyo, who first got together while still in middle school.

Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle, a 1960s-era, all-female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan

The Laundronauts

Prior to the formation of The Laundronauts, bassist Wynne and guitarist Horak played in the seven-piece sixties garage-rock band, Captain Cook and the Nootka Sound, which broke up in 1998 and who performed at Fuzz Fest ’98 and toured with El Vez.

Turtle River, Minnesota

The mayor of Turtle River is Gary Burger, of garage rock band The Monks.