Love garage rock? Need some solid tracks to pad that garage rock playlist? These four songs aren’t just iconic in the garage rock genre, but they’re also considered by many to be one-hit wonders.

What exactly is garage rock? No, it’s not as simple as rock music recorded in someone’s garage. By definition, the genre can be described as raw rock and roll, particularly the type that became ...

Victor Wooten, Andy Leach, Senior Director of Library and Archives, Greg Harris, President and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Roy “FutureMan” Wooten (l-r) It’s been 52 years since The Byrds ...

Back in the ’60s The Sonics could legitimately boast that they were one of the biggest bands in the Tacoma, Wash., rock scene, but that was about the extent of their success. They finally called it ...

Frank Zappa once referred to Joe's Garage as a "stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music." In other words, it was another Frank Zappa album. By the time Zappa ...

Garage rock barely existed in Nineties Austin. The underground was dominated by Trance Syndicate's psychedelic gutter noise that evolved from Crust and Ed Hall into ...And You Will Know Us by the ...

It's no surprise that The Woggles' tough but tight garage classicism appeals to the ear of old-school rocker and radio host Little Steven Van Zandt, who released Rock and Roll Backlash on his own ...

Garage rock has undergone a serious rejuvenation in recent memory. Over the last few years, bands like The Black Keys and Best Coast have surfaced in the mainstream, and as a result, garage-rock ...

First the term. (And a big thanks to the fabulous word-nerd website for tracking all these references down – English Language & Usage Stack Exchange is a question-and-answer site for linguists, ...