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garage rock

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garage rock (uncountable)

(US, music) A simple, relatively raw form of rock and roll from the mid-1960s.

garage-rock (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of garage rock

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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garage-rock

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"Garage rock", Billboard, 29 July 2006, 118 (30), p. 11. Some groups, such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, broke up. Source: Internet

Among the many highlights of the programme are veterans of garage-rock, The Sonics, who had a great come back album fifty years after their rise to fame, in the mid 1960's. Source: Internet

During the sessions for The E Street Shuffle, Springsteen recorded (and eventually abandoned) a few vamp-y songs that had been road-tested and audience-approved, and a few garage-rock exercises that didn’t fit the style he was exploring at the time. Source: Internet

Death's punk influence remains, but Rough Francis' reach extends further into rock-and-roll history, mining the '60s for a slightly looser, garage-rock vibe. Source: Internet

The first is a bluesy strut, the second a garage-rock stomp with Iggy himself on guitar, with MMW behind him, and lyrics in Spanish(!). Source: Internet

The music alone -- the potent mixture of garage-rock sneering and Krautrock sleekness -- is enough to support the feeling that the next few years of the Fall could be great ones (the most recent EP and live album also aids in this feeling). Source: Internet

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