Key album: Drop of the Creature (1986) If there ever was a band that fully channeled the spirit of garage rock it was these guys from Boston. Starting out back in 1979, their name is always ...

This list looks at three early bands of future rock legends. What’s immediately obvious is how profoundly they stuck out ...

For that original album, Kaye collected classics of mid-1960s garage rock, often performed by short-lived bands who may have only had a single hit. Occasionally, a particular member of one of ...

During the 1960s the Inland Empire was a hotbed for garage rock bands. That music scene also showed the important role Latino groups played in the area. Although they never recorded, one of those ...

One of the most legendary garage-rock bands to emerge from San Francisco during the '60s, the Flamin' Groovies released a series of albums that made minimal impact on the charts, but exerted a ...

Mixing of '50s and '60s sounds -- elements of early rock and ... modern garage-punk grit, singer/bassist Shannon Shaw and singer/guitarist Cody Blanchard first started playing music together ...

Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection ... with must-hear new music. MJ Lenderman, Illuminati ...