Garage Rock
Garage rock is raw, simple and energetic rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s among young, mostly amateur bands in the United States and Canada.
Songs use a few basic chords, fuzzy guitars, a cheap-sounding organ and shouted or sneering vocals, often recorded quickly and roughly. The name comes from the idea of young bands rehearsing in the family garage. It fed directly into punk in the 1970s and came back in the early 2000s with a wave of revival bands.
Artists it is known for: The Sonics, The Kingsmen, The White Stripes, The Strokes.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and Canada, late 1950s to mid-1960s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 17%
About 14,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have garage rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Garage Rock artists
Arctic Monkeys
The Strokes
The Black Keys
Royal Blood
The White Stripes
The Fratellis
Kasabian
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Black Pontiac
The Libertines
The garage rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.