Frat rock

Garage rock
Other names	Garage punk '60s punk
Stylistic origins	Rock and roll rockabilly beat rhythm and blues soul blues surf rock instrumental rock pop
Cultural origins	Early 1960s, United States and Canada
Typical instruments	Electric guitar bass drums electronic organ tambourine harmonica
Derivative forms	Punk rock post-punk revival acid rock power pop glam rock new wave hard rock proto-punk punk blues indie rock psychobilly shoegazing heavy metal Paisley Underground
Subgenres
Frat rock
Fusion genres
Garage punk (fusion genre)
Regional scenes
United States Canada United Kingdom Australia Netherlands Mexico Uruguay Peru Japan India

Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada. The term derives from the perception that groups were often made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, although many were professional.

The style, a precursor to acid rock, is characterized by aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery, sometimes using guitars distorted through a fuzzbox. In the US and Canada, surf rock—and later the Beatles and the beat groups of the British Invasion—motivated thousands of young people to form bands between 1963 and 1968. Hundreds of acts produced regional hits, and some had national hits. Though largely associated with North America, counterparts were present elsewhere as part of the worldwide "beat boom" of the era. With the advent of psychedelia, a number of garage bands incorporated exotic elements into the genre's primitive stylistic framework, but after 1968, as more elaborate forms of rock music overtook the marketplace, garage rock records largely disappeared from the national and regional charts.

During the 1960s the music was not recognized as a distinct genre and had no specific name, but critical retrospect in the early 1970s—and particularly the release of the 1972 compilation album Nuggets—did much to define and memorialize the style. As critics of the period began to prescribe a scope for genre, they sometimes used the term "punk rock", making it the first form of music to bear this description. Since then, the genre has sometimes been referred to as "garage punk", as well as subsequent labels such as "60s punk" or "proto-punk" which distinguish it from the more commonly known punk movement of the mid- to late-1970s that it influenced.

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