garage punk (fusion genre)

The term "punk rock" was first used to describe the music of American garage bands of the mid 1960s, and was not solidified as a genre until 1976.{{sfn|Austen|2005|p=168}} When referring to 1960s groups, the term "garage punk" is usually deployed interchangeably with "garage rock".{{sfn|Aaron|2013|p=52}} The earliest known use of the term "garage punk" appeared in Lenny Kaye's track-by-track liner notes for the 1972 psychedelic music compilation Nuggets{{sfn|Nobles|2012|p=32}} to describe a song by the 1960s garage rock band, the Shadows of Knight, as "classic garage punk".{{Cite AV media notes |title=Nuggets |title-link=Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 |others=Various Artists |year=1972 |first=Lenny |last=Kaye |author-link=Lenny Kaye |type=booklet |publisher=Elektra Records |location=United States}} The Guardian{{'s}} Michael Hann writes: "Look at the tracklisting for Lenny Kaye's original Nuggets album, the record that codified garage punk and you'll find an awful lot of music that would not now fit comfortably into the genre [psychedelic music]."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jul/30/10-of-the-best-garage-punk |title=10 of the best: garage punk |last=Hann |first=Michael |date=30 July 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=18 June 2016}} MTV{{'}}s Beverly Bryan says that "garage punk" may be used "more likely" to refer to "garage rock" or "garage revival".

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{{See also|Proto-punk}}

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Simon Reynolds traces garage punk to American garage rock bands in the 1960s.{{sfn|Reynolds|1999|p=138–139}} He explains that mid 1960s garage punk was largely the domain of untrained teenagers who used sonic effects, such as fuzz tones, and relied heavily on riffs.{{sfn|Reynolds|2012|p=150}} Hann locates the "golden years" of garage punk to 1965–67. The Sonics are credited as a pioneering act in the genre.{{cite web |last1=Ansill |first1=Laura |title=The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics |url=http://music.mxdwn.com/2015/04/14/reviews/the-sonics-here-are-the-sonics/ |website=mxdwn.com |date=14 April 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Pehling|first1=David |title=Garage-Rock Godfathers The Sonics Get Feral at the Fillmore |url=http://archives.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/05/11/garage-rock-godfathers-the-sonics-get-feral-at-the-fillmore |website=SF Weekly |date=11 May 2015}} Critic Tim Sommer wrote: "The Sonics created the template for American garage punk, not to mention crafting the prototype for every punk rock band that thought that three chords and a horny shriek was enough to move a nation."{{cite news |last1=Sommer|first1=Tim|author-link1=Tim Sommer |title=The Musicians Who Actually Deserve a Spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |date=15 November 2016|newspaper=The Observer |url=http://observer.com/2016/11/the-musicians-who-actually-deserve-a-spot-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/}}

In the 1980s, there began a revived interest in the music of the 1960s, starting with garage punk.{{sfn|Reynolds|2005}} Labels like Crypt and Norton began reissuing the work of "lost mid-century weirdos", which led a new generation of punk musicians to rediscover older rock artists like Little Richard and the Sonics. In contrast to the retro garage revival scene, bands who continued to draw heavily from stripped-down 1970s punk, rather than just mid-1960s styles, would be widely categorized as "garage punk".{{sfn|Markesich|2012|p=43}}{{refn|group=nb|King Khan and the Shrines' Aris Kahn believes that the hybrid is not a revival, but a continuation of rock and roll's traditions, and that garage punk exists even in the 1960s. }} According to the AllMusic guide, "Before the punk-pop wing of America's '90s punk revival hit the mainstream, a different breed of revivalist punk had been taking shape in the indie-rock underground. In general, garage punk was not nearly as melodic as punk-pop; instead, garage punk drew its inspiration chiefly from the Detroit protopunk of the Stooges and the MC5.

Allan Rutter writes that the music is often fast-paced and characterized by dirty, choppy guitars and lyrics typically expressing rebelliousness and sometimes "bad taste", and may be performed by "low-fi" acts who are on independent record labels, or who are unsigned.{{Cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/features/1933.html |title=Bluffer's guide: Garage punk |access-date=2 February 2008 |first=Alan |last=Rutter |date=September 2006 |work=TimeOut London |publisher=TimeOut Group Ltd. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212021053/http://www.timeout.com/london/features/1933.html |archive-date=12 December 2008 |url-status=dead }} Bands are generally apolitical and tend to distance themselves from hardcore punk and generally avoid strict adherence to the types of social codes and ideologies associated with the punk subculture.{{Cite journal |last=Bovey |first=Seth |title= Don't Tread on Me: The Ethos of '60s Garage Punk |journal=Popular Music & Society |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=451–459 |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |doi=10.1080/03007760600787515|s2cid=143841415 }}

AllMusic adds: "Some of the first garage punk bands who appeared in the late '80s and early '90s (Mudhoney, the Supersuckers) signed with the Sub Pop label, whose early grunge bands shared some of the same influences and aesthetics (in fact, Mudhoney became one of the founders of grunge)." Bands like New Bomb Turks, the Oblivians, the Gories,{{cite web |title=Clay Reed on Outsight Radio Hours |url=https://archive.org/details/SubsonicsOnOutsightRadioHours |work=Archive.org |access-date=2 December 2012}} the Mummies, the Dirtbombs, and the Humpers helped maintain a cult audience for the style through the 1990s and 2000s. Associated bands from that period contributed to the development of stoner rock, a more psychedelic variation of the genre.

• Garage punk fashion
• List of garage rock bands
• List of garage rock compilations

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