Genre
Garage Rock
19 bands in the Top 500 carry Garage Rock as a primary or secondary tag.
- 19 bands
- 2000s dominant era
- 3 countries
- #014 The Velvet Underground
Underground New York pioneers whose influence on indie rock is incalculable.
- #018 Sex Pistols
Detonators of UK punk whose brief career rewired popular music.
- #046 The White Stripes
Detroit duo whose stripped-down blues garage revived rock's primal urge.
- #047 The Strokes
New York garage-rock revivalists who set the 2000s indie template.
- #076 The Kinks
Ray Davies' London band whose riff-rock prefigured punk and metal.
- #077 The Yardbirds
British R&B incubator that launched Clapton, Beck, and Page.
- #131 Eagles of Death Metal
Loose, swaggering rock-and-roll duo with a sense of humor.
- #132 The Black Keys
Akron blues-rock duo whose retro grit became a 2010s mainstream sound.
- #133 The Dead Weather
Garage-rock supergroup with Jack White and Alison Mosshart.
- #134 The Raconteurs
Detroit-Nashville rock band led by Jack White and Brendan Benson.
- #205 The Stooges
Iggy Pop's Detroit band, proto-punk torchbearers of confrontational rock.
- #206 MC5
Detroit revolutionaries whose live energy lit the fuse for punk.
- #208 The Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman's proto-punk songbook of wide-eyed everyday Americana.
- #301 The Vines
Sydney garage-rockers central to the early-2000s rock revival.
- #302 Jet
Melbourne brothers whose 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' became a 2000s rock standard.
- #311 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Melbourne septet of relentless output across psych, metal, and microtonal experimentation.
- #317 The Easybeats
Sydney British-Invasion-style band whose 'Friday on My Mind' is a global classic.
- #385 Fat White Family
London band of seedy art-rock and provocative theatre.
- #402 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
NYC trio whose Karen O-led art-punk became a 2000s indie touchstone.