garage band
noun
: an amateur rock band typically holding its rehearsals in a garage and usually having only a local audience
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After all, these aren’t teenagers playing in a garage band after school.
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
David was in a garage band Sabrina’s dad, too, has a background in performing — though, not at the level that the chart-topping singer pursued.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
As punk rock grew in popularity in the early 1980s, compilations of 1960s garage bands helped fans discover the music’s DIY roots.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
The other cool thing about Austin was everybody had a garage band or music project, but nobody was in a cover band.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
The extremely SoCal video — featuring garage band practice, drives with the top down, skate sessions and house parties — finds the singer fantasizing about his bandmate’s girlfriend, played by D’Amelio.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
With little support available from a government level, the band has taken it upon themselves to organize tours for their peers, such as the indie rock trio Sobs from Singapore and the Manila garage band Ourselves the Elves.
—Max Pilley, Spin, 22 Sep. 2023
Who wanted though to still have that rock and roll, garage band kind of feel.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
Van Morrison has been playing Dylan songs going all the way back to his days as the frontman of the Sixties garage band Them.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
David was in a garage band Sabrina’s dad, too, has a background in performing — though, not at the level that the chart-topping singer pursued.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
As punk rock grew in popularity in the early 1980s, compilations of 1960s garage bands helped fans discover the music’s DIY roots.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
The other cool thing about Austin was everybody had a garage band or music project, but nobody was in a cover band.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
The extremely SoCal video — featuring garage band practice, drives with the top down, skate sessions and house parties — finds the singer fantasizing about his bandmate’s girlfriend, played by D’Amelio.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
With little support available from a government level, the band has taken it upon themselves to organize tours for their peers, such as the indie rock trio Sobs from Singapore and the Manila garage band Ourselves the Elves.
—Max Pilley, Spin, 22 Sep. 2023
Who wanted though to still have that rock and roll, garage band kind of feel.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
Van Morrison has been playing Dylan songs going all the way back to his days as the frontman of the Sixties garage band Them.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
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