Garage Rock
Garage rock is an evolution of rock & roll with a rawer, more energetic and riff-driven style with fairly simple chord progressions and lyrics, named for its association with amateur, often teenage "garage bands". Garage rock has also been closely associated with the terms "punk?" and "punk rock", eventually influencing the 1970s? genres who took that name, and consequently being retrospectively referred to as 60s punk or garage punk.
Early garage rock became established in the US? by the early 1960s, particularly in a style which has come to be known as frat rock? or "party rock", imbuing the hard R&B? grooves of rock & roll with sloppier playing and vocal delivery, as well as prominent usage of the electric organ and recordings with handclaps or crowd noises to give it a live performance feel. Frat rock was particularly popular in the Pacific Northwest?, with Portland? bands like The Kingsmen? ("Louie Louie") and Paul Revere & the Raiders? finding regional and then national success.
Following the frat rock era, fuzzboxes became more prominent in garage rock as it transitioned into the psychedelic? era, manifesting in one of the earliest styles of psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s, known as garage-psych?. This was paralleled by the British? mod-related? freakbeat? movement around the same time. [etc, stuff about 60s acid punk]
By the early 1970s?, these initial waves of garage rock had diminished, but the genre maintained its influence in harder-edged hard rock? bands in this "proto-punk?" era, particularly being associated with Detroit? bands like the MC5? and The Stooges?. [more about the transition from proto-punk to punk rock and neo-garage punk]