Garage Rock

Garage rock (and its successor Garage Rock revival) is a sub-genre of rock that originated in the early 1960's and comes from the perception that many performers of this genre of music were young and amateurish, and often rehearsed in a family garage. This connotation also evokes a suburban, middle-class setting. It is, of course, inaccurate to conclude that all garage bands met this demographic dynamic. Some bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, some were from rural or urban areas, while others were composed of professional musicians in their twenties.