By the way, those embedded players in your post above don't seem to be working... at least not in my browser.

Hell yeah, it's trendy as fuck right now. And it's really annoying. I keep hearing or reading of "garage" sounds or influences in bands that sound NOTHING like garage rock (or "garage punk," for that matter). I think it's just the state of the music scene right now. Bands like the Hives, White Stripes, and Black Lips (amongst others) really put "garage rock" in the mainstream, and then you had labels like Vice Records jump on the bandwagon with lots of money to promote it with the help of corporations like Scion, and BOOM. It's the "next big thing." Problem is, too many of these bands are just plain BORING, and I bet most of 'em wouldn't know a Sonics or Oblivians tune if it hit 'em on their heads.

Oh, and by the way, I never could stand the Strokes. As far as I'm concerned they were the "Pearl Jam of Garage Rock," a fabricated band, totally fake, with crappy music that might be OK when compared with the rest of mainstream "rock music," but pales in comparison to most of the real garage rock/punk out there.

I see lot of bands out there claiming themself playing rock/pop with garage influence, the only problem is they don't sound garage/psych/rocknroll at all.

There are few "garage" bands playing at Iceland Airwaves this year (the biggest music festival in Iceland) Let's check them out..

Here we have this band called Weapons

Weapons is an indie/rock band from Reykjavík Iceland. Their music could be described as melody driven in your face indie rock influenced by good-feel indie, old-school garage and surf pop music.

ok lets take a look at one of their song. 

http://www.gogoyoko.com/song/3169

Yeah I hear Strokes, Maybe some Franz Ferdinand.. Surf Garage old school? 

Here is some old full grown band from Finland called 22 Pistepirkko. Very cool they're from Finland, hardcore people from Finland.

22-Pistepirkko are easily one of Northern Europe's most eccentric and evocative rock acts. The band's sound and diabolical dynamic is a luminous, surreal, guitar-based electro-pop and proto-garage-psychedelia blended with elements of acoustic folk and spaced-out bohemian blues-rock.

I get very exited when some band is coming playing music like this.. Wait they got a sound trial here. 

http://www.gogoyoko.com/song/228788

hmmm..????????????? What?

It's like they want to be more unique that they are. I just hear some cheasy advertisement pop going on here..

So what do you think is Garage trend? Is it "on" right know with the hip people? So what about these bands who are playing garage rock? What should we call them?

Also added "Fucked Up" and "The Togas"...!

oh thanks for adding that link Recordgrooves. 

Oops Kooper,I figured everyone knew about it. (Plus you know I'm very low-tech..! lol)

Get it here:

Bruise Cruise 2012

Um, where is it? Who's playing? You might wanna include a little more info... links and whatnot.

Anyone going? Just reserved cabins with a few of my girlfriends ..from Cleveland. Great line up of bands and activities. Super excited for this trip. This will definitely give me something to look forward to over the winter.

delux or standard

Luke Greenwood said:

i have a 59 3p airline in white and it is a very good guitar

dying slowly said:

true i do like the 3p airline

Sonic Reverends said:

For that kind of money, you could go for a walk on Denmark Street in London and search for a nice vintage guitar. :) Honestly, as far as Fenders go, nothing beats a Standard Telecaster. That bridge pickup will give you fantastic tone. But you could also consider other guitars: Danelectro (dirt-cheap, great looks and wonderful tone), Eastwood (specially the Airline reissues), Italia Guitars and even Epiphone. And don't forget that a huge part of your sound comes from your amp.

i have a 59 3p airline in white and it is a very good guitar

dying slowly said:

true i do like the 3p airline

Sonic Reverends said:

For that kind of money, you could go for a walk on Denmark Street in London and search for a nice vintage guitar. :) Honestly, as far as Fenders go, nothing beats a Standard Telecaster. That bridge pickup will give you fantastic tone. But you could also consider other guitars: Danelectro (dirt-cheap, great looks and wonderful tone), Eastwood (specially the Airline reissues), Italia Guitars and even Epiphone. And don't forget that a huge part of your sound comes from your amp.

true i do like the 3p airline

Sonic Reverends said:

For that kind of money, you could go for a walk on Denmark Street in London and search for a nice vintage guitar. :) Honestly, as far as Fenders go, nothing beats a Standard Telecaster. That bridge pickup will give you fantastic tone. But you could also consider other guitars: Danelectro (dirt-cheap, great looks and wonderful tone), Eastwood (specially the Airline reissues), Italia Guitars and even Epiphone. And don't forget that a huge part of your sound comes from your amp.

a domino guitar 

it depends of how YOU wanna sound and not who you wanna sound like.

For that kind of money, you could go for a walk on Denmark Street in London and search for a nice vintage guitar. :) Honestly, as far as Fenders go, nothing beats a Standard Telecaster. That bridge pickup will give you fantastic tone. But you could also consider other guitars: Danelectro (dirt-cheap, great looks and wonderful tone), Eastwood (specially the Airline reissues), Italia Guitars and even Epiphone. And don't forget that a huge part of your sound comes from your amp.

im 14 and i would like a new guitar for goth infused garage punk ,influences include the gories ,the mummies ,the outsiders ,the sonics ,the horrrors ,the strokes and the standells

my choice is beetween

fender standerd tele for  £409

fender 65 mustang £702

fender 62 jaguar beetween £700-1500

or phantom guitar works vox phantom riessue about £650 plus vat ,import tax and shipping

those sound quite good

Coloursound Tonebender is my fave. They are hard to find though, and quite expensive.That is what we used in The Fuzztones.

maybe BRMC can help your problem :)

Sonics

thee Oh Sees

Chain and the Gang

Lucrecia Dalt

les Hoquets

Adamo

Baby Fire and Keiki

I saw the Jetty Boys not too long ago.

Doctor Ross and Juke Boy Bonner are good, though I dont think they play drums

Ty Segall did some cool one man band shows too

Hi Sleazy!

 I'm so glad to hear it!!! I'll do a search online to see if I can view some of the art she's doing.

Luv,

Zane
sleazy said:

Niagara remains kick ass :):):)

Hi K K,

 Thanks so much for the lowdown on the Detroit area and Bookies. In the 80's the company I worked for in Pittsburgh had me working in our offices on John R Road ( I think that's the name of the road??) and I stayed at a motel in Sterling Heights for a really long time!! I love Detroit but have only been there since to see bands and take the occasional jaunt into Canada.

  I used to live/hang out in El Aye in the 70's and 80's K.K. and Trudi were part of the crowd that made up a really cool scene then. By the time the 90's came along it was kinda hard to find anything worthwhile to really bother with so I stopped going to El Aye. I'm glad I was there when it was not just "happenin" but actully FUN.

 So tell me more about the bands you play in?

Luv,

Zane

I know the comic that made that video. We all thought it was super funny. Truth is though, there is so much to do here and so much going on.. in the music and art scenes here... there are not enough days in the week. Not to mention the cost of living and how accessible everything is. It's awesome here. All the touring bands who play here love it too. I can't stand when people bag on Cleveland. It's so completely underrated. I hope it stays that way .. I also love how real and unpretentious our music scene is.

Cleveland is great. For many reasons.

Whatever, trashman. :-P