Information about the genre Garage rock.

Garage Rock is a style of pop music. It is an extremely energetic style of music which is seen as a separate genre to rock and roll. This genre first started in the United States and Canada (which is where JPNS GRLS are from.) It gained recognition in the early 1970's where the term was used to describe young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, though many were professional. It is often characterized by sometimes aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics.  It is sometimes called "garage punk," "protopunk" or "'60s punk" to distinguish it from the more commonly known punk rock of the mid and late-1970s. Some bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, others were from rural or urban areas or were composed of professional musicians in their twenties. The earliest attested use of the term "garage band" dates from March 1971, in a review by John Mendelsohn in Rolling Stone; later the same year, the term was also used by Lenny Kaye in the same magazine. Typical themes revolved around the traumas of high school life and songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. The themes contained nasal, growled, or shouted vocals, sometimes punctuated by shrieks or screams at climactic moments of release.Occasionally, the tempo would be sped up in certain, usually instrumental, passages sometimes referred to as a "rave-ups." Thousands of garage bands were extant in the US and Canada and hundreds produced regional hits, in an era where it was not uncommon for a band to participate in a battle of the bands or cut a record and have it receive airplay on the local AM radio station.