Garage punk (fusion genre)

Garage punk is a rock music genre. It combines the sounds of garage rock, punk rock, and other forms, that started in the indie rock underground between the late 1980s and early 1990s.^[2] Bands were influenced from stripped-down 1970s punk rock^[1] and Detroit proto-punk.^[2] They used many other styles in their sound, such as power pop, 1960s girl groups and garage rock, hardcore punk, early blues and R&B, and surf rock.^[3]

Garage punk
Stylistic origins	Punk rock[1][2] garage rock proto-punk[2]
Cultural origins	1980s, United States
Other topics
Garage rock revival indie rock punk blues stoner rock[2]