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The Garage Sale

Richard Grabel, Creem, August 1985

NEW YORK — Garage rock is coming back. Though it may be made by bands who practice in abandoned urban industrial lofts or clammy basements rather than in suburban garages, the sound, the attitude, even the outward trappings of clothes, types of instruments, and psychedelic graphic design, have been picked up by a generation of kids looking for a do-it-yourself thrill who were barely out of diapers when the original mid-'60s garage movement had its day.

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