How to Use garage band in a Sentence

garage band

noun
  • Maybe your dad isn't ready to leave his garage band playing days in the past.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 21 Apr. 2022
  • From Cattle ranch to garage band Clyne was born in 1968.
    Ed Masley, azcentral, 28 June 2019
  • Who wanted though to still have that rock and roll, garage band kind of feel.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Instead of a cult, Metheny joined a pre-teen garage band, The Beat Bombs.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • While other kids played video games and started garage bands, Evan fell in love with the craft of brewing beer.
    Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Singer for beloved garage band released the legendary album 'Teenage Head' in 1971.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Newer Fall Out Boy fans may not prefer the grungier, more garage band-like sound that the band had in their early days.
    Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Live music from the Gin Blossoms and Montell Jordan, rather than the first garage band willing to play four hours for $150.
    Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Van Morrison has been playing Dylan songs going all the way back to his days as the frontman of the Sixties garage band Them.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
  • Omar spent his youth at backyard punk shows and is the bass player for Los Boulevards, a surf-rock garage band that performs in lucha libre masks.
    Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Joe also played the drums for a local garage band of would-be rockers, Duke and the Esoterics, which for the past 30 years, has performed at many fundraisers.
    courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Some had played in garage bands, while others had never touched an instrument before.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Weezer, Weezer, Weezer – the garage band gods, the dorkiest of rock heroes, the quartet of starry-eyed kids armed with electric guitars and a dream.
    Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2023
  • As the transition effort cratered, McGahn played one last gig that night with his garage band at a bar in Philadelphia.
    Walter M. Shaub Jr., The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
  • Joy meets Maddie’s brother Jim (John Hawkes), something of a shut-in, and the two eventually form a garage band together.
    Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The movie opens with an all-girl, multiracial garage band coping with Gwen Stacy’s (Hailee Steinfeld) malaise and ends with a team as powerful as rock stars ready to save the world.
    Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Bands performed throughout the festival, including some well known groups and some garage bands, including children from the School of Rock.
    Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But as a teen living in DeSoto, Horn gravitated toward rock, wore punk-style bracelets, and sang Nirvana covers in a garage band.
    Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Detroit mom of two shakes up her routine by forming a garage band with her unemployed neighbor, her mail carrier and her daughter's boyfriend.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Good-looking neo-garage bands named some variation of the Plural Nouns proliferated for years.
    Franz Nicolay, Slate Magazine, 23 June 2017
  • Today the album is a lodestar for every messy, moody, mascara-wearing social-outcast garage band that fancies itself a bit Downtown.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In terms of users, Cockroach Labs says that its technology is used by everyone from garage band startups to large corporations.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Starting as a garage band called Suburban Nightmare in the mid-’80s, The Dwarves gained notoriety for their violent, sometimes-bloody shows, as well as button-pushing songs.
    Gen Handley, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The extremely SoCal video — featuring garage band practice, drives with the top down, skate sessions and house parties — finds the singer fantasizing about his bandmate’s girlfriend, played by D’Amelio.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Originally, George Carlin's character travels back in time to make sure that Bill and Ted's garage band goes on to create world-changing philosophical change.
    Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • From aspiring classical pianists to garage band enthusiasts, most musicians know the pain of wanting to play a great piece, but not having the necessary backup.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2014
  • Today, the journey from garage band to musical institution is very different, with the ability to self-produce music and to get noticed on social media without ever leaving the garage.
    Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The music industry worried that AB5 might mean that every time someone recorded an album or gave a concert — even the proverbial garage band — each backup vocalist, engineer, band member and more would need to be an employee.
    Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Plus, the songwriters had to keep the tune deliberately simple and not musically proficient beyond an amateur garage band’s skills.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Yet the vast collection—with its accompanying liner notes, interviews, detailed timeline and discography, and hundreds of photos—suggests a group that, from the beginning, was more than a shambling garage band that had stumbled out of CBGB.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022

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