List of garage rock bands

This following is a list of garage rock bands. It is by no means exhaustive.

Original mid-1960s garage bands (primarily active from 1963-1967)

• 13th Floor Elevators
• The Barbarians
• The Beau Brummels
• The Birdwatchers
• Blues Magoos
• The Brigands
• The Brogues
• The D-Men
• The Castaways
• The Chocolate Watch Band
• The Choir
• Count Five
• The Dovers
• The Electric Prunes
• The Fifth Estate (band)
• The Five Americans
• The Gants
• The Gestures
• The Golliwogs
• The Haunted
• The Hombres
• The Human Beinz
• The Human Expression
• The Kingsmen
• The Kinks
• The Knickerbockers
• The Leaves
• The Litter
• The Luv'd Ones
• The Magic Mushrooms
• Michael and the Messengers
• The Mods
• The Monks
• Mouse and the Traps
• The Moving Sidewalks
• Mr. Lucky and the Gamblers
• The Music Explosion
• The Music Machine
• Nobody's Children
• The Outsiders
• The Other Half
• Paul Revere & the Raiders
• The Premiers
• Question Mark and the Mysterians
• The Remains
• Rick's Continentals
• The Rising Storm
• Richard and the Young Lions
• The Rivieras
• Los Saicos
• Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
• The Seeds
• Shadows of Knight
• Sir Douglas Quintet
• The Sonics
• The Squires
• The Standells
• The Strangeloves
• Strawberry Alarm Clock
• Syndicate of Sound
• The Third Bardo
• Tommy James & The Shondells
• The Trashmen
• The Troggs
• The Troyes
• The Ugly Ducklings
• Unrelated Segments
• The Wailers
• The Weeds

Later period and borderline garage bands (1967 to 1979)

• Johnny and the moondogs
• Amboy Dukes
• The Balloon Farm
• Blues Project
• Bubble Puppy
• Captain Beefheart
• The Charlatans
• DMZ
• The Electric Eels
• Flamin' Groovies
• The Frost
• The Lollipop Shoppe
• Love
• Lyme and Cybelle
• Max Frost and the Troopers
• MC5
• Mind Garage
• The Nazz
• New York Dolls
• The People
• Professor Plum
• The Ramones
• Sagitarius
• She
• SRC
• The Stooges
• Thor's Hammer
• The Uniques
• The Velvet Underground
• We the People

1980s, '90s, and 2000s garage revival bands

• The A-Bones
• Fury
• 22-20s
• 1313 Mockingbird Lane
• 1964
• The 5.6.7.8's
• The 69 Eyes (until Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams)
• The Bam Balams
• Bantam Rooster
• Be Your Own Pet
• The Bellrays
• Bikeride
• The Willowz
• The Black Box Revelation
• The Black Angels
• The Black Keys
• Black Lips
• Billy Childish
• The Blueskins
• Blood Red Shoes
• The Bogeymen
• The Buff Medways
• The Blue Van
• The Branded
• The Cannibals
• Capsula
• Carbon/Silicon
• The Charms
• The Chesterfield Kings
• Chikita Violenta
• The Cybermen
• The Clarks
• Clinic
• Compulsive Gamblers
• The Cramps
• The Cynics
• The D4
• The Datsuns
• Dead Moon
• December's Children
• Deja Voodoo
• The Detroit Cobras
• The Dirtbombs
• The DHDFD's
• Dublin Duck Dispensary
• Eagles of Death Metal
• Electric Frankenstein
• Thee Exciters
• The Fades
• The Flaming Sideburns
• The Fleshtones
• Flying Shuttle
• Fortune And Maltese
• Foxboro Hot Tubs
• The Frumpies
• Fuck Knights
• The Fuzztones
• Gas Huffer
• Girl Trouble
• The Gondoliers
• The Gories
• The Greenhornes
• The Gruesomes
• Guitar Wolf
• Gun Club
• Harlem
• Thee Headcoats
• Heartless Bastards
• The Hellacopters
• The Hives
• Hollywood Sinners
• The Horrors
• The Hunches
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy
• Jay Reatard
• Jet
• Jupiter 2
• The Kills
• Kings Of Leon
• The Knux
• The Larksmen
• The Last Drive
• The Libertines
• The Light Brigade
• Los Dynamite
• Los Peyotes
• Lyres
• Magneta Lane
• Mando Diao
• Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
• Thee Mighty Caesars
• The Milkshakes
• The Miracle Workers
• Mondo Topless
• The Monolators
• The Mooney Suzuki
• The Morlocks
• Moving Units
• Muck and the Mires
• Mudhoney
• The Muffs
• The Murder City Devils
• Nevada Smith
• The Mummies
• The Nomads
• Oblivians
• The Pandoras
• The Phantom Creeps
• Phantom Planet
• Plan 9
• Psychotic Reaction
• The Priscillas
• The Prisoners
• Pussy Galore
• The Reatards
• Reigning Sound
• The Revellions
• Rocket From The Crypt
• Thee Shams
• Shrubs
• Shrubs - USA
• Silent Border
• The Sick Rose
• S*M*A*S*H
• Soledad Brothers
• The Sound Explosion
• The Static Jacks
• The Stems
• The Stepford Husbands
• The Stomachmouths
• The Strokes
• The Subways
• Surf Trio
• The Things (band)
• Tokyo Police Club
• Ty Segall
• U.I.C.
• The U-Men
• The Urges
• The Vines
• The Vipers
• The Von Bondies
• The Walkmen
• The Whigs
• The White Stripes
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Young Knives
• The Young Werewolves
• The Young Veins
• The Temper Trap
• The Jim Jones Revue
• The Operation M.D.