How to Use garage band in a Sentence
garage band
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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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