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
  • Who wanted though to still have that rock and roll, garage band kind of feel.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Livgren wrote it in Topeka, where the group formed as a garage band.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • After all, these aren’t teenagers playing in a garage band after school.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Some had played in garage bands, while others had never touched an instrument before.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Still, Austin continues to be a place where food trucks go brick and mortar and garage bands get their big break.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of a cult, Metheny joined a pre-teen garage band, The Beat Bombs.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Plan to become immersed in the music here, from crafting your own synth beats to playing instruments in a makeshift garage band.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
  • The other cool thing about Austin was everybody had a garage band or music project, but nobody was in a cover band.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Singer for beloved garage band released the legendary album 'Teenage Head' in 1971.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Growing up, the star watched his six older brothers play in garage bands, which in turn inspired him to use computer programs to make music of his own.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • David was in a garage band Sabrina’s dad, too, has a background in performing — though, not at the level that the chart-topping singer pursued.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But this mess, about a garage band that starts to see a hint of success and is immediately torn apart by the usual rock-movie clichés, never really gets going.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • By high school in the mid-1980s, he got involved in a slew of projects, from school orchestra to garage bands in a revolving door of rock, soul, and ska outfits.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, limited resources demanded Urich and Johns — who met through an all-mom garage band, shortly after giving birth — help champion one film first.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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