“Garage-rock inhabits a narrow geography. It's easy to picture modern bands like The Strokes and The Libertines swarming the calcareous canyons of the commercial-industrial complex, but shift to just 15 minutes outside any major metropolis, in the surrounding slums or white collar suburbs, and their swashbuckling riffage doesn't quite pack the same punch. Out in heartland Iowa, or the New Mexico de”
