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In part due to the Gories working tirelessly over a few years during the eighties and into the nineties, a garage renaissance reached the punk record collecting public at some point. And throughout the nineties, countless bands plundered punk while combining it with the most revved up and irreverent conception of the genre up until that point.

There’s no way to properly document each and every group working with these tropes during that very specific time period. But groups like the Oblivians and the New Bomb Turks, their collective combination of sixties’ garage swagger and punk’s gap toothed sneer, severed as new templates.