Garage rock is a raw, mostly guitar-based style of rock music that emerged in North America in the mid-1960s. The genre owes its name to the fact that many bands rehearsed at home in garages. It combines simple song structures, distorted guitars and energetic vocals. The Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators and The Seeds are considered to have defined the style. Later revivals carried garage rock into the 2000s.