If you think indie music is all mannered and whimpering, you haven’t heard the garage-rock movement that’s currently stretching from San Francisco to Atlanta. These bands have loud and crazy-catchy songs—and they’re inspiring a similarly back-to-basics rock ’n’ roll aesthetic

from their counterparts paola kudacki in the fashion world Hanni El Khatib H e plays stripped- down with crunching guitars and kiss-off cockiness, produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Essential release: Head in the Dirt (Innovative Leisure, 2013)

“I was staying at Dan’s place in Nashville. We’d wake up early and go get coffee and a sausage biscuit and then head to his studio. All the best coast instruments were in Bethany Cosentino place, so we’d just has a voice as hit ‘record.’ Nothing strong as Loretta was too weird to Lynn’s or Neko suggest, so a lot Case’s, and she of the songs took writes songs shape as we were that get stuck playing them.” in your brain and won’t leave. Essential release: Crazy for You (Mexican Summer, 2010)

“Someone once asked me if I would give them my toenail clippings. I’ve had other people steal my water bottle from the stage and then tweet at me like, ‘Oh, I licked the water bottle after.’ People are weird.” wavvEs nathan williams’s sound is part flannel, part surf punk, the result of an unlikely collaboration with producer John hill, who’s worked with rihanna and pink. Essential release: Afraid of Heights (mom + pop, 2013)

“I got that ‘No Hope’ tattoo at a shop in Atlanta. Above it is a tattoo of Future Gorilla. It’s just a gorilla from the future. I probably shouldn’t have been drinking when I got that one.”

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[opening pages] jacket $5,540 jeans $490 and boots saint laurent by Hedi slimane shirt $560 Marc Jacobs ring tiffany & co. dress victoria, victoria beckham where to buy it? go to gq.com/go /fashiondirectories Black lips clockwise from top on ian: Ian Saint Pé jacket $298 Joe Bradley Diesel Cole Alexander shirt $210 Essential release: A.P.C. Jared Swilley Los Valientes del on joe: Channeling the Mundo Nuevo jacket $845 lo-fi sloppiness (Vice, 2007) Dolce & Gabbana and excitement shirt $335 of early punk and “At a show in an of Outsiders the sing-along olive patch in on cole: communalism of Sardinia, Cole was shirt $168 Pendleton Woolen Mills much more pop- playing real bad, so on jared: minded groups, I slapped him. And shirt $275 the band is known then he smashed Band of Outsiders for its legendary his over my for additional credits, live shows. nose.”—swilley see page 141.

08-13 GQ.com 113 from left the danish band’s outsider take on a range of america’s greatest rock accomplishments, from early country to downtown new york postpunk, is tied together by wagner’s and foo’s ethereal harmonized vocals. Essential release: (columbia, 2003)

“We stand for good harmonies, we stand for really cinematic music, and we stand for—sometimes, not always, but sometimes—a good dose of dissonance.” —wagner

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114 g Q.com 08-13 hunx and his punx Seth Bogart and his rotating cast of mostly female backups infuse a hetero-defying attitude into everything from saccharine girl-group gems to turn-it-up- to-11 punk. Essential release: Street Punk (Hardly Art, 2013)

“I’m 33, but I feel like I’m a teenage girl! I’m shy and sweet. But onstage, I become this other person that I don’t have any control over, who’s wasted and crazy and slutty and really punk and dressed up insanely and doesn’t care about anything.”

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