List of geek rock artists

This is a list of artists who are known for producing music in the geek rock genre.

I Fight Dragons performing at Martyrs', Chicago, in 2009
Harry and the Potters performing in June 2007
They Might Be Giants performing in October 2010
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1980s and earlier

1990s

2000s

2010s
gollark: No, lambda calculus is just working on abstract lambda thingies, it's a simple model for computation which is also kind of useless.
gollark: Meanwhile, GPT-3, OpenAI's latest GPT text generation thing, has *175 billion* parameters and uses, what, tens of gigabytes of memory?
gollark: No, lambda calculus is a relatively simple model you can understand fairly easily.
gollark: And with neural networks, you don't actually know *how* the network does its job, just that you feed in pixels and somehow get classification data out.
gollark: There is still not, as far as I know, an approach to detect what an object is other than just training neural networks on the task.

References
  1. Weisbard, Eric (December 2000). "Geek Love". SPIN. pp. 158–162.
  2. Cantrell, Paul Alexander (2014). "'A Very Subtle Joke': T. S. Eliot, J. D. Salinger and the Puer Aeternus in God Shuffled His Feet". In DiBlasi, Alex; Willis, Victoria (eds.). Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 79–98. ISBN 9781442229761.
  3. Chaney, Keidra (January–February 2015). "The Evolution of Nerd Rock". Uncanny. No. 2. pp. 129–133.
  4. Freed, Nick; Salgado, Christina (March 14, 2014). "The Greatest Nerd Rock Records of All Time". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  5. Topić, Martina (2014). "Taste, Kitsch, and Geek Rock: A Multiple Modernities View". In DiBlasi, Alex; Willis, Victoria (eds.). Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 25–44. ISBN 9781442229761.
  6. McDonald, Christopher J. (2009). Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class. Indiana University Press. p. 182. ISBN 9780253004048. In questionnaires, several fans openly admit that Rush produces 'geek rock' with a significant constituency who might be described in such terms.
  7. Blistein, Jon (November 16, 2012). "They Might Be Giants Q&A". Billboard.
  8. Bell, Mike (April 24, 2013). "Weird Al Yankovic leads parade of geek music at Calgary's Comic Expo". Calgary Herald. Not so with Weird Al Yankovic, the true, unabashed and remarkably enduring king of a now growing genre of nerd rock — a man who’s had a pretty remarkable 30-year career wearing his uncoolness on his accordion strap.
  9. Linn, John (December 11, 2008). "The Aquabats". Phoenix New Times.
  10. Peter, Taylor (2014). "'My God, What an Infantile Gesture': The Mountain Goats as Emblematic of Geek Rock's Relationship with the Authentic". In DiBlasi, Alex; Willis, Victoria (eds.). Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 147–160. ISBN 9781442229761.
  11. Fosco, Molly (January 22, 2013). "Alt-J: Making Nerd Rock Sexy". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  12. Wilkes, Neil. "Introducing Trock: Songs about 'Doctor Who'". DigitalSpy.com. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  13. Kendall, Len (February 9, 2009). "Geek Rock: I Fight Dragons". Chicago Tech Report. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  14. Mohan, Marc (January 21, 2015). "The Doubleclicks kick off a busy 2015, including a pair of weekend Portland shows: The Week in Geek". Oregon Live. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  15. Selinker, Mike (2013-01-08). "Geek Love: Kirby Krackle, The Doubleclicks, and the soul of nerd rock". Wired. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  16. Barron, Joe (September 26, 2014). "The Doubleclicks' nerd rock in Ardmore Oct. 5". Ticket Entertainment.
  17. "How a Fully DIY Band Has Booked Over 500 Shows in 16 Countries: Advice From Double Experience".
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