“In the garage where I belong, no one hears me sing this song,” Weezer (somewhat ironically) moaned to a generation of ’90s Gen X-ers. Rivers Cuomo’s descriptions of Ace Frehley and Peter Criss posters waiting for him to come home from high school and jam on his guitar depicted a classic American trope: the garage band. But now, instead of plugging in their amps and strumming on their guitars, many students turn on their browsers and click on a virtual guitar icon to load one of the many electronic production applications available.
