Editing Math rock (section)

=== North American ===
[[Polvo]] of [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]] is often considered one of the household names in math rock, although the band members themselves have disavowed the categorization.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-160914-you-can-call-polvo-math-rock-but-the-numbers-just-don-t-add |title=You can call Polvo math rock, but the numbers just don't add up |author=Redford, Chad |work=[[Creative Loafing]] |access-date=October 3, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812060217/http://clatl.com/atlanta/you-can-call-polvo-math-rock-but-the-numbers-just-dont-add-up/Content?oid=1276608 |archive-date=August 12, 2011 }}</ref>

In California, [[power pop]] groups [[Game Theory (band)|Game Theory]] and [[the Loud Family]] were both led by [[Scott Miller (pop musician)|Scott Miller]], who was said to "tinker with [[pop music|pop]] the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers".<ref name=nyt1993>{{cite news |last = Schoemer |first = Karen |title = Sounds Around Town: Miller Writ Loud |date = April 2, 1993 |newspaper = [[New York Times]] |url-status = live |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/02/arts/sounds-around-town-832093.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131113235140/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/02/arts/sounds-around-town-832093.html |archive-date = November 13, 2013 }}</ref> The origin of Game Theory's name is mathematical, suggesting a "nearly mathy" sound cited as "IQ rock."<ref name=amar-mwh>{{cite journal |last = Amar |first = Erin |title = Music: What Happened? Scott Miller on 50 Years of Singles in 258 Pages |date = July 2011 |journal = Rocker Magazine |url = http://www.rockerzine.com/index.php/2013/04/scott-miller-music-what-happene |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131101183016/http://www.rockerzine.com/index.php/2013/04/scott-miller-music-what-happene |archive-date = November 1, 2013 }}</ref>

Although the Seattle [[grunge]] scene was not widely associated with math rock, some consider [[Soundgarden]] to be one of few exceptions, due to the odd time signatures found in many of their songs.<ref>{{cite web|title = WAS SOUNDGARDEN A MATH ROCK BAND? |url = https://feckingbahamas.com/focus-was-soundgarden-a-math-rock-band|website = feckingbahamas| date=July 9, 2019 |access-date = December 19, 2023}}</ref>{{relevant?|date=December 2024}}