Consisting of three Detroit, Michigan, USA natives - Mick Collins (b. 18 December 1965), Dan Kroha (b. 30 May 1965; guitar) and Margaret Ann "Peg" O'Neill (b. 29 July 1967; drums) - lo-fi garage rock group the Gories formed in 1986, taking their name…

With a six-inch pompadour brocaded shirts rhinestone shades and a rhythmic belligerent style of piano playing Esquerita was the original Little Richard years before Mr Penniman tutti-fruttid his way to stardom Working around the Dallas-New Orleans ci…

Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade wit…

Tom Waits started out in the early 1970s as a piano-based barroom balladeer with a penchant for beat poetry and West Coast jazz. By the late '80s he had mutated into a brilliantly adventurous artist whose style suggested an amalgam of Howlin' Wolf, K…

A garage rock revival was in full force during the early twenty-first century, and it is fitting that the Dirtbombs come from a town most associated with the genre, Detroit, Michigan, USA, the same locale that spawned the Stooges, the MC5, and the mo…

The Come Ons emerged in 1999 featuring ex-Gore Gore Girl Deanne Iovan on bass vocals and vintage organ guitarist Jim Johnson and Dirtbombs drummer Patrick Pantano doing double duty behind the Come Ons kit While their dance-y soul-inspired grooves wer…

More than any other band, the Cramps are responsible for the emergence of the "psychobilly" genre, which they kickstarted at the dawn of the '80s with their brain-frying mix of hellbound rockabilly, '60s garage rock, and horror-movie/trailer-trash ca…

Chapel Hill NC-based insurgent country band Trailer Bride was led by singersongwriter Melissa Swingle a onetime member of the all-female trio Pussy Teeth Following that bands demise Swingle switched from bass to guitar began writing songs and formed …

Best known for Motown Records and its car manufacturing companies, Detroit, Michigan, USA is also famous for pumping out a vast legion of garage rock outfits over the years. While the Detroit Cobras posses a certain familiarity to their garage rock g…

The Handsome Family, essentially a husband-and-wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks, started out in the mid-1990s as part of the Chicago alt-country scene. They specialize in moody, gothic-tinged songs full of macabre, old-world imagery influenced by …

North Carolinan guitarist Link Wray began his recording career in the 1950s as a country musician, but was written into the annals of history in 1958 via his groundbreaking single "Rumble." An electric guitar instrumental featuring Wray's distorted t…

With origins dating back to the mid-80s, Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Flat Duo Jets finally made the leap to a major label in 1998. However, it was not coincidental that the label they moved to, Outpost Recordings, was overseen by highly esteemed al…

Alice Donut formed in the punk underground of New York Citys Lower East Side in 1987 eventually releasing six studio albums and one live LP recorded at CBGBs before breaking up eight years later Jello Biafra initially encouraged the group and signed …

US garage band the Oblivians comprise Jack "Oblivian" (guitar, drums, vocals), Greg "Oblivian" (guitar, drums, vocals) and Eric "Oblivian" (guitar, drums, vocals). Formed in the summer of 1993 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, they immediately wore their M…

Joy Division virtually defined the term "post-punk." They combined punk's rawness and iconoclasm with an artier sensibility that encompassed poetic lyrics, existentialism, and a dark moody mix of guitars and keyboards that was a major influence on go…

The Waco Brothers were one of many projects spearheaded by Jon Langford the frontman of the seminal British punk band the Mekons An alternative country outfit based in Langfords adopted home of Chicago the Waco Brotherss approach grew out of mid-80s …

They'll forever be known for their infamous flowerpot hats, but more importantly, Devo was one of the architects of American new wave in the late 1970s and early '80s, whether spastically deconstructing the Stones' "Satisfaction" or churning out irre…