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…

This bluesy garage rock unit was formed by guitarist/vocalist and qualified doctor Johnny Walker (b. Johnny Wirick, USA) and drummer Ben Swank (b. Ben Smith, USA). Coming from Maumee, Ohio, USA, the pair first met as members of a previous band, Henry…

The Year 2000 was a good one to be a garage rock band in Detroit The White Stripes were beginning their assault on the mainstream and there were a bunch of like-minded groups kicking out the rock It seemed like everyone was starting bands and putting…

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…

Amidst a field overcrowded with teen-pop and nu-metal, Detroit's White Stripes emerged at the tail end of the 1990s as a new hope for gutsy, no-frills rock & roll. Their doggedly minimalist sound--just one guitar and a drum kit--heralded a return to …

The new millennium saw an underground musical movement erupt from Detroit, Michigan, USA, as bands such as the White Stripes, Bantam Rooster, Soledad Brothers, and the Von Bondies followed in the same high energy, minimalist punk rock direction that …

Youve got to hand it to Jeffrey Evans Aside from all the music hes made over the years hes credited with introducing the White Stripes to Sympathy for the Record Industry and hence to the world Then he did the same for Mr Airplane Man Although the Bo…

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…

Who knew that just a few years after Jon Spencer Blues Explosion first burst on the scene, that they would spawn countless similarly styled offspring, such as the White Stripes, Von Bondies, and Bantam Rooster? The latter outfit was formed by Tom Jac…

The Paybacks came swaggering out of Detroit at the turn of the century when like-minded artists like the White Stripes and the Go were creeping into the rock mainstream with a similar sound Consisting of singerguitarist Wendy Case drummer Pat Pantan…

The early twenty-first century has seen Europe spawn countless bands that would have fit perfectly in Detroit's high energy garage rock scene of the late 60s, as evidenced by the emergence of groups such as Sweden's the Hives, and to a lesser degree,…

It might seem surprising to folks who only learned of the Detroit garage rock revival when the White Stripes Fell in Love with a Girl hit mainstream radio in 2002 but the local guitar band scene has lasted long enough that there are now second- and e…

From Detroit, Michigan, USA, Electric Six have performed under various names since their inception as the Wildbunch (a moniker the band still prefer) in 1996. Formed by Jackson Pounder (vocals) and Martin M (drums), the Wildbunch made their recording…

When the garage rock revival hit big in the U.S. in 2001 with the Strokes, White Stripes, et al., it came as a surprise to many fans that a number of Swedish bands had been doing it longer and arguably better. Of these, the hyperactive Hives broke th…

The first signing to Jack White's label, Third Man Records, the Whirlwind Heat sound a bit like White's band (garage rock favourites the White Stripes), but with a Moog synthesizer taking the place of guitar. Featuring members David Swanson (vocals/s…

A five-piece from Cincinnati the Greenhornes take the best elements of 60s RB blues and British Invasion and distill it down to their own brand of Midwestern garage rock Their original compositions consistently come across with a level of songwriting…

Despite coming from Umeå, Sweden, the (International) Noise Conspiracy specializes in a melodic punk style usually associated with the UK and USA. The band's leader, vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, first learned the tricks of his trade as part of the 90s pun…