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…

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…

If Flaming Lips vocalist Wayne Coyne could take a time machine back to the late 60s, and front the Who during their early days, the resulting sound would be quite similar to the Detroit, Michigan, USA trio, the Sights. Originally formed during 1998, …

Although bands such as the White Stripes and the Hives got the majority of the credit for leading the garage rock revival in the early twenty-first century, quite a few other outfits were specializing in the same approach beforehand, such as the Detr…

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…

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 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 …

Every punk band past and present owes a great deal to the genre's forefathers, the Stooges, who made their anarchistic debut on Halloween 1967. For the next six years, singer Iggy Pop destroyed all boundaries between audience and performer--leaping i…

b. 26 May 1945, Hull, Yorkshire, England, d. 30 April 1993. This UK guitarist, was originally a member of David Bowie's backing group Hype, in February 1970. Bowie later renamed the group, the Spiders From Mars and achieved international success, wit…

While the rest of the world had its focus on Seattle during the early 90s, a smattering of New York City-based bands were building their own underground scene, influenced equally by early punk (the Ramones, Dead Boys) and glam (New York Dolls). Leadi…

Formed in 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA, from the ashes of the Descendents, All originally comprised Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), Karl Alvarez (bass) and Dave Smalley (vocals, ex-Dag Nasty). Those familiar with the Descend…

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 Detroit quartet the Waxwings have been sharpening their streamlined 60s pop since the mid-90s plucking other sounds from the Beach Boys Simon Garfunkel and the Zombies Frontmanguitarist Dean Fertita who used to play in the Motor City rock outfit…

b. Detroit, Michigan, USA. This multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter settled in Los Angeles, California during the early 90s. It was on the west coast that Benson began demoing original compositions, and through a mutual acquaintance, became good …