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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

The Rolling Stones toyed with revolution in rock, as on "Street Fighting Man," but Detroit's MC5 lived it. They were involved with the White Panther party in the late 1960s/early '70s, and the quintet became legendary for their high-energy performanc…

b. 1 November 1936, Bessemer, Alabama, but raised in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Williams has made his lasting mark in the R&B industry as a recording artist, songwriter, and producer of the first doo-wop vocal groups and then soul acts. He is noted for …

Formed in 1964, the quintet was fashioned by a Houston-based producer, Huey P. Meaux, and former teenage prodigy, Doug Sahm (b. 6 November 1941, San Antonio, Texas, USA, d. 18 November 1999, Taos, New Mexico, USA). The name, Sir Douglas Quintet, firs…

Emerging in the early years of the twenty-first century, New York City, New York, USA-based the Mooney Suzuki were one of several acts on the city's underground scene to base their sound on legendary US subversives the MC5. The band formed during the…

Formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1994, the Hellacopters fuse the raw Detroit sound of the MC5 and the Stooges with the robust musical stylings of AC/DC and Motörhead, to produce a virulent package that recalls the garage band sound of the late 60s. Th…

Formed in the mid-80s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and initially featuring Gregg Kostelich (guitar, ex-Jetsons; Prototype), Bill von Hagen (drums, ex-Puke, Cardboards, 24 Minutes), Mark Keresman (vocals) and Pam Reyner (bass, ex- Rumhounds), the…

Formed in San Diego, California, USA, in 1976, the Crawdaddys took musical inspiration from British 60s R&B, naming themselves after the club which launched the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds. Ron Silva (vocals), Jasper Zindel (guitar), Keith Fisher (k…

In 1976, the Ramones almost single-handedly invented punk rock and taught the likes of the Sex Pistols and the Clash how it was done. They combined a love of '60s pop melodies with a predilection for short, fast, loud songs and thick, chugging guitar…

Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe Gun Clubs energetic death rock but the bands career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierces reputation as an unreliable wildman and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogg…

Despite a 1948 Imperial edict banning the distribution of Ethiopian pop music Amha Eshete launched a record label Amha Records and released 103 singles and a dozen albums by Ethiopian artists between 1969 and 1975 In addition to making Ethiopian musi…