Remember when the Gories stunned Detroit in the late ’80s? No? Well, you’re not the only one. Worry not, true believers: Striking in a new direction from the Gories’ minimalist rhythm section — which ...

Detroit garage rock vets The Dirtbombs are into high concepts. Their last album, 2011’s Party Store, brilliantly put their spin on Detroit techno classics from Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Band ...

Detroit garage-rock posse the Dirtbombs have been doing their thing since 1992 and, as the story goes, have been promising an album’s worth of bubblegum tunes for a decade. Of course, the thought of ...

The Dirtbombs have always liked playing covers. (In 2001, they did a whole album of them: Ultraglide in Black was a lovingly rowdy set of soul and funk tunes, done over in fuzzy garage-rock style.) ...

Detroit is the city that gave us Motown and the Stooges, Bob Seger and Strings Of Life, black funk bands mainlining psychedelic rock (Funkadelic), white rock bands spouting radical black politics (MC5 ...

In late-1980s Detroit, the Gories were just one of Mick Collins's musical projects. Now, the British music press are claiming them as the biggest influence on Detroit's resurgent garage-rock scene.

Never purely a "garage band," even though they hail from the genre Valhalla of Detroit and feature Mick Collins, former frontman of Motor City crud-punk pioneers the Gories, the Dirtbombs are students ...

Mick Collins has always seemed a little resentful of his rock ‘n’ roll hero status. As the Dirtbombs’ frontman and member of forefront garage-ists the Gories, Collins has found himself repeatedly ...

Detroit garage-punk lifers the Dirtbombs proved a long time ago that they're willing to try just about anything for an album at a time; after all, they've already devoted entire LPs to covers of both ...

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If you’re wondering what Mick Collins — founder of venerable Detroit rockers the Dirtbombs — thinks of trendy garage rock, check the liner notes of the most recent ‘Bombs compilation, If You Don’t ...

There's a point at which bravery tips over into stupidity and, for the Dirtbombs, that point comes on the sixth track of Party Store, the garage band's fond tribute to the techno forefathers of their ...