…lo and behold, to my amazement, after Saturday’s show, I’ve now seen The Gories do their thing threefold. And each time has been better than the last, as if they’ve picked up where they left off to ...

The Gories played Bowery Ballroom on July 30th (with Chickensnake and The Revelons), one of three shows scheduled for the reunited Detroit threesome. Keith Marlowe’s viewpoint of the show, with more ...

No history of American garage rock is complete without The Gories. Hailing from Detroit—a city with a storied tradition of feral, primal rock ‘n’ roll, from the MC5 to the Stooges to Funkadelic—the ...

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 ...

When the Gories emerged in Detroit in 1986, on the tail end of the decade’s garage-rock revival, they seemed to have learned from every mistake made by other bands. They produced a sort of platonic ...

Well, the Thanksgiving eat-a-thon has come and gone, which leaves us with the final stretch of classes and final projects before sweet Winter Break is here. We’ve got tons of excellent holiday ...

Mick Collins is the king of garage rock. It would be hard to dispute or prove otherwise. In the late 1980s, in Detroit, Collins founded legendary trio the Gories; the two-guitar-and-drums band shucked ...

Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses an archival live record from the Gories, the latest from Cheap Time, a new ...

Hooker’s minimalist, sweaty backyard blues are like a guidebook of Detroit’s forgotten historical and sonic funky charms. In the hands of the Gories, its primal force is amplified and gives the kids ...

In the late 80s and early 90s, the scuzzed-out Detroit trio the Gories, along with peers like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the New Bomb Turks, reinvented classic 60s garage rock as something ...

2009 will go down as the year of the reunion tour. With the recent succession of has-beens like Limp Bizkit, No Doubt, and Blink-182 taking to the stage in order to cash in on the nostalgia of aging ...

TWO JUNKY, out-of-tune guitars knife-fight over a flourish-free, cavewoman stomp of a drumbeat. Two voices—one punky and snotty, the other a sunglasses-at-night, gutbucket bluesman, a Howlin' Wolf ...