The Gories rip it up at Punk Rock Raduno 7

Here's Peggy O'Neill, Mick Collins and Danny Kroha closing Punk Rock Raduno 7 last year in Bergamo, Italy. 

Happy Birthday Danny Kroha!

Celebrating Danny Kroha's birthday with an interview conduced by Mr. Fine Wine and some footage of The Gories and more. 

Happy Birthday Mick Collins!

Raising a glass to Mick Collins with a few Dirtbombs performances, starting with one from July introduced by John Waters! 

Happy Birthday Mick Collins!

Celebrating Mick Collins birthday with his performance of "Kick Out The Jams" with The MC5's Wayne Kramer.

Wolfmanhattan Project preview new album with apocalyptic "Summer Forever"

"Summer Forever" is the title track off the new Wolfmanhattan Project album from Mick Collins, Kid Congo and Bob Bert. 

Whaddya mean you don't know The Wolfmanhattan Project

Bob Bert, Mick Collins and Kid Congo present their Wolfmanhattan Project at Brooklyn's Market Hotel tonight. 

Happy Birthday Mick Collins!

Adult. covers Detroit techno classic

  Shari Vari (ANumberOfNames) by Adult.

Shari Vari on The Scene 1981

Shari Vari by The Dirtbombs

Coffey's on at the Horseshoe Friday

Unless you happened to be watching Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and saw Dennis Coffey knocking out nasty guitar licks with the Roots, the well-dressed bearded bloke could easily be mistaken for a real estate agent or financial advisor. However, if you've heard the Temptations' Ball Of Confusion, Cloud Nine or Edwin Starr's War, you're already familiar with the scorching wah-wah work that is Coffey's signature guitar sound. Part of Motown's superb studio crew known as the "Funk Brothers," Coffey was the first-call guitarist in the late 60s whenever one of Berry Gordy Jr.'s recording projects needed a heavy guitar boost.
Beyond Coffey's psychedelicized sessions for the Temptations, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes and Edwin Starr, the go-to guitar great can also be heard on unforgettable tracks like Freda Payne's Band Of Gold, The Spinners' It's A Shame, Chairman of the Board's Give Me Just A Little More Time, Johnny Taylor's Who's Makin' Love, Honey Cone's Want Ads, The Sylvers' Boogie Fever, CJ & Co's Devil's Gun, Darrell Banks' Open The Door To Your Heart, J.J. Barnes' Real Humdinger, Little Carl Carlton's Competition Ain't Nothin' and many others. That's not even counting the amazing instrumental joints he cut under his own name like the million-selling breakbeat stunner Scorpio, the hard-hustlin' soundtrack to Black Belt Jones and the super dope Hair and Thangs album. Check out the podcast Constellations – The A To Z of Dennis Coffey below put together by Detroit's DJ House Shoes.

Coffey's new self-titled studio album which the UK-based Strut label released at the end of April picks up where he left off with 1969's Hair And Thangs, updating a well-chosen selection of Detroit productions past  with an impressive cast of guest collaborators.
Fanny Franklin from Cali-funk combo Orgone sweetly overhauls Wilson Pickett’s psych-soul gem Don’t Knock My Love and no doubt even Steve Mancha would approve of the way Lisa Kekaula of The Bellrays belts out 100 Proof Aged In Soul's house-wrecker Somebody’s Been Sleeping In My Bed. Coffey's fellow D-Towners Mick Collins (of the Dirtbombs) and the Detroit Cobras’ Rachel Nagy show up for darkly demented swing at Funkadelic’s I Bet You and the largely overlooked Rodriguez number Only Good For Conversation is competently handled by Scots upstart Paolo Nutini. Even Stones Throw's resident crooner Mayer Hawthowrne doesn't do too badly with Parliament's All Your Goodies Are Gone.
What impressed me most were the surprisingly solid new compositions like Miss Millie built around a pounding groove laid down by Milwaukee's Kings Go Forth and the mighty instrumentals which recall Coffey's work with the Detroit Guitar Band, namely the opener 7th Galaxy,  Knockabout and the cosmically twerked Space Traveller.
There's no telling who might be joining Coffey on stage for his Toronto return slated for the Horseshoe on Friday (July 8) but it's sure to be a memorable event. Tickets are $22.50 advance or $25 at the door but you can win one of two free pairs we're giving away if you're among the first to tell us Coffey's astrological sign. Email your answer on the double to the theperlichpost@gmail..com with "Dennis Coffey Contest" in the subject line. Only the winners will be notified.
NOTE: Winners must be 19 or over and present valid ID when picking up their tickets in person at the Horseshoe on Friday.

When the promotion-savvy folks at Strut come up with the concept of putting together a Dennis Coffey retrospective refresher to show off his considerable contributions to the world of soul, funk, and hip-hop as a prelude to his impressive comeback album, they wisely went to Detroit's House Shoes. Sometimes called "Detroit's musical ambassador," House Shoes is not only well aware of Coffey's extensive back catalogue and how it has been used by hip hop producers,  he also happens to be a better than average mix DJ. On the resulting Constellations - The A to Z of Dennis Coffey, House Shoes covers all the bases, moving from the psychedelic b-boy soul of Coffey's 70's solo material, to the classic recordings he played on as a session ace, the joints sampled for hip-hop tracks, and he even snuck in a couple of pieces (*) from the new album which fit in seamlessly alongside with his old school faves.

Constellations – The A To Z of Dennis Coffey

01. Scorpio Intro - (ft. Dennis Coffey, Jazzy Jeff, Jake One, & Q-Tip)
02. LL Cool J - Jinglin' Baby
03. Dennis Coffey - Main Theme (Black Belt Jones OST)
04. Dennis Coffey - 7th Galaxy *
05. Dennis Coffey - Ride Sally Ride
06. The Temptations - Cloud Nine
07. Rodriguez - Sugar Man
08. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
09. Dennis Coffey - Garden Of The Moon
10. The Spinners - It's A Shame
11. Dennis Coffey - Never Can Say Goodbye
12. Dennis Coffey - Whole Lotta Love
13. Diamond D - No Wonduh
14. Isley Brothers / Dennis Coffey & Lyman Woodward - It's Your Thing
15. The Floaters - Float On
16. The Dramatics - In The Rain
17. The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
18. Dennis Coffey feat. Mick Collins (Dirtbombs) & Rachel Nagy (Detroit Cobras) - I Bet You *
19. Edwin Starr - Easin' In (Hell Up In Harlem) / Digable Planets (Nickle Bags)
20. The Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You
21. The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes
22. Dennis Coffey feat. Mayer Hawthorne - All Your Goodies Are Gone *
23. Outro

  Constellations - The A to Z of Dennis Coffey: A Mix By House Shoes by Strut

The Dirtbombs take on techno

Garage guru Mick Collins has always had broad musical interests which sometimes show up in his intriguing cover choices. But the guitar-slinging founder of The Gories, The Blacktops, The Screws, King Sound Quartet, The Voltaire Brothers and The Dirtbombs has never before attempted anything quite so subversively bold as Party Store (In The Red) – a concept album reworking classic Detroit techno and electro joints in a garage-rock style.

What might initially appear to be a ridiculously wrongheaded notion or a nutty pisstake, The Dirtbombs' Party Store is actually an inspired follow-up to 2001's Ultraglide In Black album. Only instead of updating their favourite 60s and 70s soul and R&B tunes from the Motor City and beyond as they did a decade ago, Collins and crew are now blasting through D-town's post-industrial buzz of the 80s and early 90s. It all works brilliantly. The funky melodic electro-minimalism of Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig – a perfectly cold and bleak soundtrack for a decaying urban metropolis – turns out to be surprisingly well suited to the brutally de-tuned 'n' distorted bashing favoured by the Dirtbombs.
They approach the material with just the right balance of respect and irreverence so it never seems like they're trying on an ill-fitting suit for size. And Collins clearly knows his shit judging by Party Store's exceptionally well-chosen repertoire which includes a selection of global dancefloor destroyers such as Inner City's Good Life, Rhythim Is Rhythim's Strings Of Life and Innerzone Orchestra's Bug In The Bassbin (featuring a cool cameo by composer Carl Craig) as well as a couple of cult curios like the sought-after 1981 b-boy banger Sharevari by A Number Of Names, Cybotron's Alleys Of Your Mind and the DJ Rolando jam Jaguar 1.
Even though the synthesizer use on the album is limited to selective whirring, gurgles and blurps, the Dirtbombs may very well alienate a certain blinkered portion of their garage-loving fanbase with Party Store. However, the bold move will likely make up for any losses with loads of new converts from around the world delighted by the Dirtbombs' boisterously rough-cut update of Detroit's future past. If the club crowd catches on, the album could be the Dirtbombs biggest seller ever. Adventurous DJs and vinyl junkies will be pleased to know that the 9-track Party Store disc is also available as a 3 LP package with a free download coupon currently selling for the price of a single LP.
Can't wait to hear what the Dirtbombs do with the music of J. Dilla, Moodymann, Black Milk and the Underground Resistance collective in 2021.

Sharevari by The Dirtbombs     


Sharevari by A Number Of Names on "The Scene" 1982