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Mick Collins's Dirtbombs are in the Detroit mix

Having put the funk into garage punk, Motor City's Dirtbombs are taking on Detroit techno classics. Sam Richards digs a unique hometown saluteDetroit 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), black proto-punks (Death) and the world's biggest white rapper (Eminem). Against this backdrop of dynamic musical miscegenation, it was inevitable that Det...

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00:06 on January 22 2011

Mick Collins's Dirtbombs are in the Detroit mix

Guardian Music — Having put the funk into garage punk, Motor City's Dirtbombs are taking on Detroit techno classics. Sam Richards digs a unique hometown saluteDetroit is the city that gav... more info