| Groovin in the Summer of Oh Six
We all do it. Some of us do it with a bit of a bounce, while others sort of coolly glide, feet barely touching down. But everyone grooves, and everyone has music that just get ‘em to grooving. Here are some different ways to get your groove on for the summer of 2006. Lou Rawls
The Best of the Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
Capitol Jazz
2006 This twenty-song anthology delivers the definitive overview of Lou Rawls' vocal accomplishments before his late-1970s run with Gamble & Huff for Philly International records popped him into the mainstream. Like so many other blues-influenced pop singers, Rawls begins right from The Source, the family church, through the opening “Motherless Child," from The Soul Stirring Gospel Sound of the Pilgrim Travelers Featuring Lou Rawls (1962).
Exterminate the Humans
There are two common misconceptions about Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the East Bay's best Dadaist death rock band. "The first is that we rehearse all the time," says guitarist Nils Frykdahl. "The second is that we want some LSD." Neither turns out to be true. The cult quintet spends a recent Wednesday evening in its rehearsal space off San Pablo Avenue autographing 111 black and white publicity photos. After two years of touring the country in a 1968 bus straight out of Almost Famous, and stopping more than two hundred times, the mysterious crew decided to catch its collective breath in 2006. The band took a six-month break that ended with two rare, spectacular shows at the Oakland Metro on July 7 and 8. Over the next couple of months, Sleepytime's musicians plan to finish recording a fourth album while a new, business-minded label called the End rereleases their critically lauded 2001 debut Grand Opening and Closing with two extra new songs.
8. The Relentless Quest Of Paul Smith
At first listen you'd be forgiven for thinking that Beyond Reasonable Doubt are the latest in a long line of U.S. imports to hit these shores. Naturally, they hail from that well known American state: Surrey. Anyone with a passing interest in the fortunes of Punk and Hardcore will be more than familiar with the kind of sound that BRD bring to the table. Despite claiming a massive Green Day influence, the band in fact sound as if they've come straight from the rosters of either Fat Wreck or Epitaph. Indeed if you were blindfolded and forced to guess, it might even cross your mind that this is the new album from Bad Religion. So, an American influence is very much in evidence, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps the major give away though, is the focus of the lyrics.
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