Fresh Friday, Music to Get You Through the Weekend: Locksley

There is currently a stack of cds in my room waiting for me to listen to them. Everything from punk to neo-punk. I look at this stack and cringe. When in the hell will I get the time to listen to all of this?

A few days ago, I picked up one of those cds and popped it in the player to listen as I changed to go out that night. Only a few notes into the first song, I turned back to my stereo in surprise. This was good. Not merely passable good, but GOOD GOOD. A glance through the sycophantic notes that came with the cd came across the words, Not signed. This band is this good and is not signed? Crimeny.

Made up of four boys from Brooklyn via Wisconsin, Locksley’s music is Beatles Please Please Me and Revolver combined. It takes the best of the British invasion from of the 60's and 70's and combines them into something fresh, fun and new. Locksley’s sound is unexpected, unlike any band I have seen in recent memory, and incredibly catchy. So catchy in fact that I have had ‘Don’t make me wait’ in my head now for a full 24 hours. This is a band to get on board with now before they get all popular and you have to pretend to be 'so over it.'

Tour: Oct 27 2006 9:30PM Piano's NY, NY
Oct 31 2006 11:00PM Fontana's New York, NY <--- I'll be there! Nov 1 2006 8:00PM Axis (w/ The Rapture) Boston, MA Nov 2 2006 8:00PM Club Soda (w/The Rapture) Montreal, Quebec Nov 4 2006 10:45PM Santa Fe Cafe College Park, MD <---Matt and I went to college there together! College Park people, GO! Nov 10 2006 11:00PM Baggot Inn New York, NY Nov 11 2006 11:15PM Paradise Lounge Boston, MA MySpace/Website

Download: 'Why Not Me'