Shannon and the Clam's recently released full-length album Sleep Talk (April 2011) features twelve new songs that Kim Fowley and Lou Christie would have clawed each other's eyes out to get a hold of in the early 60's. Shannon can belt out fierce and fun like Wanda Jackson and Etta James going head to head in a competition for the last bottle of hooch in a song like "King of the Sea" and then play that heart-broken-bad-girl-tryin'-to-do-good bit that hasn't been done this well since the Tammys or the Shangri-La's in a song like "Tired of Being Bad." Cody, the band's guitarist and other main song writer/singer comes on like a crooning, hiccuping, lo-fi garage version of Buddy Holly with a touch of Marc Bolan and the aformentioned Christie. He excercises the economy and aggression of garage rock in ways a man like Christie would never have imagined but with a tenderness and vocal register you know he'd appreciate. Ian, the band's drummer, in addition to his skill at his own instrument, provides additional back ups that would make Ennio Morricone and a tribe of head hunters equally as proud.

Together, the Clams provide a secret ingredient that binds together doo-wop, early rock and R&B, girl group classics, 60's garage/psych, surf and glints of punk in a way that's hard to get across in words. You have to listen to it. You have to see it when it comes to your town. You have to be there and feel that moment when you're compelled to turn to the stranger next to you and slow dance together to a song like "Done With You" and then immediately shake every part you got that shakes to "The Cult Song." Call it what you want: Young Oldies, Garage Rock, Surf, Doo Wop, Punk, whatever, just call it on Friday night.

Sleep Talk (CD/LP/CS) on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records (2011)
I Wanna Go Home (CD/LP) on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records (2009)
Shannon and the Clams Ruin Christmas (7") on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records (2010)
Paddy's Birthday (7") on Southpaw Records (2010)
Hunk Hunt (7") on Weird Hug Records (2009) Re-released on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records (2010)
Scuffle With The Clams (CDR) Self Released (2008)

The Shangri-las, Bobby Vinton, Lou Christie, Gene Pitney, Roy Orbison, The Ronnettes, Bad Brains, the Cramps, Nobunny,Wanda Jackson, Hank Williams, OMD, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Patsy Cline, Black Lips, ? and the Mysterians, the Controllers, the Dead Milkmen, the Tammy, the Frogs, Ween, the Zombies, the Crystals, Elvis, Beach Boys, the Diamonds, Dick Dale, Phil Spector, Circle Jerks, the Oblivions, the Butthole Surfers, ELO