Dan Auerbach is keeping things humming along at his Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville. One of his new production projects is Onion, the fifth full-length album from the Oakland, California band Shannon & The Clams. The quartet are known for their garage punk take on 1950s and '60s pop genres like doo-wop, rockabilly, girl group, surf, and other variations of good old rock 'n' roll. Auerbach is a fine fit as producer for Shannon & The Clams (Shannon is Shannon Shaw on bass and vocals). Like the band, he loves those genres, too. But he also brings his production smarts to the proceedings, smoothing out the rough punk edges just enough to take this fun music to another level.
Here are the Top 30 new releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending March 25, 2018:
1 Belle and Sebastian- How To Solve Our Human Problems
2 The Breeders- All Nerve
3 Preoccupations- New Material
4 Superorganism- Superorganism
5 Ty Segall- Freedom's Goblin
6 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats- Tearing At The Seams
7 David Byrne- American Utopia
8 Guided By Voices- Space Gun
9 The Decemberists- I'll Be Your Girl
10 Ought- Room Inside The World
11 Shopping- The Official Body
12 Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy
13 U.S. Girls- In A Poem Unlimited
14 Tracey Thorn- Record
15 Shannon & The Clams- Onion
16 Franz Ferdinand- Always Ascending
17 Moby- Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
18 MGMT- Little Dark Age
19 Of Montreal- White is Relic/Irrealis Mood
20 Yo La Tengo- There's A Riot Going On
21 Rhye- Blood
22 Albert Hammond Jr.- Francis Trouble
23 Bettye LaVette- Things Have Changed
24 Nap Eyes- I'm Bad Now
25 Jimi Hendrix- Both Sides Of The Sky
26 S. Carey- Hundred Acres
27 Soccer Mommy- Clean
28 Anna Burch- Quit The Curse
29 Django Django- Marble Skies
30 Tune-Yards- I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
