Dumm dum dum dum dummmmmm…. From somewhere in my mother's trunk full of Paul Revere and the Raiders albums comes Garage and Beat! After reading this, I feel like I’ve been living in a box. This is some weird stuff: bands I’ve never heard of playing songs I’ve never heard. Names like the Monks, the Lemon Drops, and my favorite, the Chesterfield Kings, who look like Spinal Tap could have been fashioned after them. There are bands who pose for pictures wearing suits of armor – I was not aware of this. I like it, not because I’m all into the music, but because this stuff has avoided the crosshairs of my attention, and I think a lot of others as well. There was only one band in here (aside from the ads) that I knew of, that being the Woggels. I don’t know how to say it…. Garage and Beat! will clue you in on some freaky (that’s in a good way, folks) bands. –Bradley Williams (P. Edwin Letcher, 2754 Prewett St., LA, CA 90031; )