Move over Oasis and Bush, there is a new American alternative-punk band about to take over the reign as the rebels in town.

Peter Hayes, Robert Turner, and Nick Jago make up the San Francisco-based trio, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, better known as B.R.M.C.

The band independently produced a 13-song demo, which caught the ears of record companies, who then started their chase. Mere days after the debut of the demo, they were asked to join the Dandy Warhols on several U.S. tour dates. Not to mention, being invited to play the 2001 Sundance Film Festival alongside some of the most intriguing acts in the business.

They were called “The Elements” when they first started out as a band, but quickly realized the overuse of the title. That’s when they went with B.R.M.C, from Marlon Brando’s film “The Wild One.”

Their kind of music is a complete psychedelic mix of alternative punk to straight up burned-out blues. The new album has a very eclectic amount of tunes and their acoustic versions of many songs dominate.

Their piercing acoustic guitar tracks seem to stream out their vocals, yet one can still understand the words, which is not a necessity for past rock-and-roll bands. By understanding the words you can, more importantly, understand the meaning which seems to be a past time of most musical entrepreneurs today.

“As Sure as the Sun,” seems to have a love-sound twist that makes a person think instead of just listen. Skip track five, “White Palms,” the over-bass acoustic and screaming only creates a headache. “Rifles” and “Too Real” offer a grand acoustic taste, and “Salvation” ends the CD with somber intellect accompanied by a holy twist.

These guys want to produce their own album for right now, which is a change from the normality of what we have seen in recent years.

They seem to be in it for the music because they are not conforming to contemporary ways. They have said they are not in it for the fame or the huge arena, but for the love of the music. We have all heard it before, just hope this band gets better through the artists dedication and not the record company’s amount commercialization.

It is a good album, probably a 3 out of 5, it could have been better, just some advice for next time.