Rooney Rooney (LP, colored Vinyl)

(Real Gone Music) 11 tracks, colored vinyl in metallic gold with printed inner sleeve.

Rooney (named after the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) was founded in high school by singer-songwriter Robert Schwartzman, whose list of celebrity connections is long: brother of actor Jason Schwartzman, cousin of actor Nic Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.

But it wasn't just celebrity that accelerated Rooney's rise; songs like "Blueside," "I'm Shakin'" and "I'm a Terrible Person" fuse power pop with British Invasion and punk influences to create a kind of rock 'n' roll classic in the best sense of the word. That's why none other than Johnny Ramone chose them for the Ramones tribute album We're a Happy Family, and why the band toured with cult bands like Weezer, The Strokes and The Donnas (they also appeared as themselves on the first season of The O.C.).

That's also why their 2003 self-titled debut (which was produced by Jimmy Iovine, among others) sold half a million copies... but somehow it was never released on LP. Our Real Gone release comes in gold metallic vinyl in a sleeve with a printed inner sleeve.