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Floozie with Colors in the Air and Juxtaposse

Scruffy enough to know how to find a good time but just polished enough to aim at the big time, the latest record from Niagara Falls-based band Floozie is a lovable, ragged success for the quartet. She Wants to Be Some Body is a concept record, a rock and roll triptych that follows a female protagonist on a coast to coast journey in search of self. Floozie doesn’t overthink the album too much, and instead lets the riffs and rhythms do the heavy lifting. The band’s reckless, youthful zeal shows in a lot of what they do (in their bio they admit, with no shame, that they once opened for a member of New Kids On the Block) and, for whatever it might take away, this quality can be worth its weight in gold for a rock band. Singer/guitarist Jim Schwartz and lead guitarist Michael McGranor tear it up while bassist Marty Schebell Jr. and drummer Matt Manera hold it down. With She Wants to Be Some Body Floozie merges a likable brand of rough-shod pop/blues with a studio-crafted Ocasek/Cars sheen (thanks to noted Buffalo musician Nelson Starr taking on production duties) that lands them as one of the area’s hottest young bands—and there ain’t nothing wrong with being a hot young band. On the heels of their Thursday at the Square gig opening for Soul Asylum (a much more respectable act than Jordan Knight, fellas) Floozie celebrates the release of She Wants to Be Some Body this weekend with support from special guests Colors in the Air and Juxtaposse.

11pm. Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. (852-3900/www.townballroom.com). $10