BAND:Brigands TITLE: Night Patrol GET IT: Available at CD Baby The Brigands As time goes on there is less punk and garage around so it's a treat to get the Brigands CD. The Brigands have been doing it garage style for 30 years and you gotta love that but don't get the attention of more known entities. They are a Boston band through and through. They cover songs by other Boston groups and sing about the city in their original lyrics. They start up with a cover of the Atlantics' Teenage Flu. They take out some polish and add some grit to make it their own. They are similarly all over two covers by La Peste, Acid Test and Spymaster. They just get rocking and let the song show itself. Looking for Lewis and Clark is recovering a gem by The Long Ryders a criminally forgotten band now. Covering Pills by Bo Diddly has been a time honored tradition around here and has always been a way for a band to play a straight ahead no-frills rocker. Brigands give a worthy version. Brand New Cadillac is a zingy update of the rockabilly song by Vince Taylor. They pump up the underlying riff and have a two note ricochet guitar lick that sticks in your head. What's cool is that the riff is in the original but in a passing way Brigands bring it forward and it works. What works in the covers works in the originals too. They fit in with the covers with equal weight. It's all straight ahead punky power chords with the drums and bass constantly moving to give excitement and variety. The bass especially propels the music along. Listen to the beginning of Night Patrol where the bass holds the interest until the group kicks in. All the originals are rockers, no ballads here. She's Mine is my fave but Jet Setter is right up there too. Let's Rock does what it says but then again they all rock. Ask the Globe brings the local reference to the fore. Cuts 10 to 16 are a string of originals that make the case for Brigands as a band that should be getting more kudos out there.