Ruby Rogers-Garcia, founder and front woman of Ruby and the Clumsy Dollies, grew up surrounded by records, musical instruments, and recording equipment, and a healthy respect for the creative process. Little wonder then that her innate songwriting and singing talent seemed to spring, fully formed, on her remarkable debut album New and Improved (Nov 7), recorded at her and the band's analogue studio in the Lower East Side of NYC. She has in fact been preparing for this moment all along, rising from her childhood bed to put 'Gimme Shelter' or the MC5 on the stereo, wrapping herself in the dreamy melancholy of Elliott Smith or the electrifying sounds of Link Wray, Big Star, The Sonics, The Dictators, and Lou Reed.