What is DCSka.com?
DCSka.com is a web site for your ska music needs in the Washington, DC area.  It's a site set up to promote the DC ska scene, but isn't restricted to just ska.  We specialize in ska, but we're open to all types of music like punk, rockabilly, Oi!, reggae, dub, pop-punk, etc.  Support your local music, whatever it may be!

Who's behind DCSka.com?
DCSka.com is run by Rude in DC Productions, which is a DIY full force bunch of friends who love ska and the DC/MD/VA scene.  In the past Rude in DC has done a bunch of things including: running dcska.com, making merch and throwing shows, and doing sound for shows here and there.  We got our start putting on shows at the Corner Kick in Gaithersburg, MD.  Many people contribute to the site, but our main staff includes Michelle, Rudy, Bob, and Kat.  You can read more about us below.  

	Name:	Michelle "dcskagirl" Chin
	DCSka user name:	dcskagirl
	AIM screen name:	dcskagirl
	MySpace page:	myspace.com/dcskagirl
	What do you listen to?:	Elvis Costello, the Pietasters, the Aggrolites, Deal's Gone Bad, 1Xtra (UK hip-hop station), Pete Miser, Pilfers, soul, old school hip-hop, good ska
	What do you do for the site?:	I'm the webmaster of the site doing all sorts of things from writing reviews to dealing with technical stuff and troubleshooting.  I organize schedules and staff writings and help guide the overall direction of the site.
	What are your CD recommendations to novices?:	Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, any CD from the bands I mentioned above, V/A - Joint Adventures in Ska, the Clash - London Calling, Stubborn All Stars - Back with a New Batch
	What's your favorite local venue?:	the Warehouse Next Door when it was open
	What's your favorite DC landmark?:	Ben's Chili Bowl
	Baltimore or DC?	DC hands down, but I hang out in Baltimore a lot now, so it's grown on me.

	Name:	Bobby Bobson
	DCSka user name:	bobbybobson
	AIM screen name:	rockerb181
	MySpace page:	myspace.com/bobby_bobson
	What do you listen to?:	reggae, reggae, REGGAE
	What do you do for the site?:	I bully people on the messageboard and writes a lot of stuff for the site.
	What are your CD recommendations to novices?:	Vinyl!
	What's your favorite local venue?:	Baltimore - Ottobar, DC - Black Cat
	What's your favorite DC landmark?:	Ben's Chili Bowl
	Baltimore or DC?	A happy medium

	Name:	Rudy Rudell
	DCSka user name:	Rudy
	AIM screen name:	Roodlemon
	MySpace page:	myspace.com/rudyrudell
	What do you listen to?:	Emo and Journey
	What do you do for the site?:	I a writer and I help do some admin stuff.  I also moderate the message board.
	What are your CD recommendations to novices?:	Pietasters - All Day, Soul Jazz - Studio One: Funk
	What's your favorite local venue?:	Black Cat Black Cat (I can get good food there)
	What's your favorite DC landmark?:	Ben's Chili Bowl; edible landmarks win.
	Baltimore or DC?	Baltimore's cheaper but DC's cleaner, depends on my wallet and supply of wet naps.

	Name:	Kat Wallace
	DCSka user name:	KatsMieow
	AIM screen name:	mieowsynth
	MySpace page:	myspace.com/mieow
	What do you listen to?:	punk, ska, rock 'n roll, rockabilly, 90s alternative rock
	What do you do for the site?:	I write Menage-a-Trashe, your one stop read for your favorite celebrity trainwrecks.
	What are your CD recommendations to novices?:	Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"; Tim Armstrong - "A Poet's Life"; The Misfits - "Collection II"; Trojan UK Box Set; Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - "Hearts Of Oak; Shake The Sheets"
	What's your favorite local venue?:	Black Cat
	What's your favorite DC landmark?:	U Street
	Baltimore or DC?	DC is home; Baltimore is dirty and fun.

What's with the big change with dcska.com?
After using the PHP-Nuke web portal system, we started to get a lot of spam and the system was a little quirky.  So we decided to pull down the site, fix it up and use a new web portal system, which works better for us.  

Do people get paid to work for dcska.com?
Nope, all work done for dcska.com is 100% volunteer elbow grease. Hence we really appreciate anyone who takes time out of their busy schedules to help us out. THANKS!!

When was DCSka.com started?
DCSka.com established a home on the Net on September 16, 2000.  It's been going crazy ever since.

What's the history of DCska.com?
DCSka.com is about the 3rd or so incarnation of a web resource on the DC Ska scene.  Originally, Digital (of the famed Checkered Cabs and EST), maintained a page and then that disappeared.  In Feburary 1999, I (Michelle) started an email newsletter listing upcoming shows in the MD/DC/VA area.  About a month later, Craig created a counterpart web site "The DC Ska Resource".  Then Craig got really busy with school and wasn't able to devote the time he wanted to maintain the site.  So, he passed it off to me and I bought dcska.com added some info to it and things took off from there.  In 2003? the site got a makeover and became a dynamically driven site, so it was a lot easier to maintain and update.  In the summer of 2006, we took what we intended to be a short hiatus to bring a better web site, but we lost a little bit of motivation, not to mention that Dan was going through some really serious treatments for Hodgkin's disease.  Throughout that year Dan and I tossed around the idea of continuing or not continuing the site and what direction it would take.  When Dan passed away, I still wasn't really sure whether or not to continue the site.  I listened to massive amounts of hip-hop after that and realized that I really like ska music and that I couldn't really walk away from it.  So with Rudy, we spent a lot of days, evenings, and hungover weekends working on DCSka.com to bring it back, and it's here to stay.

Mailing Address:
Our mailing address for demos and whatever else is:
DCSka.com / Rude in DC Productions
P.O. Box 341
Rockville, MD 20848