To start you off in the holiday season ska-style, we recommend checking out all five volumes of the Strange Manor Christmas Albums. Here are our top recommendations for gifts for your fellow rude boys and rude gals. For a heavy-hitting gift, there’s the Ska CD of the Month Club and Ska Wax of the Month [...]
The Pietasters and the Slackers play the 9:30 Club with special guests, the Thrilltones opening. Hope to see you there for this awesome holiday treat!
The Beatdown’s self-titled album starts with the refrain Bob Marley taught us: “It’s Alright.” It’s evident from this album that these boys from Montreal know their history and they spend the whole album showing that they’ve studied up. As I’ve pointed out in my review of their EP, it’s clear that they’re comfortable (and enjoyable) [...]
It’s clear from the first track of Coast to Coast, the second album of Long Island’s Royal City Riot, that they’re a live band. “Rhythm” and many of the following tracks build in the choruses and shouts that make an audience want to sing along. Though they’re worked in on the album sounding a bit [...]
The Beatdown knows how to make an entrance. Starting off their self-titled EP with the track “One Night” – you wouldn’t know by the first few folk-rock bars that this was a ska song, but once the upbeat kicks in you’re in for a treat. “One Night” morphs into a style reminiscent of the Hepcat’s [...]
For those not lucky enough to grow up during the prime of hardcore punk, Thursday’s OFF! performance at Red Palace provided a taste of music history we can only see in documentaries and home videos. From start to finish the band of seasoned musicians packed a polished wallop of high intensity, old fashioned, hardcore punk. [...]
FROM THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL SKA FESTIVAL: THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL SKA FESTIVAL 21-24 April 2011 @ The Clapham Grand Theatre, London THE LONDON INTL SKA FESTIVAL promises 37 bands & DJs from 11 countries, showcasing the very best SKA has to offer from it’s roots in American Rhythm & Blues, to the Jamaican originators, their progression [...]
Their cover of “Don’t Let Me Down” is one of my faves. Here’s a version of them doing it on the 2008 Warped Tour in Montreal. The video quality is sweet and the sound is good. So it’s pretty much like being at Warped Tour without the sweat, dirt, and dust. It’s a little hard [...]
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings released I Learned the Hard Way on Daptone Records.
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