The 5-Inch Monkey Ska-cast: Recent Episodes
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Episode 6: Songs About Girls, Vol. 1 This week’s theme is self explanatory and an area that ska and reggae have explored extensively. In fact, just a quick brainstorm has given me enough tracks to feature this theme for at least two more episodes if I wanted to. Ah, women… Playlist Bomb Town – Joanna […]
A quick programming note for anyone who cares. I originally conceived of a twice monthly podcast, each with a loose theme. But I also want to highlight new or active bands and those two concepts are fighting each other. So, I will do three podcasts a month: one that highlights “new ska” and two others […]
Over the years, Asian Man Records has moved further away from releasing ska music and focused more on punk. Who could blame them? It is a business after all and ska fell out of favor in a big way as the 1990’s came to a close. However in his latest newsletter, Mike Park had this […]
Episode 4: UK New Ska Spotlight Since I have been actively seeking out new ska, it’s been the British ska that has surprised me the most. You see, I always thought of British ska as being strongly aligned with the 60’s Jamaican sound, the famous 2-Tone bands or bands influenced by that original 2-Tone movement. […]
This episode, we revisit a punk ska classic split CD, Skank for Brains and after that, highlight some new releases and new bands. Ska-Cast Episode #3 Asbestos Records recently re-issued the Skank for Brains split album on vinyl so I chose to play some tracks from the original Beach Records release. If there is such […]
Back in June, Asian Man Records celebrated their 15th anniversary and I didn’t want that event to get too far in the rear view mirror before I gave a aural shout-out to one of the best ska labels of the Third Wave era and beyond. Sure, they do a lot of great punk rock too […]
We start the very first ska-cast with some pioneers (Johnny Moore, Roland Alphonso, Desmond Dekker, Byron Lee) then slide into a set of songs from the defunct (but legendary) Moon Ska label (Mobtown, The Pietasters, Skunks, The Toasters, Gal’s Panic, The Skatet) and then wrap up the show with some songs by new or active […]
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