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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have announced the full line-up for their 12th annual Hometown Throwdown, being held at the House of Blues in Boston from December 26 - 28.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have 14 new songs ready to lay onto everyone who still wears porkpie hats and plaid sport coats.

Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Thursday, November 19, 2009 Better Than: Remembering the misled late-'90s mainstream notion of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones supposedly epitomizing ska.

Some details have been announced regarding the highly anticipated new full-length from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones .

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IT MIGHT HAVE been nine years since the band's last album, but it's never too late to dig the Squirrel Nut Zippers .

A great deal of the groundwork for the mid- to late-'90s explosion of ska and ska-metal was laid by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who were one of the first bands to cross high-energy ska with hardcore punk and heavy metal and who also helped shift its tone toward testosterone-filled party music.

One of the most important American ska bands, the Toasters did much to popularize the genre on the underground scene in the mid- to late '80s, laying the groundwork for later third-wave bands like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and ska's subsequent explosion in popularity in the mid- to late '90s. The Toasters perform at the Triple Rock with Sajak, ...

While the leak happened months ago, every time Neversoft annnounces more songs that are to appear in the upcoming party hit, Band Hero, the leak is proven more and more true.

Joe Gittleman was hired earlier this year to teach in the college's Music Business and Industry degree program, which focuses on what goes on behind the scenes rather than on the stage, covering both technical fields such as lighting design and sound engineering, and more service-oriented disciplines such as band management and venue operations.

While many of us fear it, change can often yield remarkable results. And in the case of Transitions, the aptly-titled 2006 Hellcat Records debut from Boston's acclaimed ska septet, Westbound Train, alterations in membership and label allegiance have only served to strengthen a band already known to genre aficionados for its live work ethic.

Drawing on musical influences as varied as reggae, ska, hip-hop, funk, afro-beat, and latin the sound is eclectic and upbeat.

Temecula resident Evan Pierce, 16, has fun with friends in a fearless mosh pit at Vic's Warehouse in Murrieta last Saturday.

Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett His stage presence an amalgam of Neil Diamond, P.T. Barnum and a raging bulldog, Mighty Mighty Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett 25 years ago couldn't have imagined he'd find the meaning of life at the crossroads of wild-eyed showman, howling madman and punk antihero.

Of all the rock shows I've worked on and covered for the local print news over the many years, I've always had a soft spot for No Doubt.

Of all the rock shows I've worked on and covered for the local print news over the many years, I've always had a soft spot for No Doubt.

It's been a big year for the New Brunswick-based band The Gaslight Anthem. After releasing its latest album, "The '59 Sound,'' last August, the group became the subject of rave writeups in the pages of Rolling Stone, NME, the New York Times and England's Kerrang! magazine, which declared the quartet "the best band you'llhear in 2008.'' Now it's ...

PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSE MICHAELS East Bay punk fixture Jesse Michaels, former lead singer of Operation Ivy, brings new band to Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco tonight.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones entered the studio on the Fourth of July to begin recording their first album of all-new material since 2002's A Jackknife to a Swan .

The ska revival of the '80s and '90s brought us The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sublime, Less Than Jake and plenty of other bands that fused the Jamaican genre's penchant for offbeat rhythms with punk rock's offbeat sense of humor.