The Mighty Mighty Bosstones News

I previously mentioned the big Mandela concert going down at MSG on July 18th. Well, that show was moved to Radio City Music Hall .

Big D and the Kids Table have revealed the title, track listing and release date for their sixth full-length. Fluent In Stroll will be released on July 7, 2009 via Side One Dummy.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have been busy for quite a while now writing songs and recording demos for a new full-length. The band writes: In June we will begin recording the album in Los Angeles with our good friend Ted Hutt on board as Producer.

Don't be a ska hater. It's repetitive, it all sounds the same, there's that weird "skank" dance they do.

Remember the great ska craze of the mid-90s? My memory of that era is a bit cloudy, but from what I recall it was a thankfully short-lived phenomenon in which kids rediscovered English ska punk from the '80s, which itself was a rediscovery of the original version of ska, a Jamaican dance music that English mods listened to, a trendy precursor to ...

When Lacey McLennand was growing up here in the late '90s, she was a big fan of ska, including a local band called The Worms.

The college show atmosphere is unmistakable. A heavy vinyl tarp is placed over the basketball floor, an expensive light and sound setup is trucked in and the sports arena is transformed into a full-fledged music venue.

Get ready to bust out the Hypercolor shirts, fanny packs, blue hair dye and chain wallets this summer, because shit is about to get way '90s. That's right, Music City is rapidly becoming quite a hotbed for the '90s oldies circuit.

Friday night, the Big Dance was more like the Big Chill. With temperatures in the low 40s and whipping winds making it feel like half that, the kickoff to the weekend of free concerts on Detroit's Riverfront made the Final Four feel like the Frozen Four.

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.

Denver's favorite ska band Judge Roughneck is playing the Bluebird Theatre tonight.

Tokyo Police Club: The Canadian indie-rock band released one of those "critically acclaimed" albums, Elephant Shell , last year.

On their second album, Random Hand produce their brand of unlikely but ultimately victorious furious ska crossed with metal.

Dave Wakeling is the only original member of The English Beat that will perform in Pittsburgh this Saturday, but he can't shake the band name.

Be prepared to dance. The N.J. ska band Bigger Thomas plays the Sellersville Theater Friday night.

Fame, Fortune and Fornication Review Posted by Tom Santoro on 01.31.2009 The ska band blows...their horns for a collection of covers.

Perspiration dripping and brass blasting, the Toasters helped introduce bouncing third-wave ska music to the mainstream in the 1990s.

The Gaslight Anthem 's Brian Fallon posted another new solo track. The latest, " Cold Cold Ground ," is available at his MySpace page .

Home << Diem << Killing the stigma, starting the party While ska music was conceived in the late 1950s, most music fans recall its late a 90s resurgence, when bands like No Doubt, Sublime, The Mighty Mighty ...

For the next 80 minutes on Friday night, Barrett pretty much got his wish. Revived last Christmas after a four-year break, the Throwdown is a holiday tradition once again, and some things never change: You can ...