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SEE ALL MUSIC FEATURES RECOMMENDED TODAY: COWABUNGA BABES, DIAGONALS , Beerland Save for Tokyo rock & roll trio the Heiz dropping in, this is a solid gold fox of a local show.

Singer Raul Malo has made several San Antonio appearances while recording in the city.

Here are some of the events in the city this weekend. For more entertainment listings, be sure to check out our Weekday Planner, Stage, Clubs and Galleries listings.

The Slackers are back home on Hellcat Records. The New York ska outfit revealed it signed a contract with Epitaph's Hellcat Records, the label that released most of its albums to date.

The Voodoo Lounge is hosting a ska, reggae, surf, rock explosion, Monday, Sept. 28. This night would best be described as an excellent night of dancing, and live big band ska, rock, reggae, and funk.

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Former Boone-based ska and reggae outfit Bums Lie will return to their old stomping grounds on Saturday, July 25, when the band plays Boone Saloon.

It's a commonly held sentiment that ska has come in waves. It's said to have started in Jamaica in the 1950s/60s where the genre was the precursor to the iconic rocksteady and reggae music that would come out of the area.

The Slackers delivered their sermon at The Casbah, transformed for the moment into the a oeChurch of Slack.a I swear I heard someone yell Hallelujah! The Slackers at the Casbah Six well dressed musicians step up bathed in the pink glow of the stage lights, don their respective instruments and break into a downbeat rhythm lifted by a volley of ...

Against a fairly grim set of odds - with this past year's national economic doom, not too mention the sour fate of most local all ages venues of late - the Charleston Music Venue has survived its first year and a half in business.

Unless you're a white dude so confused as to be spouting some crazy sort of Lion of Jah wannabe crap, if you're a moderately competent band, it's a pretty simple task to make reggae music that people will enjoy when they hear it.