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Better Late Than Never , the Slackers' first full-length CD, came out in 1996 on a label called Moon Ska Records, founded by a guitarist named Robert Hingley .

It's an easy mistake to make: letting the coolness of a brand get in the way of giving it a fair review.

Headline performers The Toasters enjoy iconoclastic pioneer status among American ska fans and for good reason.

The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997.

WEDNESDAY: This thing called Ska Is Dead IV rolls through the Ottobar with the corpses of the Toasters , Deals Gone Bad , Eastern Standard Time , the International Jet Set , and the fucking Voodoo Glow Skulls .

Skavenjah Hey Little Rich Girl The Big Upgrade The Skatalites Musical Storeroom The Coventry Automatics The Heptones The Bluebeats King Django Hey, Bartender Justin Hinds & The Dominoes Corner Stone Checkered Cabs Honor Your Father and Your Mother The Toasters Freedom The Pacers Strokes of Reality Eastern Standard Time Tick Tock Dr.

Band: Johnny 9 and the Racers . Next gig: Oct. 29 at The Space , with Expiry and Lion of Ido; Nov.

After performing more than 4,500 shows across the world, America's longest-running ska band still enjoys coming back to State College.

Columbus brought smallpox to the New World. Enola Gay brought the A-bomb to Hiroshima.

Since 1981, New York City ska band The Toasters have been lighting up clubs and festivals all over the world with their own brand of two-tone ska.

"If You Got Some," share it. If you don't, well, this CD release show will bring it to you.

The Toasters were stalwarts of the ska scene by the time I got into the genre at the age of 16.

Child Enrichment Inc. will host the 14th Annual Art of Chocolate on Friday, Oct.

Local purveyors of ska, punk and alt-rock angst Avon Junkies are joining kindred musical spirits The Toasters , Mustard Plug , The Pilfers , Voodoo Glow Skulls , Hub City Stompers and more for a gig at high-profile New Jersey venue Starland Ballroom November 15.

A New Haven autumn presents an interesting dichotomy. While everyone else winds down from the buzz of summer, the live music scene here really gets kicking.

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.

Ajax, Ont. ska punk band The Johnstones have announced some North American tour dates in support of the recently released Can't Be Trusted .

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.

June 3rd, 2009 by elawgrrl in Local Music , Photo review , Photos , Reviews , concerts Ed Lowery and friends threw a benefit concert in support of Mike Formato , a friend injured in a serious scooter accident, at New World Brewery this past Saturday May 30.