I just did a review of the new 10″ split album from The Green Room Rockers and The Pinstripes, Midwest Soundclash at my other site, Ska Blah Blah. There, you’ll find links to purchase and download the record- plus a little embedded player, where you can stream the whole thing for free.
I took a request for Agent 99, last week and decided to use that as a starting point for last night’s show. Next, a couple of other tracks I have that feature Dunia Best, the lead singer from Agent 99. Then, an all too tiny look back at some tracks that feature Jay Nugent- AKA Agent Jay- AKA Crazy Baldhead- also a former member of Agent 99. If you stuck around for the whole show last night you got an earful of sounds like Klezmer-Ska, Pirate-Noire Ska-Jazz, Hungarian Revivalist Ska, and so much more.
I finally finished getting a radio edit together for the Hub City Stompers track, Ska Train To Dorkville. Such filthy mouths! But the song is scathing commentary on a certain schism that’s been growing for years. No matter what side of the canyon that you’ve ended up on, I think the song was worth a listen- which means a ton of bleeps.
Hello and thanks for checking out another episode of Ska’s The Limit.
There was no overreaching theme, last night- no particular sub-genre was explored- no time was spent lingering in a particular genre- just a lot of great ska and reggae scorchers. I poked a little fun at ballsey white Rastas by playing Rocker T and JFK and The Conspirators on either end of Ras Trent.
Ska-Punk was peppered throughout, as I featured some of my favorite groups from the Do The Dog label in England. In fact, last night featured quite a bit more Ska-Punk than usual, still I had too many calls from the listeners complaining of too much Reggae on the Ska show.
I have no respect for this way of thinking, but here’s your ska-punk. Maybe next week, I’ll try to make the case that Reggae is actually a huge part of today’s Ska scene.