/r/Ska
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Related subreddits:
- /r/music
- /r/crackrock
- /r/punk
- /r/punk_rock
- /r/punkskahardcore
- /r/reggae
- /r/dub
- /r/soul
- /r/soulies
- /r/dancehall
- /r/rocksteady
- /r/calireggae
- /r/traditionalskinheads
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Help!
Just heard a song on the radio but didn’t catch the name… the lyrics were something like
I want to be part of the in crowd, I want to be cool like you
And it was sung by a female singer. Anybody know??
22:26 UTC
ska trumpet parts
hey yall, ive been learning the trumpet and was wondering if anyone here had any good (ska) trumpet sheet music they'd like to share. ⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️
22:22 UTC
Any Ska Punk stories you have?
Whether it be a concert experience,both good and bad,or you buying a new album,how you discovered a band,etc...do you have any stories related to Ska Punk?
20:53 UTC
Any good LA ska bands to recommend?
19:52 UTC
Confession: I actually like goofy third-wave ska bands like RBF and The Aquabats
Anyone here got any recommendations?
15:12 UTC
Can anyone here recommend any rare 80's American Ska 45's to look out for?
13:50 UTC
Early Ska Bands
I am really enjoying Ska, but admittedly my knowledge is lacking. I would like to collect some Ska on vinyl. Any recommendations welcome.
10:06 UTC
Cherry Poppin Daddies Ranked
04:03 UTC
A Jamaican Christmas
23:24 UTC
22:12 UTC
Can anyone here recommend any rare 90's American Ska 45's to look out for?
21:03 UTC
New Ska podcast out of Los Angeles!🏁
20:00 UTC
I charted "I'm Working Retail For Christmas" by We Are The Union for Clone Hero!
17:06 UTC
New Music Friday: Dec 14 - 20
Here's everything new we caught this week. And “we” includes you! So if you landed on something that isn't listed; please post and let us know! Stuff tends to trickle in during the day too, so if you see this early: check back in to see what else has been added.
##The Weekly Release Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3oNoUeqWHLceKj5hsdERSv?si=QCGh4j8QQdmASRgzT_4D_w
Courtesy of u/Itchy-Profession-725. Often includes additional Reggae and Punk releases.
##The Yearly Release Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rkTW7eH7xPwIHhYF6wMKh?si=jz51VafeQ5O8T-ZgGSE0qw
Courtesy of u/gotsubverted. All the Ska releases this year in one place. Our point of comparison for anything listed as previously missed.
##2024 Ska Album Sampler
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73kEnvoIROpTM6aOPKJgEw?si=3P5dej9RRr20LBjaBw3jsw
##2024 Ska EP Sampler
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sZQfnAKnmBeuKXgQeAxgo?si=aD98qT2kSLe8ucIC_3NlTA
##Don’t Be Shy!
If you think I've got a style wrong, if there's a bad link, or if you know where a band is from and I don't have it listed, or if you just want to talk about a release; don't be shy!
#Out Today
###Albums
Andrès Cotter & Ska Beat City - Andres Cotter Presenta Ska Beat City Instrumental Selection (Instrumental) (Trad, Rocksteady)
https://open.spotify.com/album/5gyaUjwVfnkavZQzPkXGt2?si=f2vJi8hoSkmkk4kIPMGfqA
Jacob Horn Trio - Next Year's Resolution (Power Pop, Ska-Punk, Rock)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2tHYDXQYFnW5qVqXPRW5Ah?si=o3wGiL5rT0W5VDDZGweywA%0A
https://jacobhorntrio.bandcamp.com/album/next-years-resolution
###EPs
Sonic Boom Six (and friends) - Future Shock/One Of The Boys - The Remixes (Ska-Punk, Drum n Bass) (remix) (UK)
https://open.spotify.com/album/7nG52JrDtbxEWVI4zBK0oF?si=nNI3p9K0Tj2T4jjAeUa4_Q
###Singles
Backyard Superheroes - Happy Holidays!!!?! (Ska-Punk)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1MGo4OrcgFUscWMgGQGDIB?si=mehQ_eS4RJiUBw-V-7dizg
Calypso's Curse - Death (Cali Reggae, Modern Ska)
https://open.spotify.com/album/0gMA4kWPOIyyKPJYgFenSu?si=MNlukXGsTKi6R5AMuoPKqw
Fruto Lírico - Mi protesta (Ska-Punk, Alt Rock, Latin) (Mexico)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3sqxPJMJz5BPG2JO4olNzD?si=vaL9GM5_Rw-AU7_fGw6gHw
The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - Teardrops From My Eyes (Ska-Jazz) (NY)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1pBJUfWm0LNM4aje1m4MWU?si=5QucDtS0TV6mcqZxOFHwiw
The Stepmoms - Sympathy for the Grinch (cover) (Ska-Punk, Hyperpop?)
https://open.spotify.com/album/7MyRMRsBL2ajQjthjG0IOc?si=AQkQVoWTS1WKAkoCuZm53Q
#Earlier This Week
###EPs
The Israelites - Rude Awakening (Trad, Rocksteady, Boss Reggae)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1LsSvcyDfOaBUEySstFqmn?si=WnoGIQbrRw6vSyD1Rq7HdA%0A
#Previously Missed
###Albums
Mustard Plug - Hey! (Ska-Punk) (Dec 13)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Xf7ve8dGKIgtUNJgFWLK7?si=Fl080zCsQi2hLvqL5ZH7eg
https://mustardplug.bandcamp.com/album/hey-ep
Instrumentalista + Skarlatines+ Many Loves Ska Jazz - Ritmos de Asfalto (Instrumental) (Modern Ska) (Dec 10)
https://open.spotify.com/album/6jsST4SCAhAfmPiitzwdpt?si=lQB8z4ImR9-_pj6HhoKzqg
The Orobians - Radiorobians (Trad, Ska-Jazz, Big Band) (Nov 25)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2eBC98ThwInFaGTwRxRRi7?si=CRjOdWGORkabrlanZDs33w
###EPs
Brehdren - Terror at Camp Brehdren (Ska-Punk, Rock, Experimental?) (Canada) (Dec 13)
https://open.spotify.com/album/4EwvvHDUwozkQod0vmai5e?si=JnaonudKTxSB6g33fzvXmA%0A
https://brehdren.bandcamp.com/album/terror-at-camp-brehdren
###Singles
Les Testarudes - Voll Uns Mocasins (Trad) (Dec 13)
https://open.spotify.com/album/4amygNKn7CWGyKayKwsWNz?si=EOoXUASGTZarE-HvKHGdYQ%0A
Los Espectros de Tu Jefa - So tu no estas (Modern Ska, Latin) (November 7)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2KmKOCCPThyJvi5KVDTdR5?si=F0hw5cAhQNm-pjZmN9BsWQ
14:24 UTC
Everything's wunderbar
We released our new album two weeks ago. If you like to check it out, I would be very interested in your opinios!
11:13 UTC
Pulling On The Boots - 1997 Sydney Punk and Ska compilation
This is a very tasty slice of what was, in retrospect, an amazing time for real alternative music in Sydney, Australia. Live recordings of local bands (with a couple of exceptions), from a 2 day “festival” at a notorious pub with one day crust and noise and the other streetpunk and ska. None of these bands "made it" (with the exception of one, who were suddenly above coming back for the live CD launch a few months later - you can figure it out), but that doesn't change that they were all still shit hot. And anyway, that misses the point; in an era just before the internet messed it all up and took away the need to create things for your own fun, the scene was a self-contained self-sufficient wild, wild DIY ride. A tour on couches to other cities, and a self produced record or two, was maybe as much as you could expect in terms of success - but what more would you want anyway? Things were small enough to require a kind of cross pollination between bands and between fans - you couldn't sit in snobby comfort in your little niche if you wanted to have fun every weekend - but big enough to sustain gig after gig with hundreds of people squeezed into the scummiest dives, firetrap rehearsal studios, tiny living rooms, backyards, abandoned industrial sites and squats. Its own little world, in other words, one just about unfathomable now, and, i think, unfamiliar to many unless you had a local punk scene back in the day. Only this one had some terrific ska in it.
Came across this quote which kind of gets at it:
“In those days you could pull 300-500 people. We didn't need the internet, c_nts would just show up to gigs. We'd just have a pole person and handbills, and we'd go around Newtown and hand 'em out to everyone in the pub. The pubs would love us because people would show up to the shows. We played a show at the Iron Duke and they took, like, 41 grand on the bar. We'd only get paid a couple hundred bucks, but they'd give us all the beer we wanted and we'd be allowed into any show there for free. It wasn't about the money to us, it was a lifestyle.”
Anyway I came across the recording uploaded to youtube and it brought back a flood of memories. It captures how good some of these bands were, i think. I wasn't there on that particular weekend but i was there many others and saw almost all these bands, many of them countless times.
It's now on bandcamp as well as a free download. Get it up ya:
https://noiselevels.bandcamp.com/album/pulling-on-the-boots-live-and-extremely-tanked
(Note: the last track is very long and actually has a bunch of songs in it including by skazoo, Hangovers and dr raju; there was a pub which had a jukebox that had all the local releases on it but as they were often punk songs it didn't really represent great value for money, so this was an attempt to beat the system).
For you ska heads, you will want to check out Dr Raju, Backy Skank, Skazoo, The Hangovers, Bedlam Beggars, Tank'o'piss, and Area 7. And H-Block too.
Hope some of you get a kick out if it. I know i have the last couple of weeks revisting.
Reminiscences from your hometown ska heroes scene welcome :)
07:41 UTC
Jim Murple Memorial
Thanks to nerds like myself and algorithms, I have spent the last couple of days in a deep dive listening to Jim Murple Memorial.
Would anyone have any suggestions of similar bands? The ska-jazz-Edith-Piaf vibe is really doing it for me. Mellow/rocksteady preferable, but hell, if you like them, let me know some other stuff that gets you moving.
To the random Redditor who first inspired me to look them up- thank you kindly.
06:29 UTC
Rocksteady Beauty?
Hey all, was feeling like I needed some chill music today so I tripped upon some real beautiful rocksteady in the form of The Delegators - real nice stuff and reminiscent of Dawn Penn. Anyone else felt this sweet rocksteady vibe lately?
20:31 UTC
On the Upbeat Wraps Up 2024 in Ska w/ guests Tara from Half Past Two, and former cohost RJ Phoenix
18:05 UTC
Skankin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Merry Christmas, from the Awesome Forces
17:45 UTC
I made a ska-centric comic about two kids sneaking into a Matamoska show!
You can read it on my website! https://www.rickyvigil.com/skamigos-sneak-into-the-show.html
I also have a few physical copies for sale and I’m donating the money made from those to Jovan from Matamoska’s Gofundme.
15:00 UTC
Anyone have a timeline li led to bands?
Like the title says. I’m lookin for a musical timeline that takes one from 2 Tone through 3rd Wave Ska. Help?
03:21 UTC
Lesser known 2-tone band recommendations?
whether they're from the label itself or the time period. basically anything besides the specials, bad manners, madness, the bodysnatchers, the selector, or the english beat.
00:36 UTC
NYE in NYC
Anyone know of any ska gigs goin down NYE in NYC?
00:33 UTC
Everyone wants Ska Christmas Songs?! Well here is a perfect one. Devon Kay & the Solutions - Christmas Wrapping
23:13 UTC
no room in ska! stickers by me 🤘🏼
23:07 UTC
I’ve been saying this.. Chudson is making waves! Acknowledge the new generation, folks. 😂
19:23 UTC