Our erstwhile ska hardliners are now essentially a four-piece, with saxist Lorraine front and centre handling vocal duty. |
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It fused reggae, ska and rockabilly in a multicultural rant against poverty and discrimination. |
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It is strange to think of all these Cherubic looking children being into punk rock and ska but they were. |
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The world of ska and reggae has always been arcane and alien to those outside it. |
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This loveable rascal is probably best known for the Jamaican ska beat that is the signature of much of his song-writing. |
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The singer's whining vocals grate, and a bit more ska and a bit less rawk would be a vast improvement. |
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No boobies, but more black neckties than I ever hope to see outside of a Blues Brothers film festival or a big ska revival. |
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The musical landscape is dotted with the wreckage of disco, new wave, glam rock, grunge, and most recently, ska revival. |
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The band took to the stage next, with slamming guitar riffs and punky ska tracks. |
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The song is a snappy blend of doo-wop, ska and rhythm and blues, with an uptempo dance-beat. |
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As an original finale, they combined an Irish jig with ska which was infectiously received. |
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The heart of the Fat Freddy sound is reggae, from ska through to dub, to which they add subtle hints of house music. |
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Next door, was a cafe run by a former ska musician with a love for house and techno. |
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There are 30 young acts performing music ranging from punk to hip hop and ska to salsa. |
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Mixing up various Latino styles with reggae, ska and a pinch of rockiness, they aim to get the party started, pure and simple. |
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They have consistently laid down the traditional styling of ska music, taking influences from its early days along with rocksteady and reggae. |
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The ska lads had emerged from Coventry the year before, rude boys all, and had yet to be eclipsed by their labelmates. |
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Interest in the Specials has burgeoned lately with the use of the two-tone legends' ska sounds in advertisements. |
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The whole concept of Californians playing rock steady and ska just seems plain wrong, but that is what the band consider their strength. |
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Suddenly I feel a great urge to put on a pork-pie hat and do some ska dancing. |
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There were quite a few bands doing ska and reggae rhythms with a punk rock attitude and punk rock music. |
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To all but a few enlightened purists, ska equals white people playing reggae embarrassingly fast. |
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I hate the Montreal music scene because it has ska bands and ska bands are monotonous. |
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I got a bunch of hardcore punk, ska and reggae playing guys and threw them the curve ball. |
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Livewire punk popsters A and ska powerhouses Less Than Jake worked the audience like the festival veterans they are. |
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If you like a bit of ska it's time to get out the pork-pie hat and practice the Nutty Dance. |
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Musically, the sextet mixes punk and ska with Klezmer and Eastern European folk music. |
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This frenetic groove band apparently still plays ska, punk and funk as frenziedly as ever. |
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Why is the earliest documentary evidence from 1964, when most people remember ska from earlier than that? |
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He bristles when asked about the band's rabid experimentation with musical styles ranging from country to ska to speed metal to prog. |
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On their debut full-length, they combine syncopated ska guitars, manic horns, driving punk rhythms and frontman Tomas Kalnoky's raspy vocals. |
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These guys are real nasty jammers, they do gypsy reggae, Latino ska funk, you name it. |
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Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes. |
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His simple, often hypnotic approach, to ska, rocksteady and reggae made him one of the most distinctive sounding musicians of the era. |
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Mexican jumping beans Los De Abajo followed with a frenetic performance of rock, salsa, mariachi and ska all rolled in to one. |
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Bob's music pieces together elements of jazz, Gypsy swing, calypso and sega as well as the more modern hip hop and ska beats. |
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It's an eerie, twisted ska track with Jon's vocals reverberating across the top. |
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The new material sounded good and, with a lot of emphasis on ska rather than punk, the album is something to look forward to. |
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And as much as it is very popular music, people still haven't got a clue what ska is. |
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Adventurous interpretations of ska and reggae rhythms are an important part of their formula. |
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Fresh from their recent comeback gig at the Festival Hall, The Beat will be bringing their mix of reggae, ska and punk to Croydon with a set to get the crowd jumping. |
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I was looking for new links about ska this week and stubbled on 3 sites that might interest you. |
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Born in 2002, this French band from Bordeaux manages to make rock, ska and klezmer get along well, with simplicity and straightforwardnesss. |
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Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath. |
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But the rest of the record is pretty good too, shifting wildly between bluesy rap, dancefloor ragga, punk guitar, dubbed-out ska and spacey ambience. |
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Most tracks feature accordion, several bounce along on a jaunty Colombian cumbia rhythm, and others evoke the reggae and ska of UK two-tone bands. |
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Soon enough the dance halls were dominated by the ska beat, which eventually metamorphosed into rocksteady, this transformation paving the way for the emergence of reggae. |
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Everyone always described the band as a cross between ska and punk rock. |
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A blend of punk, ska and pop made it a favourite among both white and black audiences. |
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Little wonder why this band have a unique and diverse delivery, all cleverly capsulated in an infectious ska reggae feel. |
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Later came an electropunk version of Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues punctuated with ska horns. |
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Since the late 1950s, sound systems have been the motor in the development of the music from ska to ragga and all points in between. |
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Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady. |
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Pressurize the Cabin is the latest album by Fort Knox Five, celebrating funk from dancehall ska to hip-hop, disco, electro, and Latin rhythms. |
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On Saturday night, Police Scotland had formally confirmed the first name of a dead occupant in the bar, which had held about 120 people listening to a local ska band, Esperanza, as Gary Arthur, 48, from Paisley. |
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Recorded in their own studio, above an Indian restaurant, their retro rock, jazzy jumping blues, soul and ska thali sizzles with sass and spice. |
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They are both 50, they both spent part of their younger lives living in Haverfordwest and obviously they share a love of soul, ska and bluebeat. |
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Raised within a Scotish pipe band and a snare in his hands, he then became interested in other kinds of music like ska and rock, and even some world music like rai, bossa nova, batucada and of course reggae dub music. |
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Music will be provided by mod, scooterist and ska bands, playing both inside and outside the Bradford Street pub. |
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Buster Bloodvessel's heavyweight ska outfit are still skanking after all these years and will be doing the Can Can at Aberdeen's Lemon Tree tonight. |
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Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice. |
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Completing the line-up is Gingersnap and The Style Pile, who are a Newcastle-based six-piece funk act with reggae and ska influences incorporated into their sound. |
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The Coventry-based band, which he has led for the past eight years, mixes ska with rockabilly and has performed at ska festivals, scooter rallies and numerous music venues. |
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The ska punk band Lightyear also hail from the city, naming their second album Chris Gentlemens Hairdresser and Railway Book Shop after a shop in Macklin Street. |
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The very special ska revival group re-formed in 2009 for a 30th anniversary tour and have never looked back, performing hundreds of sell-out concerts all over the world. |
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They will be playing with Hepcat, a nine-piece band from Southern California that sounds like a hodgepodge of retro styles, jumpy, ska rhythms and soul-inspired melodies. |
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Ska Cubano bring hot Cuban rhythms and Ska together in this big band musical extravaganza. |
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Jamaica also played an important role in the development of punk rock, through reggae and ska. |
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Ska Cubano, as the name implies, merge several elements and the hybrid appears to have won them many new friends at festivals across Europe. |
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The musical genres reggae, ska, mento, rocksteady, dub, and, more recently, dancehall and ragga all originated in the island's vibrant, popular urban recording industry. |
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Gangsters of Ska, led by Martin Baird, aka The Fat Controller, have been a popular attraction on the local gigging and clubs circuit for years. |
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Following his de parture released its way s 4 THE SPECIALS A partial reunion brought Coventry Ska legends The Specials back into the limelight last year. |
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The SKA will use a forest of antennae, spread across remote terrain, to pick up radio signals from cosmic phenomena that cannot be detected by optical telescopes. |
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