March
31: 2000 - Good Friday? Pressure Cooker (Boston MA) with Doc & Mary Empire Brewing Rochester
29: 1980 - Black Echoes Brenda Russell cover, innards by Steve Barrow where Laurel Aitken shows The Beat the beat
29: 1980 - Don't read that read this! Jackie #847 has the Tops from 2Tone [very last page]
29: 1980 - some say Selecter Missing Words TT-10 was released today
28: 1980 - Duke Vin vs Jah Shaka Soundclash at the Electric Ballroom Camden Town
27: 2020 - R.I.P. Keith Anderson bka Bob Andy, Commander Distinction, aged 75
27: 2020 - Derrick Morgan, the conquering ruler is 80
26: 2020 - Postal Workers Are Stressed!
26: 2019 - R.I.P. Ranking Roger Charlery, aged 56
26: 2003 - Rocksteady 7 Rochester
26: 1990 - Monday night NYC SKA LIVE (MR-022) recorded Cat Club Manhattan
25: 2006 - MP Ambrose keys with Dave Wakeling's English Beat Rochester NY
24: 1999 - Bim Skala Bim in City
23: 2020 - R.I.P. Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig aka Bueka1211
23: 1996 - Coolie Ranx & the Toasters, Too Hectic Alfred University
23: 1989 - Ska Explosion night at Astoria London
22: 1980 - Fatty Dread! Buster Bloodvessel on this week's Sounds
22: 1980 - Bodysnatchers on this week's Record Mirror
21: 1980 - Madness Work, Rest & Play E.P. out on Stiff/ it's the Ronan dublinsax O'Donnell fanzine namesake
20: 2020 - Lee Scratch Perry is 84
19: 2020 - Fun Boy 3 Terry Hall is 61, Deltaforce 23 Jon Barra is 43
17: 1995 - Toasters Rochester Boogie Bar
15: 1980 - Dexy's Midnight Runners tribute to Geno Washington out on 45
15: 1980 - Why is this man smiling? Rude Boys Can't Fail (Specials USA w/ Garry Bushell) in Sounds
15: 1980 - Melody Maker: Chas & Suggs Chock Full o' Nuts (Madness in NYC)
15: 1980 - Bodysnatchers TT-9 out Let's Do Rocksteady/ Ruder Than You out
14: 1980 - Have you heard the latest news? Ian Page releases Laurel Aitken & Unitone 45
14: 1980 - Catch me if you can, I won't record no backhander: Elvis should play Ska PAR100
13: 2003 - Thursday/ Slackers/ Milestones/ $5
13: 1998 - R.I.P Judge Dread, aged 52 on stage at the Penny Theatre in Kent
12: 2009 - Aggrolites add second night in Rochester with Dropkick Murphys
12: 1982 - Jam #6 The Gift out
12: 1964 - Millie smash record My Boy Lollipop out
12: 1938 - Don Drummond born on this day
9: 2020 - full worm moon, also Coolie Ranx at 55
8: 1980 - Birmingham Between the Lions // Roger Charlery & The Beat in this weeks NME
7: 2020 - Pilfers The Abruptors Some Ska Band + Barbara's birthday at Flour City Station
3: 1927 - Tommy McCook born on this day
1: 1980 - The Old (Rude) Boy Network: Laurel Aitken in Sounds by Paul Bradshaw
March 2019 - Guitar Player has Claypool Lennon cover
March 2019 - Classic Pop #50 The Specials cover
March 2019 - Vive Le Rock #61 has 3 collectable covers for 2Tone's 40th anniversary
February
29: 2012 - Leap year? Helen McGraw Branch gets a Jimmy Cliff Sacred Fire E.P.
28: 1993 - WBER FM presents Bad Manners w/ Scofflaws Boogie Bar Rochester.. scroll down for letterpress poster
28: 1980 - Selecter live Guildhall, Portsmouth recorded (this footage later used in Dance Craze)
27: 1980 - Muziekkrant OOR #4 features their 2Tone spectacular
26: 1992 - Bosstones Buffalo (last date of More Noise tour)
24: 1980 - The Edge & Q107 FM is proud to present Specials w/ The News at Maple Leaf Ballroom, Toronto
23: 2020 - Toasters 4 Decades in Ska stopsat Mohawk Place Buffalo 8pm
23: 1980 - Pauline Rainbow Melody Maker
23: 1980 - Selecter Madness NME
22: 2006 - Slackers Peculiar out; reissued Oct 2019
21: 2012 - Toasters Dubland (first of 3)
21: 2001 - Slackers Wasted Days out
21: 1986 - Toasters, A-Kings, Beat Brigade, Second Step, at Loeb Student Center NYU
20: 1980 - Chrysalis TT-8, Selecter Three Minute Hero released
19: 2020 - Dave Wakeling 64
17: 2015 - hpska.com gets Kaler Carpenter @OneontaSkaSociety mention
16: 2000 - Ryan Whirty City News Pressure Cooker Empire Brewing Lager Rhythms Series
16: 1989 - Deltones (ex-Bodysnatchers, Belle Stars) Nana Choc Choc in Paris, PHZA-31 licensed from a French label Boucherie
15: 2020 - 25 years of Stomp Records
15: 1990 - Adam Birch plays horn on PHZA-50, Laurel Aitken Ringo The Gringo, out today
14: 2020 - Hits Of ’77: Various Artists, 2CD of Sonia Pottinger productions
14: 2020 - Fire Corner! Clancy Eccles & Dynamites 2Fer out today
14: 1980 - The Beat Hands Off She's Mine released on GoFeet
12: 2020 - 50 Years of Chuck Wren
11: 2015 - hoi polloi = a $2000 triple-stumper on Jeopardy #7003
11: 2005 - the late Doc Awk fondly remembers WRUR reggae shows in newsprint
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire Brewing Lager Rhythms Series
11: 1995 - Miggedys HBB
11: 1989 - The Toasters first Chicago appearance
10: 2020 - Hooray it's Doug Schrank Day
10: 1994 - Skaboom! + Recriminations MRO13 CD nineties compile w/ graphic blandishment by Andres 'Blanquito Man' Chango RIP
9: 2020 - full snow moon occurs at 2:33 a.m. EST (0733 GMT)
9: 1989 - PHZA-26 Donkey Show Bali Island E.P. out on Unicorn
9: 1980 - New Musical Express Specials in press conference/ the 2Toning of America
9: 1980 - Record Mirror Pauline: slashed with a broken bottle? Madness: would Olivia dance with these boys?
8: 1990 - PHZA-60 Toasters Frankenska (Live Islington 12 JUN 89) out on Unicorn
8: 1973 - Perry Henzell's film The Harder They Come premieres in New York City
8: 1969 - NME: D. Dekker & the Aces will return to Britain March 14! Plus a new single called Israelites, issued to coincide
7: 2020 - internationalclashday.com (seventh annual)
7: 2003 - Prince Buster, Gaz & Determinations Prince of Peace live Osaka JP it's recorded CD/ dvd
7: 2003 - The Beat at the Royal Albert Hall UK it's recorded for MVD dvd
6: 2020 - 75 Years of Bob Marley
5: 2020 - SSB Record Archive Backroom happyhour
3: 1959 - Buddy Holly/ Richie Valens/ Big Bopper planecrash
2: 2020 - Aimee Interrupter 38, Groundhog's Day
Feb 2020 - Do The Dog #104 with Zen Baseballbat
January 2020
29: 2007 - Paul Weller begins a three-night Hit Parade at Irving Plaza NYC
28: 2019 - The Big Issue #1343 is taking the Specials back to Ghost Town via augmented reality
28: 2006 - Toasters, Go Jimmy Go at Alfred University Powell CC Knight Club
28: 1986 - NASA Challenger shuttle disaster
28: 1941 - King Tubby born
27: 2020 - 50 Years of Steve Pietaster Jackson
26: 1980 - The Beat, UB40 & The Akrylykz at Camden's Electric Ballroom
26: 1980 - a rather large Selecter feature in Sounds "Pressure & Slide"
26: 1980 - Specials Hurrah NYC &
TT7 Too Much Too Young Live E.P. No 1 In England
25: 2020 - Mephiskapheles, Inspecter 7, Public Serpents at 66th Congress Brooklyn NY
22: 2020 - 60 years of Michael Hutchence
21: 2020 - Lloyd Bradley is 65, Darren Reggae spins 46
20: 1998 - Hepcat's Right on Time on Hellcat CD/ LP/ cassette
20: 1958 - Adrian Sherwood born London UK
18: 2020 - Noble Vibes Johnny's Irish Pub on 1382 Culver, $5
18: 2020 - Adicts Haunt Ithaca
17: 2020 - new album from Long Beach Dub Allstars
17: 1970 - Derrick Morgan Moon Hop [CRAB 32] enters the UK singles chart for 1 week at #49
15: 2020 - Willo is 53 today!
14: 2020 - Watch this! Chas Smash is 61
14: 2000 - Nigel & Allstonians live UR Wilson Commons coffeehouse, it's recorded
14: 1994 - SKA deemed next big thing by Billboard® magazine
14: 1989 - Steve Lamacq writes 2 big New Musical Express pages on Zoot skazine & late 80's London ska awakening
14: 1965 - Georgie Fame's version of Yeh Yeh released
13: 2016 - Suggs is 55, also Rocksteady 7 appears in New York Times Crossword page
12: 1990 - Goldmine #247 cover Bob Marley and the Wailers w/discography by Timothy White
12: 1980 - LOOK-IN #3 TOM BAKER DR WHO SELECTER TWO TONE SKA
11: 1997 - Go Go Rays/ Lettuce Boy/ Creepers/ Too Hectic/ Miggedys at Mercury Theatre, Buffalo NY $5
11: 1980 - TT7 Too Much Too Young Live E.P. out, backsleeve Terry Hall Sr. praises Jr. in Coventry Evening Telegraph
11: 1942 - Clarence Clemons born
11: 1964 - Whisky a Go Go first opens on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood
11: 1895 - Tonewheel? Laurens Hammond, inventor of the organ, born in Evanston IL USA
10: 2020 - full Wolf moon will appear opposite the sun on Friday at 2:21 pm EST
9: 2006 - hpska.com begins
9: 2001 - itunes.com begins
9: 1991 - Specials Singles Collection CD/ CASS released on Chrysalis 21823 US cover orange yellow
9: 1990 - Derrick Morgan The Moon Hop on Unicorn UK PHZA-63
8: 2020 - F-word Ska brother No.1 in City Newspaper
7: 2020 - R.I.P Neil Peart, Rush drummer, aged 67
4: 1979 - Blondie Heart of Glass single out, sleeve complete w/ heart shaped-hype sticker
3: 2020 - Ring in New Year Adam the Goth presents Turkey Blaster Omega + Some Ska Band Rochester $5 /hang 12 under 18h
2: 2020 - R.I.P. Jason Lawless Sirota, LA ska reggae impresario, aged 42
Jan 2020 - Subculture for Life #0 is new 'zine by CHemaskandal
Jan 2019 - Do The Dog #95 The Specials
Jan 2019 - Record Collector #488 The Clash London Calling 40
Jan 2005 - Jimmy Page, Joe Massot and Me? HP#8 in Record Collector #306
Jan 1998 - ultimate ska mayhem of Do The Dog #11
Jan 1997 - new 737 (issue #7 of the Bosstones-inspired fanzine)
Jan 1995 - new 737 (issue #4 of the Bosstones-inspired fanzine)

December
29: 2019 - Hometown Throwdown #22 December 27, 28, & 29 HOB Boston MA
28: 2009 - Hometown Throwdown #12 MMB w/ openers Bim Skala Bim (Reunion) and Pietasters
26: 2019 - Music for the moment
25: 2019 - HP Christmas tracks collection
24: 2019 - Under the Clock by Shelley Hinchliffe Reece [fiction set during the time of 2Tone] in paperback via Amazon
22: 2002 - Rollem, Mellor... R.I.P. Joe Strummer, aged 50
22: 1979 - Ranking Roger boombox cover of Sounds w/ Bodysnatchers, Madness's My Girl 45 out loads more
19: 2019 - Slackers & Mephiskapheles at U Street Music Hall Washington DC
19: 1998 - Eastern Standard Time Syracuse
17: 2000 - Moon Ska NYC Records shut
17: 1979 - The Who (and their December 3 Cincinatti OH stampede) get checkerboards on the covver of TIME® Magazine
15: 1996 - Tom Miller's TEAHOUSE hosts all-ages Ska Punk matinees now
14: 2019 - Don Letts screening of Westway to The World with surviving members of The Clash at BFI Southbank
14: 1979 - The Clash 2LP London Calling released in UK
13: 2019 - Hub City Stompers's Blood, Sweat and Years Amazon preorders ship
13: 1998 - Slackers open for Skatalites haunt Ithaca NY
12: 2019 - full moon will occur on December 12th at 12:12 AM ET, and is known as the Cold Moon or Long Nights Moon
12: 2014 - JA Oldies Productions Chicago hosts Charlie Organaire, Prizefighters, Monty Montgomery & Bishops. Poster by CH, 8pm CST
12: 1980 - The Clash 3LP Sandinista! released in UK
9: 1940 - Clancy Eccles born, Dean Pen Parish St Mary Jamaica
8: 1980 - John Lennon killed
8: 1979 - Beat Tears of a Clown TT-6 released today
8: 1978 - BC Oster (Professionals/ Zoo Crew/ The Blackouts) born
8: 1945 - Toots Hibbert born, May Pen Parish Clarendon Jamaica
7: 1984 - General Public at the Felt Forum NYC
6: 1998 - (Sunday) Reverend HH, Amazing Crowns, Flat Duo Jets at Water St
5: 2017 - Interrupters +4 Montage Music Hall Rochester
5: 1996 - Scofflaws w/ Too Hectic Haunt Ithaca
4: 2019 - Reverend HH, VooDoo Glow Skulls, 5678s, +1? Tralfamadore Cafe Buffalo NY $40
4: 2003 - Rancid's Indestructible Tour stops at Water St
3: 2015 - R.I.P. Gladdy Anderson, aged 81
3: 1995 - Bosstones UR Alexander Palestra, it's 82 mins recorded by fjackie
3: 1976 - Marley Assasination attempt, Hope Road
2: 2017 - Mephiskapheles +2 Mohawk Place matinee, 3pm
Dec 2018 - Smash #91 Interrupters on cover
November
29: 2019 - Some Ska Band annual Black Friday show Fairport b-side, 8-11pm
29: 2019 - Spoiled brat? Black Friday Skalars Skoolin' LP issue on JumpUp
29: 1996 - (Fri) Big D and the Kids Table at TT the Bears Cambridge MA
29: 1979 - Selecter at Coventry Tiffanys it's Carry Go Bring Come live recorded for b-side
27: 1999 - R.I.P. Roy Samuel Ried, AKA I-Roy, aged 55
26: 2000 - Slackers Rochester NY Skanksgiving 2 also the Blackouts and Motives support
26: 1997 - NYC SKA MOB TOUR Mercury Theatre Military Road Kenmore NY
24: 1979 - The Bodysnatchers make their debut at Windsor Castle in London tonight
23: 1999 - Marcia Griffiths is 50
22: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim, Toasters at Buffalo State College
22: 1993 - Madness The Business 3CD box in slipcover, in time for Christmas
21: 1999 - Spider Nick & Maddogs 204 N. Water St in Rochester + 5 local openers
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso aged 67, also Slackers The Question out
20: 1996 - Deston Berry (Hepcat) wants a Nintendo64 interview Ogden St. Buffalo / the release of HP3
19: 1971 - Lord Sluggo Ruggiero born
18: 1989 - Milk & Cheese invite you to The Steadys, Toasters, Let's Go Bowling, Potato 5 at CBGB, Bowery L.E.S. N.Y.C. 16+!!!
17: 2015 - Slackers Mohawk
17: 1995 - Murphy's Law, Toasters, Too Hectic at Water Street Music Hall
17: 1995 - Scofflaws w/ Desorden Publico (10th anniversary) at 1900 Wall St in Caracas, Venezuela
16: 2006 - Huckleberry 585 promotion: One Night Band, The Expos (featuring Yvonne Moir), ROCsteady Allstars at Milestones
16: 2001 - Toasters, Blackouts, Mexican Cession Club at Water Street
16: 1993 - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past 2xCD out on EMI Chrysalis. B-sides and never before on CD rarities!
15: 2019 - Lord Tanamo & Friends: Festival Jump-Up 2xCD Expanded edition album unavailable on any format since 1965! DBCDD046
15: 2019 - Noble Vibes at Sticky Lips Juke Joint 9pm
15: 2019 - a new Mephiskapheles E.P., Never Born Again out!
15: 2001 - 585 becomes official; it's the first new area code in upstate NY since 1954
15: 1980 - Melody Maker "Tracking the New Selecter" cover
13: 1993 - Toasters (Skavoovee '93) at The Palace Los Angeles it's recorded for MR045CD = DIDX 021248
12: 2019 - full moon at 8:34 AM ET
11: 2019 - Tono Topnotch at 58? also PPR reissue Aggrolites Dirty Reggae in digipak CD and LP
11: 2000 - (Sat) Bim Skala Bim Water Street in support of Krinkle
11: 1999 - (Thu) Bim Skala Bim Milestones
10: 2019 - HP7 eighteen, also Sesame Street at 50
10: 2001 - R.I.P. Ken Kesey, also HP7 completion date - assemblage took 1 year
10: 1994 - Miggedys +2 Horizontal Boogie Bar, also Sesame Street at 25
9: 2019 - St Louis SKA with The Skalars sold out reunion show at the Hideout, Chicago IL
9: 2015 - Vic Ruggiero, Roarshark, Harsh Mellows at ButaPub in South Wedge, rather than Bug Jar
9: 1996 - Bob Barker & the Womanizers, Danny Down & the Syndromes, the Professionals (live debut) Riverton CC Henrietta NY
5: 2014 - Rhoda Dakar Cleaning in Another Woman's Kitchen out on MoonSka World CD 107
5: 1996 - Boston area compilation, Safe and Sound on Big Rig-Mercury; The Impression that I Get appears on it
5: 2019 - Angelo Moore at 54, so an Annette Funicello clue on Jeopardy!
2: 2019 - Skalloween w/ Mephiskapheles, Spring Heeled Jack USA, Turkey Blaster Omega at Flour City Station
2: 1994 - SKA Wednesdays at Abyss 240 South Ave hosted by Crunchy & Awkward
1: 2002 - Mustard Plug, Blackouts (5th Anniversary Show), Isotopes, Club at Water St. Rochester
Nov 2019 - Do The Dog #102 ***now a monthly 'zine*** has The Bighead, loads more. Get one now!
October
31: 2019 - Everyday is Halloween? Our 500+ song extended playlist
31: 2019 - Root Shock live Halloween show at Three Heads Brewing
31: 2003 - Pietasters/ Brandon Sausner's Molotov Cocktail and Trailer Park Mafia/ Bensin. Continental Buffalo NY
30: 1994 - Bakesys Live in Germany it's recorded
28: 1997 - Toasters Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down on Moon Records
27: 1979 - a week after The Specials self-titled record out
23: 1953 - Belinda Magnus bka Pauline Black born
20: 2014 - Dave Hahn Larry MacDonald bring Dub is a Weapon + Pandas Club at Water Street
19: 2019 - Some Ska Band, w/ Tooth at Lovin' Cup Bistro
19: 1979 - following a bidding war for Madness One Step Beyond... out on Stiff Records
18: 1997 - Ska Fever Surges front and center on this week's Billboard magazine
17: 1934 - Rico's born
15: 2017 - R.I.P. Dr Awkward, 62. A 88.5 WRUR FM reggae DJ & champion of Ska + Gasport/ Rochester/ Watertown/ Corning NY
15: 2005 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat WSMH
15: 1979 - TT-5 A Message To You Rudy with Dick Cuthell released
14: 2002 - Reel Big Fish (Scott K) reads HP7 onstage in Rochester? fresh from their tourbus fire horror CNN reported
13: 2019 - full Hunter's moon 5:08pm EST /lunacy.html
13: 2006 - Friday the 13th Pietasters FCK and The Hoboz (Avon NY) Milestones
13: 1997 - The Selecter/ Friggs/ Water Street Muisc Hall Rochester NY
13: 1979 - TT-4 On My Radio (Selecter debut single) out a week late
12: 2019 - Jump Up Records release a record number 12 tapes on Cassette Store Day '19
12: 2002 - a few of The Untouchables Cool Beginnings: Rare & Unreleased sealed at Avenue Pub Rochester NY
11: 2008 - R.I.P. Alton Ellis aged 70
10: 2019 - Abruptors CD release show Mohawk Buffalo - also Mustard Plug 8pm
10: 1998 - Pilfers, Spring Heeled Jack SUNY Oswego it's recorded for HP6
9: 2015 - a new Mephiskapheles 6 songs out
8: 1994 - Chucklehead, Miggedys at Boogie Bar - card poster by Mearns
7: 1997 - Mephiskapheles Maximum Perversion streetdate
6: 1979 - 40+ date 2Tone Tour announced in the British music press
5: 2002 - Dem call it Ska? Dave Wakeling's English Beat Montage Grille
4: 2019 - Question The Answers at 25 (released mere weeks after the Boston Police/ Green Day hatch shell Riot)
3: 2019 - Gwen Stefani at 50
2: 2019 - Sting at 68
Oct 2019 - Q Magazine UK Specials 40th Anniversary Special, out 27 Aug
Oct 2019 - Do The Dog Skazine #101 has The Selecter
Oct 1999 - Liquidator #1 from Toni Face in Madrid
Oct 1990 - Music Collector Mag #20 features 2 Tone Label, Janet Jackson
Oct 1989 - Lets Catch The Beat #3 typewritten by Chris Prete (Trojan Appreciation Society)
September
29: 1963 - Les Claypool born
28: 2019 - Hub City Stompers, Rude Boy George, wsg 5Head in Rochester $12/$15 8pm
28: 1997 - Articles, Magadog Rebound Ska Tour, Rochester NY + STL Skalars
23: 2018 - A transatlantic ska benefit compilation for Do The Dog Skazine
21: 2019 - Pittsburgh Ska and Some Die Nameless present Steel City Ska Fest 5pm $25
20: 2018 - Mephiskapheles/ The Abuptors/ Buffalo Brass Machine/ Mohawk Place Buffalo
19: 2019 - Rancid, Pennywise, English Beat at Agora Cleveland OH
17: 1940 - Winston Sparkes bka King Stitt born
16: 2000 - Toots & the Maytals, Stone Love Sound in Rochester (courtesy Salem Cigarettes)
15: 2019 - Toby and H2O return to Rochester
14: 2019 - Aquabats! (Koo Koo Kanga Roo, MC Lars) Return to Town Ballroom Buffalo $22 6pm Holy Guacamole tour
14: 2019 - Some Ska Band performs live at House of Guitars outside shell 4:30-6pm FREE
14: 2019 - Full Harvest Moon 12:35 am EST
14: 1983 - Amy Jade Winehouse born, North London UK
13: 2019 - Selecter + DJ Rhoda at Kent Stage, Kent OH
13: 2019 - 15th annual Riotfest Douglas Park Chicago IL begins
12: 2019 - Selecter + DJ Rhoda, with New Limits ONCE Ballroom, Somerville MA
10: 2019 - Jeopardy #8047 for $600 Britannica calls this 3-letter genre "Jamaica's first indigenous urban pop style"
8: 2016 - R.I.P. Prince Buster, aged 78. AP obit
8: 1960 - David Steele (English Beat, FYC) born
7: 2019 - thirty years since NO SPORTS- KING SKA CD/LP out on Unicorn!
7: 1951 - Chrissie Hynde born
6: 1997 - Planet Smashers/ Professionals/ Slush Fund/ Creepers at Mercury Theater Kenmore NY
4: 2015 - R.I.P. Rico Rodrieguez MBE, aged 80
3: 1982 - English Beat at the US Festival, its recorded for CD/DVD
3: 1948 - Arthur Kay born
1: 1983 - Mick Jones fired from the Clash
1: 1955 - Bruce Foxton born
1: 1938 - Alton Ellis, OD born. Local vinyl
1: 1979 - Sting Gordie Sumner on this week's NME with indie labels special: 2Tone, Rough Trade, Zoo, Factory, more
Sept 2019 - Do the Dog #100 features Razika, as seen here
August
30: 1939 - John Peel OBE born
30: 1953 - Sir Horace Gentleman (Stephen Graham Panter) born
30: 1974 - Aaron Barrett born
27: 2019 - hpska.com gets Mochammadov Yasserovic mention
27: 2019 - Social Distortion/ Flogging Molly/ The Devil Makes Three/ Le Butcherettes at Canalside Buffalo NY
27: 1997 - VooDoo Glowskulls/ Snapcase/ PieTasters Rochester, it's recorded for Universal Buzz Radio
27: 1981 - Pop: Britain's Ska-Based Specials by John Rockwell in the New York Times
25: 1979 - Extra Extra The Specials in Belgium, Adrian Thrills Pennie Smith on this week's NME
23: 2019 - 25 years since the release of DUB 56?!
23: 1994 - King Django at 27
22: 2019 - 30 years of Devils Night Out: MM Bosstones, Bedouin Soundclash at Anthology Rochester to capacity
22: 1989 - another summer, sound of the funky drummer? Devil's Night Out released on Taaang! Records
17: 1959 - Rhoda Dakar (Bodysnatchers, Special AKA, Madness) born
16: 1999 - Laurel Aitken Wetlands NYC (Chris Murray, NYSJE, Checkerboard Phil DeJean, +2)
15: 2019 - Full moon 12:29 UTC
10: 2019 - MichelleSka at 43
10: 2000 - Dave Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 at Water Street
7: 1983 - The Police Synchronicity tour stops Holleder Stadium Rochester NY 14615 8pm $15
6: 2019 - Bad Religion, Lawrence Arms at Anthology
3: 2019 - Bim Skala Bim/ Hub City Stompers/ Miggedys Reunion II Haunt Ithaca 15/18 music 8pm
3: 1996 - George Carlin w/ Dennis Blair Finger Lakes PAC $25.50
2: 2019 - Bim Skala Bim/ Personal Blend/ Miggedys Reunion I, Flour City Station 12/15 music 8pm
2: 2014 - Prince Buster FAB HITS cutout + Bad Religion how could hell be any worse? from FYE greece mall
1: 2019 - Aggrolites, Mike Pinto, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Badfish at Canalside Live Buffalo 5pm
Aug 2005 - Liquidator #8
Aug 1997 - One Eyed Jack #2
Aug 1992 - Marvel Comics presents Bill & Ted's #9, Evan Dorkin & Sluggo Cawley's Bim logo front and center
July
31: 2019 - King Yellowman, California Brew Haus Rochester $20, 10pm
30: 2019 - Old Firm Casuals (Lars Fredriksen & Co.) at Mohawk Place Buffalo
27: 2019 - New England Ska Summit with Bim Skala Bim, Copacetics, Hempsteadys, El Grande, Riki Rocksteady in Somerville MA 8pm $15
27: 2019 - Hypnotic Clambake Abilene
27: 2002 - Toasters Buffalo
27: 2002 - Bim Oswego Harborfest
26: 1980 - Does Malcom McLaren have the future taped? in Sounds
23: 2019 - Pilfers Buffalo (Iron Works) $18 DOS, 7p, 18+
23: 2000 - Pilfers Buffalo (Showplace Theatre)
21: 2019 - Pandemics Gone Viral tour hits Chicago IL
20: 2019 - Majestics live at Three Heads Brewing
20: 2019 - Interrupters with 311, Dirty Heads +1 more 5pm Darien Center NY
20: 1994 - Let's Go Bowling Does The Spiral live at Fox Theater Boulder CO it's recorded for greenshell cassette
20: 1969 - been fifty years since Apollo 11 and first Moonwalk ...
19: 2019 - Soul Jazz Records presents The World of Keith Haring
19: 2019 - Bryan K's birthday bash ReadJunk presents Radicsfest at Gramercy Theater NYC!
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Aitken, aged 78
16: 2019 - R.I.P. Pat Kelly aged 70
16: 2019 - full moon with a partial lunar eclipse in Capricorn, 5:38pm EDT
16: 2019 - Jerome Harris AIGA on train culture
16: 1941 - Desmond Dekker born
14: 1995 - Selecter Bim HoR at Marquee Club it's recorded
13: 2019 - Pink Floyd The Wall 1982 Little Theater 8pm
13: 2018 - Trojan 50 picture disc, also 5head at Three Heads
13: 1997 - big CNY Ska Fest (Too Hectic farewell show) Chuck's Syracuse NY starts at 5pm
12: 2019 - Derrick Morgan And His Friends, Various Artists 2xCD Expanded Edition DBCDD039 first time on CD!
10: 2017 - Skints open for 311 ArtPark Lewiston NY
10: 2000 - Locate a copy of Bim's DOJO CD 209 hits American Playhouse locally
5: 1990 - Island/ Mango present Club Ska '67 compact disc format to Japan, notes by Guy Stevens
1: 2019 - how would you celebrate International Reggae Day?
1: 1995 - "This one goes out to O.J. Simpson..." Selecter rocks Roskilde Fest Denmark it's recorded
July 2019 - Do The Dog #99 has the Aggrolites cover
June
29: 2019 - Heather Augustyn ska author, also Ithaca Reggae Fest Stewart Park! Sly & Robbie, Pandas, Medicinals $40dos
28: 2019 - Selecter, The Legendary Gigs Volume 1 (2-CD) repackages two mid nineties live shows: Old Trout and Roskilde DK
28: 2019 - Trojan Records's latest CD/LP compilation is '69 moon records
22: 2019 - Jerry Dammers join the Specials-Selecter mash-up Weston-Super-Mare!
21: 2019 - Sierra Nevada World Music Fest #26 Boonville CA has been cancelled
20: 2019 - This is Ska.de (Rosslau Ska Fest) Weekend hosted by Dr Ring Ding; 30 years Pork Pie
20: 2016 - R.I.P. Mike Cacia by Andy
20: 2000 - Toots & the Maytals WSMH
19: 2019 - The Specials ENCORE tour at the Danforth Toronto ON, 20th anniversary edition of Victoria BC Skafest Society
18: 2019 - The Specials ENCORE tour at the Danforth Toronto ON, 7pm
17: 2019 - full moon at 04:30 am (EDT)
16: 2019 - Jah Crunchy at 60
16: 1999 - Jah Crunchy at 40 • the release of HP#6 • Toasters Bug Jar 21+
14: 2019 - Friday The Wailers, with Buddahood, and Rootshock at Park Point RIT
14: 2003 - Bosstones J Vegas HP7 [Jun-2001 interview] delivery High Falls Rochester
13: 2019 - Thursday Toots and the Maytals, with Majestics, and Noble Vibes Party In The Park
12: 2019 - Five Alive (Potato 5 live Islington London) now 30 years old!
12: 2019 - Frankenska (Toasters live Islington London) now 30 years old! Fidelity reissue on BBC024
11: 2014 - Ska's the Limit in City Newspaper this week, FD has full interview with Mrs. Skannotto
8: 2018 - R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain, aged 61.. hoi polloi chef/ consult the last page of HP#8 (2003) for more
7: 2019 - National Donut Day, also The Slackers More Peculiar reissue out on 180G powder blue vinyl
3: 2017 - twelve monkeys Batman Forever? seen at 4:20pm
2: 2019 - Dr. Ring Ding 49
2: 2009 - Dr. Ring Ding 39, Rancid release #7, Let The Dominoes Fall
1: 2019 - brand new NY Ska Jazz Ensemble record out, Break Thru (Brixton Spain) and digital formats
June 2019 - Mojo #307 Lee Perry mad and Ranking Roger remembered
June 2001 - the £10.3M Trojan Sanctuary merger
May
31: 2019 - today 48 years ago José Andrés Blanco Aybar (Blanquito Man) was born in Caracas
31: 2019 - Prince Buster Dance Cleopatra Dance, Blue Elephant Holland, £14.99 this item will be released 31 May? why not pre order yours now
31: 2015 - Justin, Alex Skannotto in WBZA 98.9 FM studios Sunday Night Shakedown #468 with Frank DeBlase, 8-11pm EST
31: 2005 - The Dead 60s is the eponymous debut album by British rock band (US art yellow, tracklist different then red UK/ EU)
29: 2019 - it's The Specials Day by proclamation City of Los Angeles CA
29: 2014 - Some Ska Band marquee at Stickylips BBQ II on NYS RT 252
29: 1982 - NME has Joe Strummer cover, innards "Why I ran out on the Clash..."
28: 2019 - The Specials musical guest on ABCTV Jimmy Kimmel Live 11:35pm EST
28: 1989 - the final Operation Ivy show is also the first Green Day show, /w Crimpshrine 6pm $5 at 924 Gilman St
28: 1989 - Judge Dread top bill London Int'l Ska Fest II, at Sir George Robey + more
27: 2019 - The Toasters, Specials, Rancid, + more Punk Rock Bowling
27: 1989 - The Toasters top bill London Int'l Ska Fest II, at Sir George Robey + more
25: 2019 - Some Ska Band b-side in Fairport NY
25: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Dekker, aged 64 & 3/4
24: 2019 - Reggae when? brand new Aggrolites out
24: 2019 - Punk Rock Bowling XXI starts and runs 3 days (Las Vegas NV)
24: 2001 - MMB free LaFayette Square Buffalo NY
23: 2014 - B-Side Basterds fill Stamps Tonawanda NY 7pm
22: 2019 - Jerry Dammers is 64
19: 2006 - Ska Rules (FL's Know How) + Rachel Sinesou cover of this free weekly Rochester insider
19: 1979 - Rude Boys Don't Argue cover + hella nice Story of Ska by Johnny Copasetic in this Melody Maker
18: 2019 - full Flower Moon, 17:11 EST, also 5Head Dino BBQ 10pm, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (Rochester NY) over in Chicago IL
18: 1997 - Pietasters Main St Armory (Rochester)
18: 1993 - Don't Know How To Party out (photos by Art Cohen)
18: 1979 - SEEZ 14 Ian Dury and the Blockheads Do It Yourself [in 31+ variant sleeves] out today!
17: 2019 - Pouzza Fest '19 starts and runs 3 days (Montreal Quebec)
16: 2013 - Slack Bug Jar, it's recorded
15: 2019 - Lee Rocker 7-9pm Lilac Fest
15: 1999 - Pilfers, Metro Stylee +2 haunt Ithaca
15: 1995 - Derrick say one more chance: Dr. Ring Ding & Senior Allstar Band Dandimite out on Grover Records GRO-004 today
14: 2019 - Medicinals support Julian Marley 5-9pm Lilac Fest All Ages Free
13: 2017 - Scratch Ithaca
13: 2013 - DW English Beat Lilac Fest 38º F starts 7pm
13: 1999 - Toots & the Maytals, Morgan Heritage Ithaca NY $20 Adv.Tixx
12: 2003 - Trojan Sanctuary expanded version Maytals Monkey Man CD +slipcover
11: 2018 - Dub Store Records Japan release Ronnie Nasralla's BMN Ska & Rocksteady: Always Together 1964-68 on CD & LP
11: 1981 - R.I.P. the Honourable Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley OM, aged 36
10: 2019 - Skints Swimming Lessons
10: 2019 - Too Much Information! Planet Smashers #9, new album out today - art still by Rupert Bottenberg!
10: 1999 - yesterday's Ron commencement armbands get mention in this Democrat & Chronicle
9: 1998 - Mephiskapheles outside in the rain at R.I.T. sucked
8: 1981 - The Beat sophomore LP, Wha'ppen? on Go Feet /Arista (working title was Dance Yourself Stupid)
7: 1995 - Miggedys An Informal Gathering CD release party sunday matinee!
6: 2019 - Pete Porker at 53, Mearns at 42
6: 2011 - Bad Manners w/ Vince Fositt (Great Train Robbery) Mikey Abruptor, Tad D. at Club Infinity Williamsville NY
5: 1995 - BossTones/ Miggedys/ Allstonians at R.I.T. Arena
4: 2019 - Kentucky Derby #145, see the Dread Stakes, Longshot, etc. for more detail
4: 2019 - This is Croydon 2 Skafest on pallet stage at a brewery in PA
4: 2018 - US west coast band Monkey release #6 longplayer Intermittent Waves
4: 2004 - R.I.P. Sir Coxone Dodd, aged 72
4: 1997 - Magadog/ Professionals/ Skacho Cheese/ Verge at Penny Arcade $7, 7pm
4: 1979 - The Specials debut single Gangsters released; W Jabsco's birthday? his first appearance
4: 1979 - Arthur Kay & The Originals in the studio tracking 'Play My Record' - referring to their Ska Wars/ Warska 45
3: 2003 - Blackouts split following gig at Jillians High Falls
3: 1998 - BossTones return to Seymour Union Ballroom SUNY Brockport but we don't
3: 1989 - Primus Stanford University Broadcast, its recorded later for LP and VHS for youtube
2: 2019 - Planet Smashers new video out, also play Buffalo NY w/ Abruptors + Toybox Brigade
2: 2000 - BossTones release Pay Attention on Island Records
1: 1981 - The Specials + John Cooper Clarke support Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park (LDN) Benefit for the Unemployed, 7pm
May 2019 - Long Live Vinyl #26 thick & all about 2Tone
May 2019 - Do The Dog Skazine #98 Planet Smashers (so pretty on the cover of Tiger Beat)
May 2009 - Uncut cover story Madness
May 2002 - Reggae Nucleus has Doreen Schaeffer, Millie Small, Rayvon, more!
April
30: 2019 - R.I.P. Peter Mayhew, aged 74 (the original Chewbacca)
30: 2011 - Pietasters /HR/ Skannotto WSMH Rochester
30: 1996 - Pietasters Strapped Live out on Moon Records
29: 2019 - Ranking Roger laid to rest
28: 2019 - The Simpsons #639 surpasses Gunsmoke as scripted TV, complete with a dig at Rochester and western NY too
27: 2019 - Pietasters/ Pandemics/ SSB/ at Flour City Station, 8pm, $17 adv/ $20 DOS
27: 2019 - Hypnotic Clambake Abilene 9pm
27: 2019 - Back To The Beach 2nd annual SoCal Ska weekender
27: 2004 - Mustard Plug, Smashers Rochester
27: 1998 - Mustard Plug, LTJ Rochester
26: 2019 - worldwide premiere of skamovie.com bka Pick it Up Ska in the '90s
25: 2019 - Slackers Mohawk Buffalo
25: 2019 - larger article by Jessica Lipsky in Billboard® Re: Ska 2019
24: 2013 - Oneonta Ska Society begins
20: 2019 - Personal Blend newest release Heavy Currents out
19: 2019 - Full Pink Moon, 7:12 am EST, also new Buck O' Nine [album #9] released by Cleopatra Records, FunDayMental
19: 2014 - JB? this year #RSD2014 has Specials vinyl on offer, limited to 1000?
19: 2006 - R.I.P. Lord Tanamo, aged 81
19: 1997 - final Miggedys show is SUNY Geneseo's annual Earth Day Fest; Oyer reports it as "the worst way to go"
19: 1980 - what we've got here is Strother Martin & The Specials on Saturday Night Live
19: 1969 - D DEKKER in Melody Maker
18: 2019 - London International Ska Festival #31 (Easter Weekend) kicks off and runs four days
18: 2013 - Record Store Day has Trojan Rude Boy, Cleopatra UTs, and an Asbestos Rec Bosstone reissue
18: 1987 - Ska Nite at the Soul Shack w/ Upbeats & No Doubt $5 1123 Vine Hollywood CA. 10pm call Bob for details (213) 292-7589
15: 2004 - R.I.P. Phyllis Dillon, aged 59
15: 1997 - Twenty-Eight Teeth out on TVT Records while the band was touring the USA with Face To Face
15: 1996 - (Mon) Two Just Men Present split-fountain letterpress poster $10 gets you in Skatalites + Too Hectic Haunt Ithaca roots event
14: 2006 - chance impromptu lunch with radioland's Dr. Awkward (RIP) Paola's Burrito Place
14: 2002 - ND Rocksteady tour stops Ithaca NY
14: 1983 - (Thu) English Beat w/ R.E.M. at Buffalo State gymnasium
13: 2019 - Majestics at Three Heads Brewing
13: 2019 - Medicinals welcome Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra to Photo City Rochester 9pm
13: 2019 - JumpUp green vinyl Skatalites 1996 Greetings From Skamania for #RSD2019, a Specials single 1/750, much more!
13: 1983 - (Weds) English Beat w/ R.E.M. Alexander Palestra
12: 1992 - Special Beat, w/Bakesys Midday Joggers at T&C2 London
12: 1986 - Ramones Alexander Palestra (University of Rochester)
11: 2019 - what's the 411? Neville Euton Staple at 64
10: 2019 - Brian Setzer 60
10: 1982 - Dave Wakeling New Musical Express the beat bounce back cover story
9: 2019 - both moobaks and Matthew Alan Austin [@mattobscure] turn 40 today
7: 1980 - Jay Cocks meets the Specials in Time
6: 2018 - Clash Version Rockers, fourth in a series by Phoenix City All Stars, is out today
5: 2019 - happen upon a 50 years reissue? it's The Upsetters Clint Eastwood twofer
5: 2012 - R.I.P. Jim Marshall, Lord of Loud, aged 88
4: 2010 - sizeable Specials reunion article in New York Times
3: 2004 - Trump/ Toots/ Bootsy on SNL #561
1: 2019 - Jesse Michaels turns 50... make ya feel old Jeff?
1: 2001 - multi Ska band matinee Water St Music Hall but no one came.
Apr 2019 - Goldmine has a Claypool-Lennon cover
Apr 2018 - Long Live Vinyl #13 has 50 Years of Trojan Records polybagged!
Apr 2003 - Liquidator #6 has Lee Scratch Perry
Apr 1996 - Pittsford NY Ska coverage makes it in Rude #48
Apr 1994 - Tower Records' Pulse blurb on definition of Sound: Ska
March
31: 2019 - dayglo orange signage for Hi Fi Needledrop's semi-annual Record Fair at Historic German House Theatre
31: 1995 - dayglo orange signage for Toasters Ithaca NY
30: 2019 - Batman celebrates 80, also Ranking Roger Times obit in print
29: 2019 - more power by the hour? Trojan Records CD reissues x5
29: 2018 - original air date S01 E08 APBio NBC Pietasters 9:30 Patton Oswalt goes SKA
29: 1980 - Showing the Beat the Beat: Steve Barrow talks Laurel Aitken in this week's Black Echoes
28: 2019 - 40 years since the Pennsylvania Meltdown, Three Mile Island
27: 2019 - Derrick Morgan, conquering ruler is 79
26: 2019 - R.I.P. Ranking Roger Charlery, aged 56. (btw Rahm Emmanuel sez 'Full Stop' at today's press conference)
26: 2019 - The Specials impact RSS readers
26: 2003 - Rocksteady 7 returns to Rochester
25: 2003 - Still Standing 4xCD compilation on Megalith/ Jump Up Records in time for Las Vegas Festival
24: 2019 - Interrupters +2 Town Ballroom Buffalo NY sold out $25-30
24: 1999 - look Bim Skala Bim in City
24: 1998 - Specials new disc Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent out MCA Records, ruff art by FS Fairey?!
23: 1996 - Coolie Ranx + Toasters, Too Hectic interview for HP at Davis Gym Alfred University
23: 1989 - 3 Ska Explosion videos filmed at the London Astoria, also Skankin' 'Round The World Vol 2 out - sleevenotes by Bilko Wells
22: 2002 - Bouncing Souls, Pietasters +2 Water Street Rochester 7pm
22: 1998 - Professionals w/ Jeff Contray of SYR.EDU fame
20: 2019 - Lee Perry celebrates 83, also full worm moon 9:43pm
19: 2019 - Terry Hall is 60, Jon Barra is 42
18: 2017 - R.I.P. Chuck Berry, aged 90
17: 1995 - Toasters Rochester HBB
17: 1979 - Sister Denise starts Reggae Sounds (WITR FM radio) Noon-2pm; broadcast runs weekly for the next 40+ years
16: 2019 - Some Ska Band 8-11pm bside Lift Bridge Ln Fairport
16: 2019 - R.I.P. Dick Dale, aged 81

16: 1999 - Clash tribute EPIC 69106 featuring the usual suspects
15: 2019 - add Downtowners PHZA-65 to Unicorn site, via dublinsax
13: 2003 - Thursday/ Slackers/ Milestones/ $5
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Judge Dread
12: 1982 - The Jam #6 The Gift, their final album out
12: 1932 - Don Drummond born
9: 1991 - It's a Ska Festival when Scofflaws, Steadys, Mephiskapheles descend upon Space at Chase 3rd Avenue, NYC, 9pm
9: 1965 - Coolie Ranx born
8: 2019 - Doctor Bird Cherry Red out with a Derrick Morgan double CD!
8: 2019 - International Women's Day
8: 1931 - Lloyd Knibb born
4: 2019 - R.I.P. Keith Flint, Firestarter, aged 49. Hear the Prodigy Ghost Town on Versions Galore
2: 2019 - W goes 44, Toasters/ Pilfers/ Personal Blend at Flour City Station Rochester NY 8pm $17/$20 DOS, or Flogging Molly at Armory
2: 1997 - Professionals, Danny Down, Sinker, Last Retail, Discern at Penny Arcade $5
1: 2019 - DCE Bechle now 40
March 2019 - Do The Dog #96 has Le Birrette
February
28: 1993 - WBER presents Bad Manners w/ Scofflaws Boogie Bar Rochester $6/$8, 18+, 9pm.. scroll down for letterpress poster
28: 1980 - Selecter live Guildhall, Portsmouth recorded (this footage later used in Dance Craze)
27: 2006 - Pietasters Milestones
24: 2019 - Wailers, Medicinals at Haunt Ithaca NY by Dan Smalls
23: 2018 - Bananarama Toronto (Danforth Music Hall) in February thaw
22: 2019 - Vive Le Rock #61 celebrates 40 years of 2-Tone with three collector covers: The Beat, The Selecter, The Specials
22: 2019 - South of Reality
22: 2019 - DO THE REGGAE this year's doppel recompilation of Skinhead Reggae in the Spirit of '69 due to hit the town
21: 2019 - R.I.P. Peter Tork, keys/ bass for Monkees, aged 77
21: 2012 - Toasters Rochester Dubland Ug
19: 2019 - full snow moon
17: 2015 - hpska.com gets @OneontaSkaSociety mention
16: 2018 - late 70s comic Black Panther now a major motion picture, see boss scorcha Sir Collins '69 for more
16: 2000 - Whirty City Newspaper Pressure Cooker Empire Brewing Lager Rhythms Series
15: 1981 - Dance Craze film about 2Tone finally out in UK theatres
14: 2019 - all about The Abruptors (Buffalo NY) on RSS
13: 2000 - Maude Flanders killed by flying t-shirt "I'm really sorry to hear that. We just lost our drummer to a Pentecostal ska band"
12: 2019 - Jump Up and Shout as Chuck Wren celebrates 49
11: 2015 - hoi polloi on Jeopardy
11: 1994 - Miggedys HBB
11: 1989 - The Toasters first Chicago appearance main floor Medusa's 3257 N Sheffield! 7:30p CST
10: 2019 - Toasters, Scotch Bonnets +2 @924 Gilman Street
10: 1995 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca, it's recorded 90 min
10: 1994 - Skaboom! + Recriminations MRO13 CD nineties compile w/ graphic blandishment by Andres 'Blanquito Man' Chango RIP
9: 2019 - ain't it Dandy?! DBCDD020 reggae in your jeggae Cherry Red/ Doctor Bird 4 albums on 2CD Downtown collection out
9: 2019 - the first epic ska fest of the year, and who wouldn't want to live in SkaLAnd? DT Los Angeles CA
9: 1989 - DS Hillyard debuts on vinyl (Donkey Show)
9: 1964 - Beatles to USA television; some say the 2nd half of the 20th century starts here
8: 2019 - Specials new record reaches No.1 on British charts, been 37 years since
8: 2019 - Nicky Welsh is claiming a 30th anniversary reissue of King Hammond's Revolution '70!?
7: 2019 - internationalclashday.com (sixth annual), also ModZines new tome by Eddie Piller + Steve Rowland ships today
7: 1990 - Primus Frizzle Fry out
7: 1983 - Fun Boy Three #2, Waiting produced by David Bryne
6: 1999 - HP#6's Laurel Aitken interview: many questions eerily similar to those found on side four of PHZD-45 (1989) too
6: 1945 - Bob Marley born
5: 1999 - last Penn State Uni Ska Fest HUB Ballroom, State College PA rips off Mad Dogs and Englishmen graphics.. We rent a van and go
4: 2019 - Chinese New Year (Pig), also Prospero writes Meph666/ Ska Fourth Wave in The Economist
2: 2019 - I got you babe? Groundhog predicts an early spring whatever that means
2: 2019 - Aimee Interrupter is 37
2: 2004 - missing 2nd Miggedys CD (tbr MR103) sees the light of day
2: 1995 - R.I.P. Fred Perry, aged 85
1: 2019 - Brand new studio album by The Specials Encore out now – review by RSS too.
Feb 2019 - Do The Dog #95 Specials cover
Feb 1995 - Skinhead Times #16 (farewell issue)
Feb 1980 - Black Music and Jazz Review has vhtf The Specials Rip-Off/ Revival/ Revolution cover
Winter 89-90 - The Upsetter Issue Number 1 Deluxe Special Edition
January 2019
31: 2019 - Encore is Alexis Petridis album of the week in The Guardian
31: 2012 - R.I.P. King Stitt, aged 71
31: 1997 - Jeremy Myers two day PSU fest, starts 6:30p with 15 bands, surely one of the biggest ska shows ever in PA state history
29: 2019 - Int'l Blastbeat Day, also Ska JoE Hanson from the OC Ska dotcom turns 40
29: 1990 - Ian McCann (NME) favorable mention of Unicorn PHZA-49, No Sports' King Ska
28: 2019 - The Big Issue #1343 is Taking the Specials back to Ghost Town with augmented reality
28: 1941 - King Tubby born
26: 2019 - Rudeboy: The Neville Staple Band live at The Garage, London UK
26: 2019 - RE: Flamingo Magazine
26: 1980 - The Specials with The Police live at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana it's recorded
25: 2019 - BeatOfficial Public Confidential out DMF Records UK
25: 2019 - 94.1 FM the zone Rover's Hangover presents The Interrupters at Armory Rochester NY $45, also Braces clue on Jeopardy
25: 2001 - wednesday night Dave Wakeling interview (Ithaca NY) is our best yet
25: 1980 - Specials at Hurrah NYC/ review by Fred Schruers appears 2 months later in Rolling Stone #313
23: 2019 - City Newpaper Frantic FD reviews Some Ska Band in print 40,000? times
21: 2019
- Lloyd Bradley is 64, Darren Reggae spins 45
21: 2019 - Super Blood Full Wolf Moon reaches its peak at 12:16 A.M. EST
20: 2010 - R.I.P. Lynn Taitt, aged 75
17: 2019 - The Busters' Ruder Than Rude (Unicorn issue matrix PHZA-27) is 30 years old today!
16: 2014 - Toasters world tour kickoff starts at Bug Jar
15: 2019 - Some Ska Band CD release Record Archive happy hour 6-8pm
15: 1999 - Steve Pietaster silver platform boots Water St
14: 2017 - Pietasters, Abruptors IronWorks Buffalo $20
13: 2018 - Clinton Fearon is 67 today
11: 2019 - The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection: Various, 4 Original LPs on 2CDs?!?
11: 1997 - Go Go Rays/ Lettuce Boy/ Creepers/ Too Hectic/ Miggedys at Mercury Theatre Buffalo
9: 2006 - hpska.com begins
9: 2001 - itunes.com begins
9: 1996 - Hoi Polloi 'zine begins with Dan MacAllister at a NYS 18 & 104 diner
4: 1979 - Blondie Heart of Glass single out
1: 2019 - Jeopardy #7897 features Making The Zine category
Jan 2019 - Record Collector #488 Clash cover
Jan 2019 - Mojo #302 Kate Bush cover, Specials 40th anniversary details What Goes On The Rude Abides
Jan 2018 - Mojo #290 The Jam cover, Ken Boothe's sunday morning record, more!
Jan 2000 - John South's Time Longer Than Rope #2 Derrick Morgan cover
Jan 1969 - Prince Buster's Record Shack ad specialty calendar pad
December
31: 2018 - Bad Manners at 100 Club LDN
30: 2018 - Hometown Throwdown (Bosstones, Color Killer) matinee 4pm
29: 2018 - Hometown Throwdown (Bosstones, Bedouin Soundclash, RWW)
28: 2018 - Hometown Throwdown (Bosstones, Aggrolites, Stray Bullets)
27: 2012 - R.I.P. Lloyd Charmers
25: 2018 - because it's Christmas time again...
23: 2018 - Chas meets GDC on RSS
22: 2018 - 'cold moon' will be the longest full moon in nearly a decade!
22: 2002 - Rollem, Mellor... R.I.P. Joe Strummer, aged 50
21: 2018 - Slackers return to the Sinclair Boston MA
21: 2005 - Dead 60s + Space Invader Dub 2CD set out on Sony Music Japan
18: 1999 - R.I.P. Joe Higgs, aged 59
18: 1989 - Schmadan Curling presents Christmas Ska (6 band fest + Watford Jon spins) at Electric Ballroom Camden LDN
13: 2010 - #6041, tonight's double JEOPARDY triple stumper mentions the Specials and 2Tone for $2000
9: 1942 - Leonard Dillon (The Ethiopian) born Portland Parish Jamaica WI
8: 2018 - the Honourable Frederick Nathaniel 'Toots' Hibbert OJ is 76 today
8: 1987 - Magnus Englund & Lena Högberg present... Baby Snakes Impudent Reptiles E.P. on Unicorn Records matrix PHZA-15
8: 1979 - The Beat makes its vinyl debut just like Smokey Robinson's Pagliacci did, TT-6A, TT-6B
7: 2018 - Derrick Morgan In London (1969 mono Pama Economy LP) reissue on CD by Burning Sounds UK
7: 2018 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra 21st album out, today released in North America; it's Glorious
7: 2018 - Akasha address immigration and discrimination on Mother of Exiles, out today!
7: 2018 - Slackers, Aggrolites, Viernes 13 tour hits L.A.
6: 2018 - R.I.P. Pete Shelley, aged 63
4: 2018 - The Trojans Top Hits (CD) Gaz's Cat CDGAZ 020
4: 2011 - PLS (@skapunkdaily) receives his HP7 ebay win
3: 2018 - Prince Buster/ Various Let's Go To The Dance (CD) Rock A Shaka Japan Cat DBCD 001
1: 2018 - Auckland Ska Festival NZ
Dec 2011 - Record Collector #395 gotta cover feature 2Tone: a Chequered History, also The Fall, Ethiopians, INXS, more
Dez 2006 - Big Shot #2 (Germany) has Kazuo, Aggrolites, Wail'm Soul'M, Four Tops, much more
November
30: 1997 - Pilfers Penny Arcade matinee
29: 2018 - R.I.P. Bleecker Bob, bowery empresario, aged 75
29: 2018 - (Thu) Big D and the Kids Table, Abruptors + at Mohawk Place 7pm
29: 2013 - 10:25 PM GMT during Esperanza's set, eight fatalities at Clutha Pub (Glasgow) when police helicopter crashes through roof?!
29: 1996 - (Fri) Big D and the Kids Table at TT the Bears Cambridge MA
26: 2000 - Slackers Rochester
24: 2018 - Max Romeo is 74
23: 2018 - Marcia Griffiths is 69, also Some Ska Band CD release? b-side Fairport NY
23: 2018 - full beaver moon 12:39am EST, also Chas n' Heather go '64 World's Fair on RSS
22: 2018 - Skamouth Fest begins!
22: 2018 - Thanksgiving! two tongue and the start of the 10th Annual Montreal Ska Fest
22: 2000 - Avex Trax Justa Record (Japan) presents Trojan oldies on their compilation Skinhead Reggae
21: 1999 - Spider Nick & Maddogs Rochester
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso aged 67, also Slackers The Question out
19: 2018 - Lord Sluggo Ruggiero is 47
18: 2018 - Vic Rice in Antwerp (Ska-ntwerpen Festival)
17: 2015 - Slackers Mohawk
16: 2012 - Pat Kelly + Stranger Cole, more at Jamaican Oldies Weekend Chicago Jump Up, art by ChemaSkandal
16: 2001 - Toasters Rochester & This Gun for Hire 1990 – Bucket sez their 'blue period record'
16: 1989 - Laurel Aitken Sally Brown maxi 12" out on Unicorn PHZA-54 today; art by Steve Friel
15: 2018 - The Wailers w/ Medicinals Anthology Rochester
15: 1980 - Melody Maker: Tracking the New Selecter
14: 2018 - Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records 86 mins screening SVA Theatre NYC 9:15 PM sharp
13: 2018 - that 1944 pulp mystery novel (origin of This Gun for Hire cover gangster) arrives, mint shape
12: 2018 - R.I.P. Stan Lee, aged 95. Play NYSJE's Arachnid for more
10: 2001 - wowo HP7 is completed
10: 1978 - End of the Trail? Clash #2 Give 'Em Enough Rope out today
9: 2015 - Vic Ruggiero, Roarshark, Harsh Mellows at ButaPub in South Wedge $5 not Bug Jar
5: 2018 - Duff Guy turns 52
2: 2018 - Jimmy Kimmel Live! will re-air MMB's 10/23 performance tonight, Friday 11:35p on ABC-TV
1: 2002 - Mustard Plug, Blackouts, Isotopes +1 Club at Water St
Nov 2018 - Do The Dog Skazine #93 ***now a monthly publication*** has Megative, loads more. Get one now!
Nov 2011 - Juxtapoz presents its Pushead Curated issue
Nov 1993 - PLAID #1 debut issue with Bowie, Bosstones, Bryan Ferry
October
31: 2018 - Halloween Wednesday; 500 song extended playlist here
30: 1989 - King Hammond Revolution '70 anticipated out on Buster Bloodvessel Blue Beat BBLP008 resurrection
30: 1950 - Mark Foggo born in Liverpool England
28: 1993 - Bad Brains/ Prong/ Barkmarket Rochester - pulp cutting by Jeff Spevak
27: 1995 - The Sound of New York? Yes, Ska in the NYT
27: 1979 - Specials out with A Message To You Rudy/ Nite Klub TT-5 on 45.. Paper vs. Injection
26: 2018 - Charles interviews! Don Letts on RSS
25: 2008 - R.I.P. Toño Quirazco, aged 73
24: 2018 - full moon (Hunter's Moon) 12:45p EST
23: 2018 - MMB perform "Wonderful Day For the Race" and "The Constant" on Kimmel
23: 2002 - King Nabe from Club Ska Tokyo releases Ska Revolution compilation on east/west JP
23: 1996 - Mephiskapheles Showplace Buffalo
23: 1953 - Pauline Black born
22: 1994 - theSkasylum presents Penn State U Skank '94: JC Superska, Slackers, SHJ, Agent 99, Mephiskapheles
21: 1993 - Bosstones break floor HBB
20: 2018 - Funtime Presents Reel Big Fish at Anthology 336 East Ave Rochester NY
20: 1994 - Skatalites Hi Bop Ska ships
19: 2018 - Back to Back to Black Amy Winehouse tribute FnW ROC w/s/g The Big Takeover 18+, 8pm
19: 1994 - Rico at 60, also Skavoovee '94 (Toasters/ Skaflaws/ Pie tasters) at AXIS Landsdowne Street Boston
17: 1989 - California Skaquake! 5:04pm PST Loma Prieta aka 'World Series earthquake'
17: 1934 - Emmanuel 'Rico' Rodrieguez born
16: 2008 - Alton Ellis obit NYT
15: 2017 - R.I.P. Dr Awkward, 62. A 88.5 WRUR FM reggae DJ & champion of all Ska + Gasport/ Rochester/ Watertown/ Corning NY
15: 2005 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat WSMH Rochester
14: 2018 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat Haunt Ithaca
14: 2002 - Reel Big Fish in Rochester (fresh from a tourbus fire horror)
13: 2018 - Jump Up Records again releases ska tapes for CSD '18
13: 2018 - 50th Anniversary screening Night of The Living Dead Little Theatre
13: 1979 - New in bag: TT4 bka hot new Selecter single On My Radio b/w Too Much Pressure
10: 2018 - decades since Pilfers SUNY Oswego?!
10: 2008 - R.I.P. Alton Ellis, aged 70
9: 2015 - a new Mephiskapheles 6 songs out
9: 1993 - Steady Earnest, w/ Gangster Fun HBB Rochester
6: 2018 - Millicent Dolly May Small turns 72
6: 2016 - Jump Up Records rescue Rude Guest in Chicago Reader
5: 2002 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat Montage Grille
2: 2007 - Shane Meadows This is England screens (w/ Al Barry & Cimarons Morning Sun) Little; trainspot for chrono errors!
1: 1986 - Drexel Univ Student Program Assoc presents Serious Ska! kick-off dance w/ Toasters, $1 at The Armory
Oct 1997 - big NYC ska band Slackers cram the cover of Do The Dog #6
Oct 1996 - Moon Skazette DM bootprint version
September
29: 2018 - Rootshock w/Bill Eppel at 3HB, 186 Atlantic Av Rochester NY
29: 2018 - MM Bosstones, Sheer Terror, Killing Time play Jimmy G Benefit Tompkins Square Park NYC
28: 1964 - The Real Jamaica Ska [BN 26119] Epic Recs USA MONAURAL by Curtis Mayfield. Tracks jumbled on compact discs 1993, 2001
27: 2018 - The Medicinals, Barika FnW Roc 8pm $7
27: 2018 - Stirring Up Some Ska: The Original Sound of UK Club Land disc out on Jasmine UK [JASCD1040] tomorrow!
27: 2008 - Negative Image Scooter Club Rally in Webster Park Campground
26: 1980 - second Madness album, Absolutely, hits shops today
25: 2017 - Florian Hardwig meets Judge Dread?!
25: 1990 - Ska Parade (SP Radio One) begins, its first broadcast on UCLA radio
25: 1985 - this is a trip! Brett meets UB40 (w/ Untouchables) Palace Theatre, New Haven CT
24: 2018 - full harvest moon 10:53pm
24: 2005 - cut this the first time
24: 1981 - Peter Tosh at Triangle Theater Rochester NY
23: 1994 - Pulp Fiction is the new movie by Quentin Tarantino
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian Oster, aged 30
21: 1999 - Pilfers 2nd, Chawalaleng out
20: 2018 - Mephiskapheles +2 return to Mohawk Buffalo 8pm $12
20: 1988 - Bad Manners at the DNA Lounge SF CA
18: 2003 - Town of Irondequoit proclamation states this be House of Guitars Day
14: 2018 - Florence landfall Wrightsville Beach NC 7:15 am EST; see the M. Foggo tune 'Hurricane' for more detail
13: 2018 - $100 LPs? a conversation with John Cusack + Say Anything Fishbone '88 tee screening Kodak Center Rochester
13: 1988 - Fishbone returns with dayglo orange hype Truth and Soul on Columbia Records
8: 2018 - Dan E at 40, also Pilfers, El Grande, + SSB at Funken Waffles Rochester NY 9pm $15 DOS tear here
7: 2018 - Pietasters, Crombies, Boomtown United, Chuck Wren at Beat Kitchen (Chicago) 8pm 21+
7: 2018 - The Pioneers out with a twofer on Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red UK
6: 2018 - Big Macs Beware: Buster Doug Trendle Bloodvessel turns 60 today
6: 1997 - Montreal Ska-Kings Return/ Planet Smashers Mercury Theatre Military Rd Buffalo +3, 6pm $5
3: 1948 - South London Boy: Arthur Kay Kitchener born/ turns 70 today
1: 1979 - Alton Ellis turns 41, also the 2Tone record label in the NME today
Sept 2018 - Mojo #298 w/ Wellah, Prince, a Trojan Records 50th Anniversary covermount CD, Jon Natchez TWOD, much more!
Sept 2018 - Do The Dog #91 again featuring Abruptors (Buffalo NY's own) this time they've the cover!
Sept 2017 - Record Collector #470, We Are The Mods special
Sept 1999 - On Target 004 cover Mani from Stone Roses + the Toasters
August
31: 2018 - long-awaited Putumayo Int'l compilation Ska Around The World CD out (Batavia NY)
31: 2018 - LPN in NYC (Los Pies Negros - Puerto Rican Ska) come to Brooklyn Bazaar 7pm $30
30: 2018 - old firm casual bastard Lars Fredriksen is 47
30: 2018 - Aaron Barrett, voice of Reel Big Fish and last remaining original member, turns 44
28: 2007 - Toots & Maytals new Light Your Light is produced by Rochester's Mike Cacia
27: 2016 - R.I.P. Bones FUA WPB KOMS MVP RR HI, aged 36 (he may be the reason we never finished HP 'zine #9?)
27: 2003 - Dave Cross (RIP) Lee Perry Cutting Razor - inna City Newspaper
26: 2018 - full sturgeon moon 7:56am
25: 2018 - MassConcerts The Cranking & Skanking Fest openair in Worcester MA!!!
25: 2018 - Slackers annual Booze Cruise
25: 2018 - Toasters (w/ Cavo cameo) Oreskaband +4 at the Hong Kong Int'l Ska Fest
23: 2007 - Ben Altom again with Ska Weekend Knoxville TN - free weekly Metro Pulse article by Jack Renfro
23: 1997 - MassConcerts New England Skafest I
19: 2018 - Fishbone, Oxymorrons, Perfect Thyroid, Pandemics, Lousekateers at Chance Theater $20 Poughkeepsie NY
17: 2018 - Vive Le Rock #56 punky reggae party with The Clash, Ruts, SLF, Beat, Selecter get yours now
17: 2018 - Bosstones Canalside Buffalo $5
17: 1989 - Laurel Aitken Live '89 at Gaz Rockin Blues Soho it's recorded for Unicorn videocassette
16: 2018 - Adam, Charles, dragondictation chat with Coolie Ranx over on RSS!
16: 2018 - R.I.P. Aretha Franklin, aka The Queen of Soul, aged 76
16: 2018 - R.I.P. Count Prince Miller, aged 84
16: 1977 - R.I.P. Elvis Presley, aka The King, aged 42
15: 2018 - Mephiskapheles free Norman OK
15: 2018 - get the new MOJO #298 with Paul Weller cover and Trojan covermount CD (September '18 issue)
12: 2018 - Derrick Morgan, Miss Megoo, Ruff Cutt Band at Jazz Cafe London
12: 1964 - Millie Small Day at NY World's Fair
10: 2018 - Michelle Ska is 42, also Desmond Dekker + Aces's Action / Intensified reissued on 2fer1 CD Doctor Bird UK
10: 2018 - fka CDTRL383 Soul of Jamaica / Here Comes the Duke reissued on 2fer1 CD Doctor Bird UK
10: 2000 - DS Hillyard brings his Rocksteady 7 to Water St Music Hall
9: 2012 - BossTones free in Buffalo Square
8: 1988 - Deltones record LP Nana Choc Choc in Paris with Dieter Marchand Boucherie Productions. Licensed to Unicorn later
6: 1988 - Tompkins Square Park Riot NYC
4: 2018 - TP Moughan at 40
2: 2018 - Bucket at 63
1: 2018 - Hempsteadys long-awaited Séance! Séance! out today
Aug 2003 - AP #181 Monkey & mega Still Standing compilation innards
Aug 1997 - AP #109 Mighty Mighty Bosstones cover - this photo is also used on their 2005 Universal Music greatest hits compilation
Aug 1983 - Twist #2 (Roger and The Clash ago talk) from ska mod Dave Lumian
July
28: 2007 - Aggrolites Brian Dixon Buffalo NY
28: 1998 - Specials Neville Staple Buffalo NY
28: 1998 - Lint exclaims "Django my boy!"
28: 1979 - Special AKA Gangsters enters UK chart (in for 12 weeks, peaking at #6)
27: 2018 - full moon 4:20pm EST (for about 103 minutes the longest 'blood moon' in history)
26: 2018 - Interrupters Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC TV
26: 2002 - that green CD-R mix tho
26: 1968 - TR601 Brother Dan All-Stars
25: 2018 - Don Letts DJ set at Le Belmont (4483 St. Laurent Blvd.) Montreal PQ!!!
25: 2018 - Toots & The Maytals Jimmy Fallon NBC TV
25: 2018 - Interrupters (final VWT Darien Lake) Corfu, NY
23: 2011 - R.I.P. AJ Winehouse, aged 27
23: 2004 - roadtrip Jump Up Records 10th Anniversary Weekender, Bottom Lounge Chicago
23: 2000 - Pilfers +3, Showplace Theatre 7pm it's videocorded
22: 2018 - cue ominous music: skamovie.com gets 277% funded
21: 1971 - Friday 'Taki 183 spawns Pen Pals' in NY Times
20: 2018 - Surfragettes Hi-Risers Lux Lounge 10pm $5
20: 2018 - The Story Of Trojan Records hardback square coffee table book out today £30
20: 1994 - Let's Go Bowling Does The Spiral live at Fox Theater Boulder CO greenshell cassette
20: 1969 - we're on a space race baby
19: 2018 - Toots & The Maytals 9:30pm Infield at Grassroots Fest Trumansburg NY
19: 2018 - Wailers return to Party In the Park Rochester, $5, 6pm
19: 1995 - As if! Paul Rudd in Clueless (Amy Heckerling directs the Bosstones)
18: 2018 - Alex Désert is 50
18: 2006 - Alex Désert is 38, also Trojan Motor City Reggae 3CD boxset out
18: 1983 - Alex Désert (Hepcat) is 15
17: 2018 - add PHZA-25, The Risk Bitter Sweet
17: 2015 - As if! Paul Rudd in Ant-Man
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Aitken, aged 78
17: 1985 - Fishbone's debut NYC performance is at Irving Place
17: 1983 - Skatalites 20th reunion the double live Stretching Out captured at Blue Monk Jazz Gallery (Kingston JA) taped
16: 1995 - Miggedys, Skavoovie & Epitones, but no SHJ at newly-renovated WSMH Rochester
16: 1941 - Desmond Dekker born
15: 2018 - France wins the World Cup Final 4 -2 vs Croatia
15: 2018 - Sweet handful from the Avon flea, Livingston County
15: 2008 - Ska Exposed, a Phoenix J. Bay (Unicorn photog) exhibit down in London subway!
15: 1990 - Goldenvoice presents No Doubt, LGB, Skankin Pickle, Ska Boom (UK) Upbeats
14: 1995 - Bim, Selecter, House Of Rhythm concert-flexi Marquee (London); Fri 14/7/95 Dojo – DO SKA 1 Vinyl 7" Ltd Ed Promo
13: 2018 - Maytals Monkey Man / From The Roots reissued on Doctor Bird CD as a 2fer1
13: 2018 - Trojan 50 picture disc, also 5head at 3Heads
13: 1997 - a big CNY Ska Fest (Too Hectic farewell show) Chuck's Syracuse NY starts at 5pm
6: 2018 - As if! Paul Rudd in Ant-Man Vs the Wasp
5: 2018 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad party at the park Rochester NY
5: 1996 - L.A. Life weekend section cover feature Van Nuys Hippos
4: 2018 - Leggo Skanga? Rupert Lloyd Rupie Edwards is 73
4: 1998 - Las Vegas Skinhead Murders/ R.I.P. Lin Newborn, Dan Shirsty
3: 2001 - T-Leaf Records of Bromley UK has apparently gone out of business
2: 1998 - new Rancid disc Life Won't Wait has the hooligans
1: 2018 - International Reggae Day!
July 2000 - Record Collector #251 has Zappa, Zep, Trojan Records, more
July 1996 - Son of Skam #6
July 1995 - Denver Skabeat
July 1981 - In Touch #11 Roger Wakeling Beat Fighting Man saddle-stitched newsprint
June
30: 2005 - R.I.P. Clancy Eccles, aged 64
29: 2018 - brand new Interrupters out on Hellcat with Ken Lazarus 1970 today
29: 2002 - Blackouts, General Rudie's return, + Amy Ryan Operatives Club Water St., Esler pool party to follow inna 14615
28: 2018 - full strawberry moon
28: 1997 - Gather 'round for some culture: Carson Daly hosts MTV's Skaturday
24: 2018 - Sierra Nevada World Music Fest (25th annual)
23: 2018 - Hub City Stompers +2 Mohawk Buffalo
23: 2018 - Brian Setzer Rockabilly Riot East & Chestnut Rochester Jazzfest free show
22: 2018 - Ithaca Reggae Fest weekend
22: 2018 - DW English Beat at Underground Arts Philadelphia PA
21: 2018 - "...I wanna be a rude boy, like my dad" the AMFS screening of Sid & Nancy (1986) at MAG 6:30pm
20: 2000 - Toots & the Maytals WSMH Rochester
20: 1995 - a long overdue reply
18: 2018 - Angel City Records new compilation Birth of the Fourth Wave of Ska = mostly reggae
18: 1998 - Justin Hinds from Jamaica with Reggae brings it to Milestones Rochester (with Star Trek TMP font!)
18: 1997 - Bosstones perform their hitsong Impression on the David Letterman show
16: 1999 - HP6 out (Toasters Bug Jar)
158: 2018 - Toasters, Mustard Plug both return to the Mohawk $15adv
15: 2018 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat super long-awaited crowdfund Here We Go Love out US merchants; art by hunt!
15: 2018 - Bosstones CD/ LP #10 While We’re At It, is their first album since 6 DEC 11
14: 2017 - Toasters, Black Irish Texas, +1 Mohawk
14: 2007 - Aggrolites Reggae Hit L.A. barbecue music getsa two star review in RS#1028
14: 2003 - Bosstones J Vegas HP7 interview delivery High Falls Rochester
13: 2018 - Wild coincidence? rec'd Anders EU Rockabilly compilation same day Frantic FD interviews B Setzer City weekly
12: 1997 - Ska is Mighty Hot page 32 Rolling Stone #762
12: 1989 - Frankenska recorded live Islington, in London town if you know what I mean
8: 2018 - Doctor Bird Cherry Red records reissue the expanded Harry J Liquidator
8: 2018 - Doctor Bird Cherry Red records reissue the expanded Dave & Ansel Double Barrel
8: 2018 - R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain, aged 61.. hoi polloi chef/ see the last page of HP8 (2003) for more
6: 2001 - Bosstones J Vegas HP7 interview
5: 2018 - it's announced new Trojan Records documentary out this year!
4: 2010 - Steakouts make live debut Montage Music Hall
3: 2017 - Some Ska Band annual Thirsty's Pittsford 8-10p
3: 2003 - Planet Smashers #5 document Mighty
2: 2018 - Some Ska Band annual Thirsty's Pittsford 5-7p
1: 2018 - Camp Punk in Drublic Festival
1: 2018 - National Donut Day, also Buddahood Lux Lounge (w/ record 250+ paid crowd) 10pm
June 2018 - Vive Le Rock #54 - Eugene Butcher/ Big Cheese presents John Lydon cover, interview with Dave Wakeling!
June 2018 - Do The Dog Skazine #90 has Spitfires and much more
June 2017 - Sounds of Skints? Doctor Ranking Pegasus!? Do The Dog #86

May
31: 2005 - The Dead 60s is eponymous debut album out on Epic (US art yellow, tracking differs for worse)
30: 2001 - Dictionary.com word of the day is hoi polloi
29: 2018 - full moon 10:19 am EST? troubling tweets do the Roseanne
29: 1995 - Moonstomp Tour: Toasters, Mustard Plug, Let's Go Bowling, Schleprock in Denver CO
27: 2018 - Maidstone Skafest UK: Intensified +4
27: 2018 - Slam Dunk Skafest UK: Selecter, Beat, Buzzcocks, SLF in Birmingham
27: 2018 - SuperNoVa International Ska Festival oh one eight continues
27: 2017 - SuperNoVa Ska Fest: Derrick Morgan 60th Anniversary Show, & next day Coolie rejoins Toasters for Dub 56
26: 2018 - Tim & April present SuperNoVa 2018 International SKA weekender, Spotsylvania VA; Charles is on scene for RSS
26: 2018 - Slam Dunk Skafest UK: Selecter, Beat, Buzzcocks, SLF in Hatfield
26: 2015 - Senior Allstars Dub from Jamdown: Darker Than Blue out
26: 2001 - Vertigo-gos post-breakup CD release party one night reunion
26: 1991 - Bim in Geneva NY
25: 2018 - 2X SuperNoVa preparties - either The Toasters, or a Dance Craze screening, Spotsylvania VA
25: 2018 - 20th annual Punk Rock Bowling weekend Las Vegas NV
25: 2018 - Slam Dunk Skafest UK: Selecter, Beat, Buzzcocks, SLF in Leeds
25: 2018 - if you see Tim Karns (Toasters/ Skunks) today wish him a happy 52
24: 2002 - The Busters 15th anniversary show is a great open-air concert Wiesloch (D) attended by 4,000+ green live CD
24: 1996 - Phil Kellum seez Frantic Flattops open for Dick Dale at the Bottleneck in Lawrence KS, then writes about it!
24: 1980 - Specials Rat Race out on TT11
24: 1938 - Prince Buster born
23: 1996 - Toasters record Live In L.A. at The Whiskey A Go Go (Moon) green shell VHS video/ not to be confused with live SkaVooVee CD
22: 2007 - Tim Armstrong A Poet's Life into action
21: 2006 - Public Access, Biting Midge, Grimetime at Monty's Krown Rochester by SR Twitch
19: 2018 - Slackers São Paulo Brazil
19: 2018 - The Medicinals co-headline the Lilac Festival, Free Sat 5pm
19: 2016 - points for using Davida: The Fuss DC CD In Trouble out!
19: 2003 - Sanctuary/ Trojan reissue Maytals Monkey Man (1969) CD out in slipcover
19: 2003 - Sanctuary/ Trojan issue Derrick Morgan Moon Hop: Early Years 2CD in slipcover
19: 1998 - Steady Sounds From the Underground on SideOneDummy Records
18: 2018 - Bosstones announce new album and tour
18: 2018 - Slackers party by the sea in Rio De Janeiro Brazil
18: 2018 - King Hammond & The Rude Boy Mafia w/ John Blood & The Highlys at The Finsbury LDN 8pm GMT
18: 1999 - R.I.P. the Great Pablo, aged 44
18: 1997 - Pietasters Rochester (move to larger venue)
17: 2018 - LORTO turns 40?!
17: 2013 - Derrick Morgan featured in Chicago Tribune
16: 2018 - Upstate NY Reggae guy turns 50
16: 1997 - Tundra Schmucks SC present Niagara Rally '97 weekender
16: 1989 - Upstate NY Reggae guy turns 21, also anticipated Deltones Make Me Smile 12" release, pushed til 6th June
15: 2018 - Third World Lilac Fest
15: 2009 - wild typo, out of my brain on the five-fifteen
14: 2018 - R.I.P. Tom Wolfe, aged 88
14: 2000 - Max Arranby interviews Dr. Ring Ding for the following Black & White 'zine issue
14: 1998 - R.I.P. Frank Sinatra, aged 82
13: 2017 - Lee Perry Ithaca
13: 2013 - English Beat Lilac Fest
13: 2004 - Ska La Mode Denver Jon Reggaefire does a teensy blog one Thursday
12: 1980 - complete John Peel session Laurel Aitken with The Ruts, (28 April 80) airs BBC1
11: 2018 - Upsetters Return of Django + Eastwood Rides Again reissued on Doctor Bird 2fer1 CD
11: 1981 - R.I.P. Honourable Robert Nesta Marley O.M., aged 36
10: 2018 - Dub Store Records Japan presents BMN Rocksteady: Always Together 1964-68 CD/ LP today
9: 2006 - Aggrolites major-er label thundercat debut on Hellcat/ Epitaph/ Sony; 19 tracks patented dirty reggae
9: 1999 - commencement
9: 1998 - Mephiskapheles outside in the rain at R.I.T. sucked
8: 2018 - Charles talks continuity and Skatalites over on RSS
8: 1998 - Goldmine #464 [annual independent labels issue] spotlight Moon Ska NYC Records
8: 1984 - Legend out
7: 2012 - Dualers out with Prince Buster Shakedown
7: 1995 - Miggedys An Informal Gathering CD release party sunday matinee
7: 1990 - No Sports Stay Rude, Stay Rebel mini-lp out on Unicorn
7: 1942 - Justin Hinds born, it's carry go, bring come
6: 1969 - R.I.P Don Drummond, aged 37
5: 1998 - Ska Sucks compilation out on Liberation Records
5: 1998 - R.I.P. Tommy McCook aged 71
4: 2018 - Star Wars and Spring Heeled Jack bassie Rick Omonte in Oswego?
4: 2007 - Slackers +4 Brew Haus in the heart of Kodak Park
4: 2004 - R.I.P. Sir Coxone, aged 82
4: 1979 - TT1 Special A.K.A. Gangsters backed with The Selecter released format 7" Vinyl, 45
3: 2013 - R.I.P Cedric Im Brooks, aged 70
3: 2012 - R.I.P. Lloyd Brevett O.M., aged 80. Boom any Skatalites bass or MR104CD for details
3: 1998 - Bosstones return to Seymour Union Ballroom SUNY Brockport but we don't
3: 1979 - The Specials Live at the Moonlight Club recorded [CHR TTX 5011 180gm LP 2014]
3: 1969 - Fabulous 208 popweekly Peter Sarstedt, Desmond Dekker, Barry Gibb
2: 1945 - Judge Dread born
1: 2018 - new Interrupters single She Kerosene out
1: 2014 - "Mayday Mayday Cuba do you read me?" Slackers return to Buffalo but gig's been moved to Town Ballroom
May 1977 - Rico Rodriguez “The Man from Wareika” interviewed by Carl Gayle, this month's Black Music mag
April
30: 1999 - Madness Irving Plaza NYC doors 8pm $22.50 illegal to resell
30: 1998 - "Bosstones floor 'em with sounds of ska" sez Rochester Democrat & Chronicle weekend section catchline
30: 1994 - Bosstones Seymour Union Ballroom SUNY Brockport
30: 1988 - Hotknives debut, Live at the Boatman recorded (Hampton Court, London)
29: 2018 - full moon 8:58pm EDT
28: 2015 - Roddy Radiation/ Scotch Bonnets/ Ronald Raygun/ Ruben Lipkind, Mohawk Place Buffalo
28: 2018 - Trav 182 Barker + Jon Goldfinger Feldman present Back To The Beach SKA weekender
28: 2001 - Bosstones Geneseo
28: 1999 - first version of this site up
28: 1998 - chaos at the S.A.R. Tour Pittsburgh PA!
27: 2018 - This is Trojan Boss Reggae: 2CD of Tighten Up reggae (purple lettering) out
27: 2004 - Mustard Plug (Ska is Dead Tour) Rochester
27: 1998 - Mustard Plug (Ska Against Racism Tour) Rochester, also Hepcat Time® Magazine
26: 2005 - More HP#8s
26: 1998 - More HP#5s
26: 2001 - Toots & The Maytals Water St (maybe 3rd time under a year?)
26: 1997 - Let's Go Bowling live at Bluebird Theater (Denver) recorded by Tom Matott aka Freeway Lanes, AMR-024
26: 1996 - Allstonians return to RITskeller taco bar 358 days later, early Kodak digital photos by Doc Awkward
25: 2018 - Slackers Lost Horizon Syracuse
25: 1997 - Skatalites return 114 W. Green Haunt Ithaca/ 9:30pm $12 18+ guess what they tour in a 1981 Itasca Suncruiser RV..
25: 1986 - Gaz's Rockin' Blues Sound System at Electric Ballroom w/ Laurel Aitken Band, Potato 5, Deltones, Howlin Wilf 8pm
24: 2008 - Rochester Mayor Robert J. Duffy issues proclamation that today be Frank De Blase Day
24: 2004 - Don't Be Late: Amy Ryan & The Operatives release their CD at The Stoop Syracuse
23: 2018 - King Hammond at 56
23: 2004 - meet Jah Crunchy
23: 1999 - Planet Smashers, Skarface [we are from France], Dinkus 9 Showplace Theatre Buffalo it's recorded
23: 1979 - the death of Blair Peach
22: 2014 - Holly Golightly explains Northern Soul via Jeff Spevak in today's Democrat and Chronicle
21: 2018 - Record Store Day has 50th Anniv Judge Sympathy the 45 which launched Trojan UK
21: 2018 - Record Store Day has 50th Anniv The Champ by Mohawks on Pama, 3500 copies gold vinyl + Herkules font!
21: 2018 - Record Store Day has Skatalites retread Hi-Bop Ska (1994) 900 copies their 30th Anniversary Record
21: 2018 - Record Store Day has Tim Armstrong retread A Poet's Life (2007) 900 copies on white vinyl
21: 2001 - on or about seeing buyin' a Wasted Days disc at the HMV Toronto ON
18: 2003 - Toasters Rochester (Easter weekend) by Fritz
18: 1988 - Toasters record 'Thrill Me Up' in Brooklyn for their forthcoming (Skaloid/Celluloid Records) L.P.
17: 2018 - 25 years since Toasters grabado el sabado Caracas Venezuela '93 which you can later buy on iTunes
17: 1998 - Specials MK II, Avalon Boston MA 7pm, $17
17: 1995 - Bosstones Harro East
16: 2017 - Interrupters Lost Horizon
16: 1981 - Timothy White Jump Up! Rolling Stone #341 (Seduced by Ska? is possibly the best USA article ever)
16: 1980 - New Vinyl Times Vol 1 No 8 features SKA Pauline + Peter Gabriel
15: 1996 - Skatalites Haunt Ithaca
15: 2018 - 25 years of stickerguy
14: 2018 - Jump Up + Ska Brewing present Two Legends and a Son at Reggie's Rock Club, Chicago IL 7pm CST 17+ $25-$60
14: 1987 - The Upbeats + No Doubt at the Soul Shack $5 10pm 1123 Vine Hollywood CA
12: 2018 - Joe talks Mitch 'King Kong' Girio and reggae-librarian Susan Cadogan
11: 2018 - Record Archive Back Room Happy Hour 5-8pm w/ Some Ska Band, (F-word goes OSB on April 16)
11: 2018 - Freedom Call, the fifth Maroon Town album out now!
11: 1998 - Kerrang #694 has MM Bosstones/ King Prawn
10: 2018 - Bunny Wailer is 71
10: 1980 - Bunny Wailer is 33, also Bad Manners debut longplayer Ska N' B out on Magnet
9: 2018 - R.I.P. New Musical Express shuts print abruptly after 66 years!
9: 1999 - Less Than Jake LeMoyne College
9: 1998 - Slackers Cortland NY
8: 1998 - Neville, lead singer of the Specials arrested on misdemeanor battery charges following tonight's gig in Chicago
6: 2018 - Phoenix City Allstars album #4 is Version Rockers (all Clash tunes in dub!)
7: 2018 - Skatalites Haunt Ithaca
7: 1980 - Jay Cocks meets the Specials in Time®
6: 2018 - Noise complaint? Joe Gittleman, sometimes seen dressed as a cop, is 5-0 today
5: 2018 - Slackers Mohawk Buffalo
5: 2017 - Slackers Montage Rochester
4: 2013 - Slackers Waiting Room Buffalo
3: 2004 - DJ Trump hosts SNL #561 musical guest Toots & the Maytals/ Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Bootsy, The Roots
2: 1998 - Professionals Watch Your Step cassette 500 qty from Discmakers
1: 2018 - Pete Porker suffers stroke, get well soon busterkendall
1: 2018 - Marco On The Bass celebrates 10 years of the very best in epic ska - reggae web loggin'
1: 2001 - Ska feast on the fools day Speakeasies, B-3s, General Rudie matinee show Water St
Apr 2018 - Long Live Vinyl #13 has massive RSD2018 preview and 50 Years of Trojan Records cover!
Apr 2017 - Street Sounds #17 Glory Boys
Apr 2014 - Street Sounds #15 Roy Ellis Ska Bonanza
Apr 1994 - Tower Records Pulse magazine small snippet Definition of Sound: Ska
Apr 1999 - Scootering #158 has Ed Ball
Apr 1999 - Lip Up #6 has Scofflaws/ Pilfers/ Donkey Show/ Trojan is Tight/ from Dennis Faray Houston TX
March
31: 2018 - blue moon, also dayglo orange signage for Hi Fi Needledrop's semi-annual Record Fair at Historic German House Theatre
31: 2018 - Pama International performs the Trojan Records songbook at LISF 2018 day 3
31: 2000 - Pressure Cooker Empire Brewing Co. High Falls Rochester
31: 1995 - dayglo orange signage for Toasters Ithaca NY
29: 2018 - original air date S01 E08 APBio NBC Pietasters 9:30 Patton Oswalt SKA
29: 2018 - 30th Anniversary London International Ska Festival begins at O2 Academy. Skinbyrd logo by CHEMA!!!!
29: 1980 - Selecter TT10, also Showing the Beat the Beat: Steve Barrow talks Laurel Aitken in this week's Black Echoes
27: 2018 - Derrick Morgan, conquering ruler is 78
26: 2003 - Extreme Ska Event, dirtbikes in lost wages nevada
26: 2003 - Dave Hillyard reflects on 9-11 (Rocksteady 7 Monty's Krown)
26: 1998 - Bim Skala Bim, old Milestones
25: 1999 - Bim Skala Bim, new Milestones
25: 1998 - HP#5 released, Staples Ridgeland
24: 2018 - Reggae or not here they come: Majestics, Double Wide Horns, Freedom Trio at Funk N' Waffles Rochester NY 9pm
24: 1998 - new Specials new disc Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent out, ruff art by FS Fairey
23: 1989 - Unicorn sequel: Skankin' 'Round The World Vol 2 out, sleevenotes by Tim Wells
21: 1991 - Skank Records Vol. 2 (Ska For Ska's Sake) out on Teichiku Records Japan CD+OBI strip
20: 2018 - Scratch is 82
19: 1980 - tonomon say this was the day RN Marley played football in Brazil
17: 1995 - Toasters, BC Enterprize, Horizontal Boogie Bar
17: 1988 - Operation Ivy live KSPC FM Pomona CA broadcast (aka Radio Daze, later used for Bring me Back Up LP)
17: 1979 - Sister Denise starts Reggae Sounds WITR FM radio Noon-2pm today; broadcast will run weekly for the next 38+ years
15: 2008 - R.I.P. Mikey Dread, aged 53
14: 2018 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra new album Glorious (CTCR-14937) out
14: 1998 - The Professionals, Dents, Channel 3 at Vertex 88 Liberty Pole Way $5, 7pm
13: 2003 - Thursday/ Slackers/ Milestones/ $5
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Judge Dread, aged 52 (onstage at The Penny Theatre in Canterbury Kent)
12: 1932 - Don Drummond born
11: 2018 - cue ominous music: skamovie.com
10: 2018 - (Erin Bardwell) The Skanxters at Swindon Vic
9: 1993 - Bad Manners Fat Sound (first Pork Pie Germany) now Triple X Records USA
9: 1989 - Coolie Ranx turns 24, also Braces Prime Cut out on Unicorn
6: 2018 - Joachim S (Braces) interviews JumpUp Chuck on RSS
6: 1989 - Laurel Aitken + The Loafers at Piranha's (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset UK)
4: 2018 - R.I.P. Russ Solomon (Tower Recs Guy), aged 92
4: 1998 - Cold calls? respond to the letter from Fritz in person
4: 1995 - Kim brings us out to Fantastic Records, get New York Fever
2: 1997 - Ska gone Penny Arcade
1: 2018 - full worm moon
March 2018 - Do The Dog Skazine #89 w/ Buster Shuffle
March 1999 - Nate Albert on returning to school
March 1998 - Musician #232 is on the bus with the MM Bosstones
March 1995 - Mods con the jazz brigade? Tower Records' Pulse mag has Skatalites page 45 by Larry Birnbaum
February
28: 1993 - WBER presents: Bad Manners w/ Scofflaws at Boogie Bar Rochester NY $6/$8, 18+, 9pm
27: 2018 - Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, Bim Skala Bim at Rapids Theatre Niagara Falls NY
27: 2006 - Pietasters Milestones Rochester
27: 1997 - King Changó Ithaca (Blanqito Man con zedjosh)
26: 2018 - Bim Skala Bim, Hugh Beaumonts, Some Ska Band in Rochester $12, 18+ Funk n' Waffles 8pm
24: 2018 - Big Youth!!! inna Bob Marley Celebration Haunt Ithaca NY $15adv /$20 DOS [Cancelled 2/23]
24: 1997 - Wonder wheel? NY BEAT II: Breaking & Entering out MR-099
23: 1997 - CRILLEE not just for ST:TNG credits anymore: MR101 Skarmageddon 3 is 45 new USA bands out
22: 2018 - Brad Nowell would be 50, also High Rollers Scooter Rally in Vegas
22: 2011 - Aggrolites #5: Rugged Road out
19: 1988 - Dutch Ska Festival with Mark Foggo, Skaos, Trojans 9pm at De Melkweg, Amsterdam
18: 1992 - Agnostic Front Club X Rochester 6:30p $10
17: 1998 - Mr. Review anthology One Way Ticket To Skaville available for USA by Moon Records
16: 1995 - Bosstones Network Buffalo
12: 2018 - Justin Hinds & the Dominoes From Jamaica with Reggae Expanded DBCD-09 (Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red UK)
12: 1998 - Scofflaws, Pilfers touch Third Rail Cortland - 35mm live photos by Mearns
12: 1997 - Triple rowdy ska >>> DJ Wade w/ Isaac Green & the Skalars/ DLO/ Gibsons haunt Ithaca during blizzard!
11: 2015 - a $2000 triple-stumper on Jeopardy #7003
11: 2005 - the late Doc Awk fondly remembers WRUR reggae shows in newsprint
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire Brewing
11: 1995 - Miggedys, Ansley Court HBB, 2X flier art by fat cat and his gang
11: 1989 - Deltones, El Bosso & die Ping Pongs at dieburse (hostel) Hamburg? Germany 8pm
10: 1995 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca, it's recorded 90 min
10: 1994 - Skaboom! + Recriminations MRO13 CD nineties compile w/ graphic blandishment by Andres 'Blanquito Man' Chango
9: 2018 - Noble Vibes 3rd Annual RN Marley Birthday celebration w/ Neville Francis (Sattalites) Lovin' Cup Rochester
9: 1999 - Bad Manners' superb Rare & Fatty 1976-97 out on MR131
9: 1996 - Toasters haunt; Coolie's vibes eulogize ex-LGB guitarist David Molina, killed 28 DEC
9: 1989 - Donkey Show Bali Island E.P. (DS Hillyard debut) out on Unicorn Records PHZA-26 today
6: 2014 - what is Oi! Jeopardy #6769/ a British interjection, or a genre of skinhead rock for $1200
6: 2004 - The Lightbulbs (Fairport NY) call it quits effective 3pm
6: 1999 - HP#6's Laurel Aitken interview final PSU skafest. Questions eerily similar to those on side four of PHZD-45 too
2: 2018 - Groundhog's Day? UB40 w/ Chrissie 12" USA promo I Got You Babe
2: 2004 - out of Favor Street basement cobweb, that missing 2nd Miggedys CD (tbr MR103) sees the light of day
2: 2003 - R.I.P Vincent "Randy" Chin of 17 North Parade, aged 85
2: 1995 - R.I.P. Fred Perry, aged 85
2: 1989 - Laurel Aitken live at Gaz's
1: 2005 - HP#8 spotted locally on page 114 of this glossy full-color British monthly!
Feb 1995 - Alternative Press #79 A Brighter No Future (Rancid cover)
Feb 1994 - Alternative Press #67 United States of SKA-merica (all about Skavoovee tour) Jo Ann Greene
January 2018
31: 2018 - full blue blood supermoon eclipse 6:48 am EST
31: 1997 - Professionals +3? Tea House Art Gallery, it's recorded to VHS
29: 2018 - new Alpha Boys School text on RSS, also come across vintage Miggedys clip in Rude #48!
29: 2008 - akaTwitch hits a lady on I-490
27: 2018 - R.I.P. Mort Walker, aged 94
27: 1996 - (Saturday) Yolk old milestones followed by 5 mile walk home 2am in the snow
27: 1982 - Urban Blight record their second? single, Magic VI b/w Becky in NYC
26: 2018 - tenth and final January Thaw for Buddhahood at Anthology 8pm doors $10
26: 1980 - Beat U.B.40 and Akrylykz at Electric Ballroom NW1 7:30p. + large Selecter feature in this week's Sounds "Pressure & Slide"
25: 2018 - Daily Double ($2000): Greek term for the unwashed masses
25: 2018 - Rosie Jonker & 3-letter words for $800 on Jeopardy #7684!
25: 2002 - Shanty Dan thanks HP onstage at their 9pm Rochester show; a reasonably big deal as BIM was an early inspiration
25: 2001 - Judge Rehnquist and Dave Wakeling Ithaca Beat odyssey
23: 1999 - Toasters, Mexican Cession, Split Second, Showplace Theatre Buffalo NY
23: 1995 - Ms. Cordell Jackson of Moon Records Memphis writes Bucket, prompting Moon Ska NYC name change
21: 2018 - First Class Mail Letters (1 oz.) rates will increase from $0.49 to $0.50 when purchased at the US Post Office
20: 2018 - he awarded me $100 before: R.I.P. Wendell Castle, aged 85
17: 1997 - JB say Ska-Tastrophe #4 (their last short tab newsprint issue) came hot off the presses today!
17: 1996 - Specials Singles Collection CD out in Japan
16: 2014 - Toasters Rochester
16: 1998 - Yeska record and mix their Skafrocubanjazz album at Private Island Trax in Hollywood CA three days
14: 2015 - RED STRIPES produced by Cavo
14: 2000 - Nigel & Allstonians live UR Wilson Commons coffeehouse, it's recorded
14: 1994 - SKA deemed the next big thing by Billboard® magazine
14: 1989 - Steve Lamacq writes 2 big New Musical Express pages on Zoot skazine & late 80's London ska awakening
14: 1965 - Georgie Fame's version of Yeh Yeh released
13: 2016 - Rocksteady 7 in New York Times Crossword page
12: 2018 - 50 years later? Absolutely... The Uniques out on Cherry Red UK/ Doctor Bird Records Format: CD
12: 2004 - tonight's installment of WRUR FM Ska & Roots Emporium begins with Aquabats' Ska Boss
12: 1996 - Return of the Rude Boy by Neil Gladstone in Philly City Paper + Andrea Gingerich, later mentioned in at least 2 'zines
12: 1980 - Rudy's Music Shop? (Zaterdag) Specials Ancienne Belgique Rue Des Pierres Bruxelles 8:30pm
10: 2018 - Esperanto Mag says This. Also, is it Rick Neilsen rated?
10: 2014 - R.I.P. Eric Lawson, aged 72 from COPD. See the Toasters track "Marlboro Man" for more detail
9: 2006 - hpska.com begins
9: 2001 - itunes.com begins
9: 1996 - HP#1 begins
6: 2017 - Epiphany? Some Ska Band + Vintage Pretty at Funk & Waffles 9pm free show
2: 2018 - R.I.P. Rick Hall, aged 85
1: 2018 - full/ wolf/ blood/ super/ moon 9:24pm EST
Jan 2018 - Mojo #290 The Jam cover, Ken Boothe's sunday morning record, more!
Jan 1998 - Mean Street Magazine Vol 3 cover features The Specials II. Also Face to Face Jello Biafra more
Jan 1998 - Folk Roots #175 features Gaz Mayall
Jan 1997 - Moon Skazette asks What the Heck is Ska Satellite Records?!
Jan 1997 - Never Ad Nothing #1 fanzine from Barcelona chronicles txarly brown's F.B.I., Desorden Publico, Mephiskapheles, more
December
31: 2017 - New Year's Eve w/ Easy Star All-Stars, Giant Panda GDS at Anthology 336 East Ave Rochester NY 14604 $40
30: 2017 - Hometown Throwdown #20 with The Pietasters, Kicked In The Head, with Pete Porker, Mark Katz Toxic Toast
29: 2017 - Hometown Throwdown #20 with Rude Bones, Vic Ruggiero
28: 2017 - Hometown Throwdown #20 with Piebald, The Doped Up Dollies
28: 2008 - R.I.P. Vincent T. Ford, aged 68
25: 2017 - our half-hearted Christmas playlist grew
23: 2017 - Slackers Holiday Show (Pecuilar) +3 Bell House Brooklyn
22: 2017 - Slackers Holiday Show (Redlight) +3 Bell House Brooklyn
22: 2012 - You're a mean one, Mr. Lint
21: 1987 - R.I.P. John Spence, aged 18
21: 1979 - Madness My Girl single out
20: 1988 - London International Ska Festival Day 1
19: 2014 - Slackers Live at The Sinclair (Cambridge, MA) it's recorded by Brendan Downey, mixed by Ronnie Morales
17: 2010 - R.I.P. Glen Adams, aged 65
17: 2000 - R.I.P. Moon Records
15: 2014 - Trojan BMG CD Reggae with The Hippy Boys (reissued its sixth time?)
15: 1997 - Ska-Tastrophe featured on today's Ink19
13: 2010 - double JEOPARDY triple stumper mentions the Specials and 2Tone for $2000
13: 1998 - Sunday Slackers Skatalites Ithaca
11: 2015 - RWW is made possible by fans & crowdfunding campaign organized by Contrajojo
10: 2017 - some loser runs a red light and totals the JumpUp Suby; DJ Chuck survives crash!
9: 2004 - CNN anchor Jack Cafferty has been caught misusing the term hoi polloi
9: 1979 - Straight Music presents Selecter/ The Beat/ U.B.40 7:30p Lyceum (LDN WC2)
8: 2017 - Hepcat, Jesse Wagner, Chris Murray at the Concert Lounge Riverside CA
8: 2001 - Planet Smashers Blackouts Statesmen Geneseo
8: 1979 - The Beat, summer roofers from Brum, release their first single cover Smokey Robinson on TT6
7: 2000 - Pilfers Blackouts Milestones
5: 2017 - Interrupters +3 Montage Music Hall Rochester 7pm $17
5: 1996 - Scofflaws Ithaca
5: 1986 - Toasters debut in UK on Unicorn Records
5: 1979 - Specials + Selecter recorded for BBC in Concert Series at the Paris Theatre, London
4: 2004 - Rancid Water Street
3: 2017 - full moon is a supermoon
3: 1995 - Bosstones UR Palestra
2: 2017 - Mephiskapheles, Abruptors, Reggie Childs Buffalo Mohawk, 3PM EST
1: 2017 - Slackers perform Wasted Days Reggie's Chicago, and will perform full albums here the next two nights
1: 1990 - Special Beat, The Toasters 1227 Washington in St Louis MO
1: 1979 - Straight Music presents the Specials, Selecter, Dexy's Midnight Runners 7:30p Lewisham Odeon (LDN SE13)
Dec 2017 - Do The Dog #88 with The Autocratics
Dec 1995 - Ska-Tastrophe #1 out
November
30: 2017 - R.I.P. John Naar, aged 97
30: 1997 - Sunday matinee: Pilfers, Professionals, and Enrique Slavadas Funtime Trio meet Amy Azzolina!, Penny Arcade!
29: 1979 - bring it come: The Selecter at Tiffany's Coventry UK, it's recorded for TT-10B
28: 1997 - Al Beaman Band CD release 10pm
28: 1980 - The Jam album No. 5
28: 1989 - This Are Two Tone out on CD in USA pink longbox today
26: 1991 - King Kong Compilation (Island Mango 1981) now out on CD/ cassette in USA
26: 1983 - This Are Two Tone CHR TT 5007 (Chrysalis LP) your choice pink or blue wrapper
25: 2017 - The National...
25: 1997 - NYC SKA MOB Tour (Slackers/ Stubborn Allstars/ Skinnerbox) + Creepers Buffalo
24: 2017 - more vaults? Black Friday Studio One 2xLP out!
24: 2017 - Turkey Jam at Bug Jar, also Copasetic Mod Ska Classics on Trojan 2CD £7.50 UK today
24: 2017 - Danksgiving 2017 w/ The Medicinals + Kevin Kinsella, at Flour City Station 8pm
23-25:17 - 9TH EDITION of the MONTREAL SKA FEST!
23: 2017 - Chris da Maddog Malone sits down with CB from RSS!
22: 1996 - Toasters + Bim Buffalo State University
21: 2017 - Yellowman w/ Root Shock at Funk n' Waffles Rochester $15, $20 DOS
21: 1999 - Spider Nick & Maddogs Rochester
21: 1996 - Boston Ska Rulers in friz quadrata (Bim Skala Bim 11x17") Haunt Ithaca $6/ $8
20: 1996 - MMB + Hepcat Buffalo
18: 2017 - new Augustyn & Reeves book, RE: Alpha Boys School out
18: 1977 - The Jam's 2nd, This is the Modern World out
17-19:17 - Pregame? 4e édition du festival de Ska / Punk / Reggae de la ville de Québec
17: 1995 - Toasters Rochester
17: 1979 - Madness, Red Beans & Rice, Bad Manners Electric Ballroom
16: 2017 - R.I.P. José Andrés Blanco, top graphic artist “Blanquito Man” of King Changó. See our interview with him in HP#4 for more!
16: 2006 - The Expos/ One Night Band +2? Milestones Music Room 170 East Ave Rochester by twitch
16: 2001 - Toasters Rochester
16: 1993 - The 2Tone Collection: A Checkered Past double CD jewel Chrysalis EMI with hype?
16: 1979 - The Jam's 4th, Setting Sons out. Also Madness, Red Beans & Rice, Bad Manners at Electric Ballroom
15: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim, Rudy Dance Brass Band, Globe Theatre Norwalk CT
15: 1980 - Melody Maker: Tracking the New Selecter
13: 1993 - Toasters (Skavoovee '93) at The Palace Los Angeles it's recorded for MR045CD = DIDX 021248
13: 1987 - Toasters, Donkey Show, Underground, Kix at Grand Central Station in Long Beach CA 8pm
11: 2017 - Tono Topnotch at 56, also Buddahood w/ Big Takeover at Funk n' Waffles Rochester $10
11: 1997 - Moon Ska NYC videotape The Reel Ska Reel VHS format MRV8001 pre-youtube stocking stuffer
10: 2001 - HP7 finished, took a year
10: 1994 - Miggedys +2 HBB, it's recorded
9: 2017 - R.I.P. Chuck Mosley III, aged 57
8: 2007 - Unseen image from rock star's 1976 Rochester NY pot bust surfaces Hilton NY
8: 1985 - The Friday Club Window Shopping UK CHS TT28 7" killed 2Tone?
5: 2014 - Rhoda Dakar Cleaning in Another Woman's Kitchen out
5: 1893 - Raymond Loewy born
4: 2017 - full moon, Saturday 1:23 A.M. EDT. big Ska Wars 20th Anniversary thing happening in Monterrey (Mexico) tonight!
3: 1978 - The Jam's 3rd, All Mod Cons out
2: 2017 - Day of the Dead w/ Los Skarnales warehouse live Houston TX $10
2: 1994 - SKA Wednesdays at Abyss 240 South Ave w/ Crunchy & Awkward. FM 89.7 ITR's Ben Schlaver reviews it two days later
Nov 2016 - Uncut #234 has a retro Specials cover, Frightnrs reviewed
Nov 1993 - MADBOX 1 Madness The Business Singles Collection 3CD set uses Emigre fonts heavily
Nov 1981 - Mango MLPS-9632 release the landmark King Kong Compilation, perhaps the only skinhead reggae 68-70 you'll need?
October
31: 2017 - Tuesday Night Halloween
30: 2017 - Mark Foggo turns 67
30: 1994 - Return to the Planet of The Bakesys! (live at the Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany) it's recorded DOGCD43
30: 1981 - Funboys split from Dammers' camp is made official
30: 1980 - Mark Foggo at 30, also The Specials 'Blanket Coverage' (first in a series to benefit elderlies) at the Hope & Anchor London
29: 2014 - The Holophonics [Denton TX] release MaSKArades Vol. 7: SKAlloween
28: 2017 - 20 years since the release of MNR123? also 6th Annual Devils Night Danse w/ Mephiskapheles +3 (Bowery Electric NYC)
28: 1993 - Bad Brains Prong Barkmarket HBB Rochester
27: 2017 - Scotch Bonnets play FEST16
27: 1995 - BossTones Roseland Ballroom, also the NYC SKA feature in NY Times Neil Strauss, photos Rahev Segev
27: 1994 - Castle Music Limited's DOJOCD92 (of Zoot Skazine 2LP) >> compact disc Max The Dog Says Do the Ska
26: 1993 - The Shack international Ska compilation courtesy BiB Records Boston; CD/CASS – two more will follow in coming decades
24: 2017 - R.I.P. Fats Domino, aged 89. See Madness shoplift his stuff in their 1981 film!
24: 2017 - Supernova Ska Fest 2018 performers announced
23: 2017 - Joey Altruda turns 54!
23: 1981 - Les Daly article on Buster Bloodvessel page 21 of The Sun
22: 1991 - Let's Go Bowling full length CD/ chromium cassette on Moon Records 027
22: 1938 - Chester Carlson made his first xerographic copy in a rented second story room in Queens!
21: 1993 - In Upstate New York, Rochester perhaps, maybe you witnessed the dancefloor collapse
20: 2017 - The Frightnrs More to Say Versions out on bandcamp! Also Jam '77 boxed set out
20: 2001 - Rico (w/ Roots to the Bone Band) live Argentina (Buenos Aires), it's recorded
20: 1994 - Skatalites Hi Bop Ska ships!
19: 1979 - Don't watch that, watch this (Madness debut on Stiff)
18: 2013 - Green Room Rockers Rochester NY Monty's Krown
17: 2007 - some box sent media rate
15: 2017 - R.I.P. DrAwkward, aged 62. WRUR DJ was a champion of all Ska/ Reggae/ Dub + Gasport/ Rochester/ Watertown/ Corning NY
14: 2017 - The Buddhahood new CD release, at Firehouse Saloon
14: 2017 - Cassette Store Day USA at HOG with a dozen JumpUp tapes
14: 1992 - Mother Down, Skaboola Ra (pre-Miggedys) Penny Arcade
14: 1991 - It's a whole new decade innit? Selecter On My Radio '91 [remix CD and 12" single] out
13: 2017 - Derrick Harriott & The Crystalites - smoke font Psychedelic Train (1970) first CD issue via Doctor Bird
13: 2007 -
Glen Smyth (dizzybeatnetwork Sydney Australia) loves HP!
13: 1997 - Selecter + The Friggs Water Street Rochester NY
13: 1979 - Selecter + Mo-Dettes, The Beat 7:30pm at Electric Ballroom Camden London UK
12: 2002 - 3X Untouchables Cool Beginnings rare 81-83 new & sealed via street vendor?!
12: 1997 - Mustard Plug, Mexican Cession Buffalo
10: 2000 - Django & Doug send
9: 2017 - Columbus Day; see the Live in Caracas '95 Scofflaws 'Christopher Columbus', or Peter Tosh's 'Here Comes the Judge'
9: 1993 - Steady Earnest Gangster Fun HBB Rochester
9: 1980 - Joe Jackson Band Beat Crazy
9: 1979 - [TT5] A Message to You, Rudy / Nite Klub
8: 2004 - Blackouts (semi-reunion?) + Amy Ryan and the Operatives at Fat Moe's 4419 Dewey Latta Greece NY 10PM all ages
7: 2017 - Paul Weller, Lucy Rose at Lincoln Theatre Washington DC 6:30pm $55
7: 1997 - Mephiskapheles' 2nd album, Maximum Perversion out on Moon MNR555 today (complete with Applebee's font)
6: 2017 - effective use of Brandon Grotesque Black? The Selecter have a box fresh CD/LP out entitled Daylight on DMF UK
6: 1994 - BossTones Jon Stewart Show MTV
6: 1990 - London Ska All Dayer at The Robey (Laurel Aitken, ex-Loafers as Pressure Drop, Bugsy Malone, Riffs, DJ Watford Jon) 3pm-3am
5: 2017 - full moon 2:15p EST
5: 2007 - This Is England opens at The Little Theatre and runs a week; Do the reggae popcorn & trainspot the temporal discrepancies!
4: 2017 - 12:30 AM Stephen Colbert welcomes Paul Weller NY NY (Irving Plaza)
4: 1994 - Question the Answers
4: 1980 - More Specials
3: 2008 - Caribbean Moonstomp Fest: Jump Up Records 15th Anniversary Weekend at the Bottom Lounge, Chicago
3: 1981 - Look-In #41 Madness depicted as outer space astronauts on cover
2: 2017 - R.I.P. Tom Petty, aged 66. For more see Pietasters, Dave Hillyard covers of his tunes of the last 10 years
1: 2017 - Susan Cadogan w/ King Kong 4 new recording Don't Know Why produced by Canada ska/ reggae stalwart Mitch Apparatus
Oct 2009 - SPIN magazine has Pearl Jam, an Oral History of 2Tone, 15 free downloads
Oct 1998 - 737 issue #8 green ink, the not so easily had MMB fanzine's final issue?
Oct 1995 - RUDE #44
Oct 1989 - Let's Catch The Beat #3 is the official fanzine of the Trojan Records Appreciation Society
Oct 1981 - Boston Rock #22 (Newbury Comics) The Specials, Neats, X, (Rochester NY's) Lydia Lunch, GoGo's, more
September
30: 2017 - SNL PAPYRUS
30: 2016 - Western Standard Time at Regent Theater (downtown Los Angeles CA)
29: 2017 - Les Claypool at 54, so new Primus record re: seven Rainbow Goblins
29: 2004 - Amy Ryan & the Operatives, 16bit at Fat Moes Dewey Latta Plaza, 10pm $3/$5
28: 1964 - Real Jamaica Ska (pink) 33 1/3 compiled by Curtis Mayfield out on Epic Records US. Legacy CD/cass in 1993 (EK52724-S1), 2001
28: 1997 - Moon Records Rebound Ska Tour (Magadog, Articles, ?) Water St Rochester
27: 1997 - Perfect Thyroid Mexican Cession Major Healy at the Showplace Theater, Grant Street Buffalo
25: 2017 - Judge Dread ps made blog Fonts in Use!
25: 1997 - Jay Wulff reviews new SkoiDats, Inspecter 7 discs in The New Paltz Oracle
24: 2009 - Miggedys (Pittsford NY 14534) on Onion AV?
23: 2017 - Toasters King's Rook Club (Erie, PA) Kaaaaren!
23: 2013 - Soul Jazz Records presents Studio One: Ska Fever! More Ska Sounds from Sir Coxsone's Downbeat
23: 1997 - Slackers Redlight
23: 1977 - Clash Complete Control b/w City of the Dead single
22: 2017 - DSH & his Rocksteady 7 do a Rico Tribute: 2 sets begin at 9pm $8, 21+ Hanks Saloon BKNY
22: 2017 - The Medicinals next hometown show is at the Photo City Improv w/ Majestics (plus Rudy Valentino!) and B33tJu1c3 18+, $10
21: 2017 - Skatalites w/ Chicago Jamaican Jazz Ensemble + Charlie Organaire and DJ Chuck Wren at Reggie's Chicago 17+ $12/15 DOS
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian Oster, aged 30
21: 1999 - Pilfers 2nd, Chawalaleng
21: 1993 - KLWD 91.9 FM (Gillette WY) gets a moonpack containing DHC 89-92/ LGB/ Busters/ Toasters/ Hepcat
21: 1986 - Whaaam! modzine presents 60's Ska night R&B Soul at the Fab Mab (Mabuhay Gardens) 433 Broadway SF CA 8pm
21: 1979 - Lost in the supermarket? The night this photo was taken
20: 2011 - Tommy McCook Caltone Special out on Attack label (CD)
20: 1997 - Pilfers at Spectrum Montreal PQ, it's recorded
20: 1994 - Skamageddon '94 (Buck O' Nine + Mu330) Electric Lounge Austin TX
20: 1992 - Selecter w/ Let's Go Bowling at the Outhouse in Lawrence KS
19: 2017 - 7M earthquake Mexico City (ChemaSkndl survives!!)
19: 1985 - 8M earthquake Mexico City
19: 1980 - Bad Manners Special Brew b/w Ivor the Engine single
18: 1981 - the only expletive on any Police record released today
16: 2017 - Some Ska Band performs at Kettlefest in Victor NY 12:15p
16: 2000 - free Toots Water St
16: 1997 - Ska Island, still sealed collection of compiled by Gaz Mayall for Island40 out; art is a rework of one of his mixtapes!
15: 2017 - R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton, aged 91. See Twin Peaks/ Repo Man for more
15: 2014 - PDROPBOX25, that 5 album Laurel Aitken boxset out on Cherry Red, complete with reproduction sleeves!
15: 2007 - Slackers Boss Harmony Sessions
15: 2005 - Whitmore (Salisbury UK) final show, Robb Blake has gone solo since
13: 2017 - Max The Dog resell to BopShop - somebody's missing out!
12: 1977 - R.I.P. Steve Biko, aged 30
11: 1987 - R.I.P. Peter Tosh OM, aged 42
10: 2017 - Irma arrives in Tampa FL; see the Mark Foggo tune 'Hurricane' for more detail
9: 2017 - Chris Murray + Less Than Jake at Ska Brewing's 22nd Anniversary Durango, CO
9: 2017 - New 35mm print of A Clockwork Orange (1971) screens at Dryden Theatre, 7:30p
9: 2007 - get a Ska'd For Life memoir by Horace Panter and its dust jacket locally
8: 2017 - Pilfers 20th Anniversary show, and supposed final reunion, The Well in Brooklyn $20
8: 2017 - Dancing Down Orange Street: Expanded Edition CD (Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red UK)
8: 2017 - The Kingstonians Sufferer: Expanded Edition CD (Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red UK)
8: 2016 - R.I.P. Prince Buster, aged 78. Also Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachel out in hardback
8: 2003 - Slackers brand-new Close My Eyes
8: 1995 - Tin spam, caviar? Stubborn Allstars's Open Season out
8: 1982 - NY Times: Ska Revival Hits Groove by Stephen Holden (on English Beat at Peppermint Lounge Sept 6)
7: 1989 - stuttgart.de No Sports King Ska [PHZA-49] out today; some of the finest German ska ever made
7: 2017 - New 35mm print of A Clockwork Orange (1971) screens at Dryden Theatre, 7:30p
7: 1995 - Cher Horowitz, Lint talk to Rolling Stone
7: 1977 - two big pages on fanzines this week's Sounds
6: 2017 - full corn moon at 3:02am EST, also Doug Trendle at 59
4: 2015 - R.I.P. Rico Rodriguez, aged 80
3: 1990 - Jamaica Live: Skatalites, Shelly Thunder, Sister Carol, Unity 2 (ex-Toasters NYC) at S.O.B.'s Varick/ it's recorded for BBC!
2: 1996 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra #6, bka Tokyo Strut out SONY JAPAN ESCB 1706 today
1: 1938 - Alton Ellis born
Sept 2017 - Record Collector #470, We are the Mods special
Sept 2017 - Do The Dog #87 Midday Joggers? the Bakesys return
Sept 2000 - Kingpins Plan of Action (re-released on Bandcamp 23 JUL 17)
Sept 1993 - Blue Ryder #31 Bosstones cover (newsprint outta OLEAN, NY)
August
28: 2017 - Supernova Records announces MP3 of Derrick Morgan's 60th Anniversary Show up for download
27: 1996 - King Chango s/t out on Luaka Bop Warner Bros.
25: 2016 - LTSO (Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra) 2nd album, Bite The Bullet
25: 2005 - Style Wars deluxe 2DVD in Rolling Stone
25: 1981 - Specials at the Ritz NYC
25: 1979 - Extra Extra Two Tone: this week's NME has Neville and Lynval
24: 2017 - R.I.P. Winston 'Samuels' McInnis, aged 73
24: 2017 - TP Coniff at 38, Rancid on Conan O'Brien TBS
24: 1997 - TP Coniff at 18, Siren Six +2 Penny Arcade Rochester NY
24: 1987 - TP Coniff at 8, Gaz's Ska Extravaganza back on at The Astoria from 9p - 3:30 a.m.
23: 1997 - Django at 30, C.Wren at New England Ska Fest, Nashoba Valley Westford MA program guide shiny paper by Grant Thayer
22: 1995 - Selecter Pucker (aka Hairspray in USA) out on Dojo UK with the help of Paul Seacroft!
22: 1983 - Madness at Pier 84 NYC
21: 2017 - total solar eclipse and postage stamps to mark Jeff Baker bka King Django at 50
21: 2017 - brand new Pama International record out
21: 2007 - Pietasters All Day out on Indication Records today
21: 1993 - Ska Flames Wail'N Skal'M out on Sunshot (Sony Japan)
20: 1994 - Buck O' Nine Songs in the Key of Bree Immune Records 004
19: 2017 - Jump Up Records's 001 American Skathic 24th Anniversary Party at Metro Chicago 8pm
19: 2017 - The Majestics new record, Science, release party at 3HB
19: 2017 - Great Northern Ska Festival: Bad Manners/ Skatalites/ Rhoda/ King Hammond & The Rudeboy Mafia +9
19: 1997 - Toots & the Maytals orange disc The Very Best of [Music Club] has Louie Louie on it!
18: 2017 - No More Heartaches / What Am I To Do? compilations reissued (NMH used to be the other half of Trojan's Liquidator 2CD 1991)
16: 2005 - new Madness: The Dangerman Sessions Volume One out on V2 North America
16: 2003 - HP8 out
16: 1998 - Laurel Aitken Wetlands NYC
16: 1977 - Elvis is Dead (aged 42)
16: 1956 - Bela Lugosi is Dead (aged 73)
15: 2017 - Mike Park on Vice
14: 2017 - Bosstones on WAPO.com, also YouTube's 910dohead published the hypothetical Bodysnatchers 1980 full length
14: 1988 - Reggae Sunsplash #11 begins today and runs a week
12: 2009 - Amazing Spider Man Vol.1 #602 leggy lady on Lambretta cover
11: 1998 - iconic 1988 SKANK RECORDS: Licensed To Ska/ Ska for Ska's Sake/ 15 Commandments/ now in 3CD box set out via Snapper UK
10: 2000 - DSH & Rocksteady 7 at Water Street Rochester
10: 1984 - Bad Manners at the Ritz NYC
9: 2017 - a Selecter at Knitting Factory Brooklyn NY
9: 1971 - R.I.P. Leslie Kong, aged 38
8: 2000 - The Wailers Climb The Ladder on Heartbeat HB251 today
8: 1992 - Madstock I, Finsbury Park LDN it's recorded
7: 2017 - full sturgeon moon 2:11pm EST
7: 2015 - This is Trojan 3CD set
7: 2012 - Ska Anthems 3CD 60 tracks from the sixties + metal tin out
7: 2007 - Oreskaband debut US release CD out today
7: 2001 - Real Jamaica Ska (first compiled by Curtis Mayfield Sept 1964, CD 1993) remastered +2 Wailers + Ethiopian Flag art today
7: 2001 - Wailers Trenchtown Days: Birth Of A Legend (US) Epic/Legacy, EK 63588
6: 1928 - Andrew Warhola born
5: 2002 - road trip to Charlotte NC manifests UK hits
4: 1998 - El Thommo at 20, also DVS Media ten-years-later sequel Mashin' Up The Nation 3 & 4 street date
3: 2017 - Matisyahu (West Chester PA), Danielle Ponder (Rochester NY) at Party in The Park $5
3: 1997 - Specials Mk II at Boston's Tempe AZ had sweet diecut Wally handbills
2: 2017 - Bucket at 62
1: 2017 - EJWZ at 40, the Scotch Bonnets show 7pm at Villain & Saint in Bethesda
Aug 2017 - MOJO #285 has Saxa Obit, big Selecter piece, Clash
Aug 2016 - Vive Le Rock #38 is 2Tone Then & Now issue
Aug 2015 - Big ups to Joel McIver, Lakeshore Record Exchange, Laurel Aitken and Unicorn Records list made the letters section RC #443
Aug 2013 - Street Sounds #4 Susan Cadogan
Aug 1986 - Rude Awakening #9 Buster Bloodvessel
July
31: 1979 - (Tuesday) the Special A.K.A. + support at City Centre Club Coventry UK £1.25 adv/ £1.50 DOS begins 10pm
31: 1997 - Key Ska Figures to perform live on KUCI sez Mike Boehm in L.A. Times
30: 2017 - Rudy V and Don Carlos in Germany
30: 1989 - FLE presents a dance concert w/ Bad Manners, Laurel, Gangbusters, Donkey Show, + Blue Beat Bastards at Iguanas, Tijuana
29: 2017 - Steady 45s + Charley Organaire at Subterranean Chicago IL
29: 2017 - Join cool kids/ canalboat ruffians for an afternoon of ska, reggae, more ska Spencerport Canal Days Fireman's Field 3-5pm
29: 2010 - High Priest of Reggae (Cherry Red CD) found at HoG
28: 2017 - The Treasure Isle Story set of 4CDs out on Sanctuary, also Ska Party 3CD retread sixties oldies both out today
28: 2013 - Bakesys mention HP7 (2001) on their facebook?
28: 2007 - Aggrolites Club Diablo Buffalo NY; J. Bonner leaves soon a week? after
28: 1998 - Duff Steve presents Ska United a Global Ska Sampler on Moon Ska NYC MR130 ? indeed some say this was out Mar 31
27: 2003 - Hepcat Belly Up Solana Beach San Diego CA, poster by Scrojo
27: 1987 - Dekker, Aitken, Trojans, Maroon Town at Astoria (London UK) ? indeed some say this is pushed back to Aug 24
25: 1992 - Faith No More +2 Rich Stadium Buffalo
25: 1992 - London Summer Ska Fest at the Robey! Prince Buster & Big 5, Selecter, Int'l Beat, Judge Dread, Hotknives play
24: 1990 - Chrysalis USA present Dance Craze out on compact disc w/ longbox, and again as cassette F421783
23: 2011 - RIP Amy Jade Winehouse, aged 27. See the Madness track 'Blackbird' for more
22: 2017 - The Beat is Blue - new King Hammond LP - out on Jump Up Records today
22: 1982 - Smash Hits UK magazine MADNESS
21: 2017 - Primus returns to the Dome Arena
21: 1997 - (Monday) Toots & Maytals, Jump with Joey, Bluebeats, EST, Orange Street debut Moon showcase Wetlands NYC
21: 1983 - 2 Tone's gone to fad heaven but the English Beat goes on (by John Griffin) in today's Montreal Gazette
21: 1971 - 'Taki 193' Spawns Pen Pals sez The NY Times
20: 2017 - Geoff Weeg at 40, also The Hempsteadys, Just Brian at the Bug Jar Rochester NY 7-10pm $7/$9
20: 2017 - Lakeshore Record Exchange to shutter sez Democrat and Chronicle
19: 2017 - Heather Augustyn guest blogs Derrick Morgan Supernova on Wax Poetics!
19: 1997 - patio blocks handlebars chase pitkins
19: 1969 - Do the moon hop!
18: 2010 - get that Original Cool Jamaican reissue
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Lorenzo Aitken, aged 78
16: 2017 - The Who sell out CMAC (upstate NY) 7:30p
16: 1995 - Miggedys w/ Skavoovie at Water St Music Hall - Spring Heeled Jack are no shows in Area Code 716
16: 1990 - Wailers The Birth Of A Legend is all the early ska stuff on Epic (CBS US), ZGK 46769
16: 1941 - Desmond Adolphus Dacres born in St. Andrew, Jamaica
14: 2017 - Don Cosmic, remastered Drummond compilation CD/LP out today (Studio One)
13: 2002 - Legends of Ska Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto
12: 2002 - Legends of Ska Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto
12: 1994 - Skarmageddon massive 2CD compilation out on Moon Records
11: 2013 - Elmar L. Romain's space show!
11: 1988 - Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute at Wembley Stadium
10: 2017 - The Skints (open for 311) at ArtPark Lewiston NY
10: 2000 - Locate a copy of American Playhouse
9: 2017 - full moon 12:07 am EDT
9: 1997 - Stubborn Allstars + Pablo Fiasco "Tin Spam" on MTV Oddville
8: 1997 - Skavoovie & The Epitones (+ Professionals) Haunt Ithaca
8: 1995 - The Specials MK II live in Montreaux Switzerland (Miles Davis Hall) it's recorded Ghost Town Live
7: 1998 - Arachnid? New York Ska Jazz Ensemble out with Get This! on Moon Records today
5: 1990 - Island/ Mango present Club Ska '67 on compact disc format
1: 1995 - "This one goes out to O.J. Simpson..." the Selecter rocks Roskilde Denmark, it's recorded
1: 1992 - on or about King Hammond's Blow Your Mind (compilation CD) out; this collects the obscure BB Revolution '70 LP and more
July 2017 - Shindig #69 Paul Weller cover (and ugly Revue font?!)
July 2015 - Vive Le Rock #27 The Who at 50/ Mods Mayday!/ Chords/ Lambrettas/ Secret Affair, Elvis Costello, Selecter
July 1989 - Q Magazine #34 Lloyd Bradley reviews The Specials first two reissued on CD
Summer '88 - Whaaam! #10 modzine - pop consciousness of Toasters NYC, Gina Lollobrigida's Vespa, Ernst Schleicher USA scootering, more
June
30: 2017 - Noble Vibes invade Buffalo NY
29: 2017 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at party in the park Rochester 8pm
29: 2017 - CHemaSkandal "Spirit of 69" 6pm CST at IPaintMyMind Gallery 2545 W Diversey Suite 255 Chicago IL 60647 USA, check it on RSS!
29: 2017 - Sony Will Start Making Vinyl Records Again In Japan, After A Nearly 30-Year Hiatus
28: 2007 - what's an iPhone?
26: 1980 - Specials at Maruyama Yagai Ongaku-Do (Kyoto) Concert
24: 2017 - 1st annual Ithaca Reggae Fest
22: 2017 - Chris Blackwell turns 80, ROSSLAU 2017 begins, also Living Colour Rochester NY free show 8:10pm
21: 2017 - Latin Ska Denver
21: 2015 - Melbourne Ska Orchestra at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, it's recorded
21: 1990 - Toasters Rochester (Scorgies)
18: 2017 - Version City Tour has a show at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago IL 7pm
17: 2017 - Elvis Costello and The Imposters at CMAC, in Canandaigua, NY
16: 2017 - Johnny Reggae Rub Foundation new album No bam bam, come on get easy!
16: 2017 - Adam Birch on RSS, Jah Crunchy turns 58, also Wailers w/Medicinals + Noble Vibes Park Point Square 6pm, free
16: 1999 - Adam Birch w/ Toasters Rochester (Bug Jar), the release of HP6
16: 1986 - Unicorn Records begins, this year we spring for a PHZA-63 to celebrate
16: 1967 - Monterey Pop Festival begins
14: 2017 - Victoria BC Ska Society's 18th Annual Ska & Reggae Festival runs four days
14: 2017 - Toasters return to Mohawk Place, w/Black Irish Texas, Toy Box Brigade, Reggie Childs (Buffalo NY) 8pm $12/$15
12: 1997 - Wall Street Journal publishes an article about the HoG
11: 1995 - step on it: The Ska Parade KUCI FM benefit compilation CD out on A To Y Productions by Tazy Philips
10: 2017 - Larry MacDonald turns 80 in fine style Hank's Saloon Brooklyn NY 9pm
10: 2011 - Toasters Rochester (Dubland Underground)
9: 2017 - new Rancid (#9) out today Trouble Maker, also Strawberry full moon 9:10 am EST
9: 2009 - Aggrolites IV out on Hellcat
7: 2017 - It's a psychobilly freakout! Also Captain SKA play their official launch gig for their song 'Liar Liar' at Brixton Jamm
6: 2017 - The Specials + The Far East at Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON M4K 1N2
6: 2007 - Aggrolites III out: reggae's to hit L.A. (anagram of The Aggrolites)
6: 2001 - Coolie Ranx opens for the BossTones Rochester!
5: 2001 - Frantic Frank opens for the BossTones Rochester!
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles in town, the release of HP4
5: 1977 - midnight to six man/ Ken Boothe/ UK pop reggae
3: 2017 - Some Ska Band return to Thirsty's Pittsford. Also came across a Miggedys JAR008 at HOG sidewalk sale
2: 2017 - Bones: a retrospective one night only at AMoR 610 Monroe
2: 1970 - Richie Senior born
June 2017 - Do The Dog #86 The Skints cover
June 1996 - Record Collector #202 has deep stuff on Leslie Kong, Island Records, Derrick Morgan, Dekker
May
31: 1980 - Rudies Uber Dallas (Selecter in Texas) in Sounds by Garry Bushell
30: 2017 - House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration (hardcover) ships today
30: 1997 - Mephiskapheles #2, Maximum Perversion, mastered by Joe Lambert at Ground Zero Studios, NYC
29: 1980 - Smash Hits Terry Hall cover
29: 2017 - JumpUp to host the brunch, with a screening of Legends of Ska
28: 2017 - SuperNova International Ska Festival '17 day 2 closes with Pietasters
27: 2017 - SuperNova International Ska Festival '17 day 1 closes with Derrick Morgan /Greg Lee/ Aggrolites
26: 2017 - JumpUp to host the preparty, with a screening of Legends of Ska
26: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Adolphus Dacres, aged 64
25: 1994 - Boutros Boutros at Penny Arcade (Wednesday Made in Rochester Competition)
24: 1995 - Grounds Keeper Willy at Penny Arcade (Wednesday Made in Rochester Competition)
23: 1987 - The Busters first gig ever (Wiesloch Germany) – and not unlike No Doubt they perform a Selecter cover
22: 2017 - Jerry Dammers turns 62
22: 1959 - Island Records founded
21: 2007 - Stop whining: miscreant serendipity as Bucket meets Chuck Berry gate E8 St. Louis Airport
20: 2017 - Mustard Plug, J. Navarro & Traitors, Abruptors, Buffalo Brass Machine +1 at Mohawk Place Buffalo NY 8pm $10-12
20: 2017 - Some Ska Band at the b-side Fairport NY, 7pm
19: 2007 - this issue of NME celebrates the Clash's 30 years of punk rock fury
18: 2017 - decades since Pietasters Armory
18: 1994 - Sonic Youth David Letterman
15: 2008 - bicycle commuting in Greater Boston WGBH 2 features Eric Mearns, David Watson of Mass Bike, Mayor Tom Menino. Original air date!
15: 1999 - Pilfers haunt Ithaca
14: 2017 - Lee Scratch Perry & the Subatomic Sound System Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
13: 2017 - Lee Scratch Perry & the Subatomic Sound System Haunt Ithaca NY 9pm 16+, $20 adv
13: 2013 - English Beat Lilac Festival free 7pm/ it's 40º when we get there
13: 1999 - Toots & The Maytals haunt Ithaca
13: 1990 - Toots & The Maytals Warfield SF, CA
11: 1981 - R.I.P. Hon Robert Nesta Marley O.M., aged 36
10: 2017 - full moon, 5:42pm EST
9: 1999 - Ron Netsky is my co-pilot
9: 1998 - Mephiskapheles outside in the rain at R.I.T.
9: 1997 - The Professionals, 5Head open Bim Skala Bim at Water Street Music Hall
9: 1989 - PHZA-32 is Casino Royale's Ten Golden Guns LP a "Tight bond of Ska and soul licensed to thrill" – Mad Butcher Germany reissued this 2016
8: 1998 - Goldmine #464 (annual independent labels issue) spotlight Moon Ska NYC Records
8: 1981 - The Beat second LP, Wha'ppen? on Go Feet /Arista (working title was Dance Yourself Stupid)
7: 1942 - Justin Hinds born
6: 2017 - Ska & Northern Soul 2017 Open Air All Dayer, (Berwick’s Largest Annual Ska Event) just £8.00
6: 2017 - Mearns at 40
6: 1969 - R.I.P. Don Drummond, aged 37
5: 2017 - Roddy Radiation turns 62, also SHJ USA has a new record out and plays Toad's Place in New Haven CT 9pm $20
5: 2004 - R.I.P. Clement Seymour 'Sir Coxone' Dodd, aged 72
5: 1998 - Steady Sounds from the Underground is a compilation out on Side One Dummy
4: 2007 - Tom Skalapeño, Seth Voorhees, Slackers +4 Kodak Park (California Brew Haus), it's recorded
4: 1997 - Magadog, Tom Skalapeño +2 at Penny Arcade
4: 1983 - 7:30AM, a tired New York band walked out after their 1st gig at Lower East Side’s notorious A7 Club with $30 – and a black eye
3: 2017 - R.I.P. Lionel Augustus Martin, bka Saxa, aged 87 – it wasn't a peer group
3: 2003 - snow at the busstop? Blackouts split following gig at Jillians
3: 1980 - Patches Magazine #61 has Madness/ Blondie/ Selecter
2: 2017 - Lily Allen turns 32
1: 1997 - IPC launches UNCUT magazine
May 1997 - Moon Skazette adds some color for their Summer of Ska issue
May 1994 - Where have all the ska 'zines gone? Slave Labor Graphics present Dork #2 Evan Dorkin Sarah Dyer compilation
May 1980 - New York Rocker #28 reviews The Specials
April
30: 2011 - Pietasters w/ H.R. Rochester
30: 1988 - Hotknives scarce Live at the Boatman (aka Hampton Court, LDN) recorded. You can now get reissue 10" from Mad Butcher/ JumpUp 2017
29: 2017 - an Al Beaman Band reunion show, also ReadJunk turns 20 this year
29: 2016 - Majestics on WRUR 88.5 Open Tunings w/ Scott Regan at 11am sharp
29: 1992 - there was a riot on the street tell me where were you?
28: 2001 - BossTones Geneseo, on the way find Hepcat Push & Shove at SoundGarden II apparently
28: 1999 - first version of this site up
26: 1998 - BossTones Roseland Ballroom NYC, recorded for MTV Reverb
25: 1988 - Operation Ivy in St. Louis
22: 2017 - guide to RSD 2017 reggae records
22: 2014 - Holly Golightly explains Northern Soul via Jeff Spevak in today's Democrat and Chronicle
20: 2010 - Slackers have a new album (their 12th), The Great Rocksteady Swindle out on Hellcat today
19: 2017 - cheap tapes!
19: 2016 - R.I.P. Joseph Abraham Gordon bka Lord Tanamo, aged 81
14: 2017 - weekender http://www.londoninternationalskafestival.co.uk/
14: 1983 - (Thurs) English Beat w/ R.E.M. at BSC gym, 9pm $6.50 students, others pay $8.50
13: 2017 - excited the Dead 60s reform for 6 UK shows + they kickoff the LISF '17... The Spitfires have been added at The Electric Ballroom
13: 1983 - (Weds) English Beat w/ R.E.M. at the University of Rochester's Alexander Palestra
11: 2017 - full moon 2:08 EDT
10: 2017 - Brian Setzer is 58
9: 2017 - National Unicorn Day, moobaks at 38, also After Dark presents the Slackers in Syracuse NY
8: 2017 - Noble Vibes at Lovin' Cup Bistro Park Point R.I.T. 9pm, $5
8: 1977 - The Clash is the debut album by English punk band, through CBS Records
5: 2017 - the Slackers w/ Willow Bay at Montage Music Hall $18 8pm, it's recorded. Frank too!
4: 2013 - the Slackers w/ Abruptors at Waiting Room Buffalo, it's recorded
Apr 2017 - Street Sounds #17 's return to A4 size
Apr 2013 - Street Sounds #2 Jennie Mathias Pool Wellah cover
Apr 2009 - Record Collector #361 Ian Shirley full color on the most prized sixties Jamaican records
Apr 1999 - Scootering #158 has Ed Ball
Apr 1999 - Lip Up #6 has Scofflaws/ Pilfers/ Donkey Show/ Trojan is Tight/ from Dennis Faray Houston TX
Apr 1994 - SKOiNK #10 available now
Apr 1985 - BUY221 (Untouchables Free Yourself) in UK Top 30! It's most marketed item in the entire Stiff canon, with 9 different single releases of the same tracks
March
31: 1995 - (Friday) Selena shot and killed, also Toasters haunt ithaca (in support of Dub 56) $7, 18+
29: 1982 - English Beat's third and final Peel Session for BBC
26: 2017 - Fishbone at Waiting Room Buffalo NY 8pm $25
26: 2003 - Brad Pate, Bucket, DS Hillyard via Chris Murray & Kyle Ska World #1 out
26: 1990 - (Monday) the video people flaked out of taping for the NYC SKA LIVE record [MR022] at Cat Club, 13th Street Manhattan
25: 2017 - Kinda Kinks Kover Night at Skylark Lounge (Rochester NY) 9pm
25: 2004 - Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at Water St (Thursday)
25: 1998 - HP#5 out now
24: 1990 - (Saturday) Toasters, Let's Go Bowling, The Specs, Dance Hall Crashers at Country Club Reseda CA by Goldenvoice
23: 2017 - Derrick Morgan's 1977 People Decision issued on CD by Radiation Records label today
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim w/ Koo Koo Boy Boogie Bar Rochester
20: 2017 - Rainford Hugh Perry, bka Scratch the Upsetter turns 81
20: 2013 - David Katz writes Skatalites on RedBull
19: 2017 - Terry Hall (Specials/ FB3/ Colour Field) is 58/ Jon Barra (Miggedys/ Good Samaritones/ Deltaforce 23) is 40
18: 2017 - Murphy's Law at the Mohawk in Buffalo, also one night only George Boswell AKA Niney The Observer in Chicago IL
18: 2017 - Hail Hail Rock N' Roll! R.I.P. Charles Edward Anderson Berry, aged 90. See Toasters "Chuck Berry", "Johnny Go Ska" or Judge Dread "My Ding A Ling" for more detail
18: 1967 - Prince Who's King, MM
17: 2017 - Mark Renton returns
17: 1995 - Ronnie Kray's fatal heart attack, also Toasters HBB Rochester
17: 1979 - Sister Denise starts Reggae Sounds on WITR FM radio Noon-2pm today; this broadcast will run weekly for the next 35+ years
16: 2017 - via satellite? The Specials' Enjoy Yourself was heard on muzak at the burrito joint 1:56:39 pm EST!!!!
15: 1980 - Black Echoes Rolando Ska (Part I of II)
14: 1980 - reissue of Skinhead Moonstomp 12" + 7" x four fashion 1 colour pic sleeves from Trojan Records
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Alex Dread; see Backy Skank's 2003 "The Smart Alec" / Skaville UK's "Dreader Than Dread" for detail
12: 2017 - full moon 14:54 UTC
12: 2007 - Amy Winehouse performs hit Rehab for her American TV debut on Late Show w/ David Letterman
12: 1932 - Don Drummond born
11: 2001 - the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
11: 1998 - OUR NEW PAGE IS UP NOW!! (And coming together nicely) Direct yourself to moonska.com
11: 1997 - Mercury 314 534 472 2 makes an impression
9: 2013 - As scene on TV? the Action (ex-Skatos) play ska on a flatbed truck float in annual Syracuse NY St. Pat's parade
9: 2005 - Tongues of Fire? TSPO #12, Answer out on Cutting Edge/ AVEX JAPAN
8: 2000 - Rev Horton Jim Heath w/ One Man Army + Dance Hall Crashers, at Water Street Rochester 8pm
8: 1980 - NME & Roger a go talk: The Beat (Birmingham between the Lions)
6: 1980 - Mick Brown on Specials/ barbershop photo by Brian Griffin in Rolling Stone, page 24
4: 2017 - Reggae debuts at the ButaPub? Join Noble Vibes 315 Gregory Street. Rochester 10pm
2: 1997 - Professionals/ Danny Down & Syndromes/ Sinker at Penny Arcade matinee $5
1: 2017 - Kenneth Partridge [Paste Magazine] talks Ska
1: 1980 - This week's Sounds details May Madness for Prince Buster, who will return to UK for 6 to 8 shows
1: 1979 - DCE Bechle born
March 2017 - Do The Dog Skazine #85 with The Interrupters (and Buffalo's Abruptors)
March 2016 - Do The Dog Skazine #81 with Doped Up Dollies
March 2006 - Ska In The World #18 has Moonhop, Brazil Ska Fest, Chris Murray
March 2000 - Deadenders #1 from DC/Vertigo: "Equal Parts Quadrophenia, Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting" says Metro News
March 1953 - Science Fiction + Magazine Vol.1, No.1 Alex Schomburg's Cosmatomic art (later sourced for Bim Skala Bim Universal 1998)
February
28: 1980 - Madness at the Nickelodeon Tavern (Toronto, ON) 9pm $3
27: 2017 - CITY? Honda Honda Honda
25: 2017 - Noble Vibes at Firehouse Saloon 10pm
25: 2017 - LISF 2 Tone Thames cruise (now soldout)
24: 2017 - LISF 2 Tone Thames cruise (due to overwhelming demand for tickets second date added)
24: 2017 - Cleopatra Records put Neville Staple in a wig for new Return Of Judge Roughneck
24: 2017 - Trojan Records release a 2CD The Best of The Skatalites
23: 1991 - The Cosmics Godfather Ska recorded live at the Tic Toc Club, Coventry, UK for limited 500 flexidisc with SKACTUALITES 'zine #7
23: 1991 - The Cosmics Cool Smoke recorded live at the Tic Toc Club, Coventry, UK for limited 500 flexidisc free with SKACTUALITES 'zine #7
23: 1980 - Selecter Too Much Pressure out a week later than anticipated; Pauline and Gaps on the cover of NME
21: 1980 - Smash Hits has a Madness centerfold
20: 1998 - on Late Night with Conan O'Brien #897, musical guest is Hepcat
18: 2017 - Hypnotic Clambake at Abilene or 5head dance craze shoe Dino BBQ?
17: 2017 - new Madness Total Madness 2LP red 180g hits collection out
17: 2015 - check that Oneonta Ska Society
17: 2017 - Jimmy Marconi at 40, also the Majestics (w/Freedom Trio) return to Lovin' Cup $10, 9pm sharp
15: 2007 - apparently find a Monkey Business single disc 1995 cutout FYE Eastview
15: 1980 - ringwear? Elvis Costello and the Attractions get Stax of praise
14: 1991 - Bad Manners at Uxbridge Brunel Academy, West London
12: 1970 - Jump Up and Shout Chuck Wren born
11: 2015 - hoi polloi on Jeopardy
11: 2005 - Doc Awk in newspaper re: Reggae Radio
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire Brewing, Rochester NY, also R.I.P. Lord Kitchener, aged 77 (Doctor Kitch)
11: 1995 - the Miggedys live at HBB
10: 2017 - full moon, an eclipse, a comet, plus Asian Man Records retread of classic Let's Go Bowling/ Moon Records vinyl issues ship
10: 1984 - BAM #175 (Bay Area Music magazine) the Clash cover
9: 1980 - Record Mirror Pauline: slashed with a broken bottle? Madness: would Olivia dance with these boys?
8: 1990 - Included is a free A2-sized poster of the ska lampoon zombie (Toasters live longplayer) today on Unicorn Records
8: 1980 - The Specials live at the Whisky A Go Go (Los Angeles CA USA) 9pm, $6.50
7: 2003 - The Beat at the Royal Albert Hall UK it's recorded for MVD dvd
7: 1980 - Madness Strikes America says Chris Morris in Rolling Stone #310
6: 1945 - Bob Marley born
5: 2017 - Ska Brewing World Headquarters now open sundays at 225 Girard St. Durango, CO 81303
4: 1980 - Madness bootleg Mistakes 2LP recorded at The Paradise Ballroom, Boston MA
3: 2017 - William Snyder Picturing The Who at rgallery opening reception 6-9pm
3: 2017 - King Kong Four have two tracks out now "wedged uncomfortably between early Elvis Costello and the Specials first album"
3: 1980 - Record Mirror has Specials/ Blondie/ UFO
2: 2004 - the Miggedys Destined for Mispronunciation (would be MR103) final mixes
2: 1995 - R.I.P. Fred Perry, aged 85
1: 2017 - RSS feed with Charles and Steve!
Feb 1995 - Skinhead Times #16, the farewell issue
Feb 1985 - No.1 Magazine UK has Prince Madness Wham Smiths Marc Almond
Feb 1985 - Jamming #25 The Madness Empire Strikes Back
January 2017
29: 1990 - Ian McCann (NME) favorable mention of Unicorn PHZA-49, No Sports' King Ska
29: 1979 - Ska JoE Hanson from the OC Ska, com born
26: 1980 - RECORD MIRROR Joe Jackson Madness The Ramones The End
26: 1980 - The Beat w/ U.B.40, Akrylykz (early Roland Gift) at Electric Ballroom London 7:30
26: 1980 - Phil Sutcliffe traces the torturous roots of the Selecter in Sounds this week
25: 2017 - R.I.P. Ronnie Davis, aged 67 (singer in rocksteady group The Tennors) see the Toasters' Ska Island track The Stage for a notable cover
25: 2017 - R.I.P. John Hurt CBE, aged 77 (see him in 1989's Scandal for more)
25: 2017 - R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore, aged 80 (See Lionsclub feat Wilson from EST for more)
21: 2017 - National Hug Day? Lloyd Bradley is 62
21: 1974 - Chicago DJ Darren Reggae born
20: 2017 - this Charmin man? DP Kress at 40
20: 1971 - K. Conrad born
17: 2004 - Not that Joe Gibbs
17: 1981 - Black Echoes spotlight on Rico Rodriguez – cover scan is now in the liners of his 2016 reissue 2CD
16: 2017 - Dr. MLK Jr Day, see that UB40 tune "King" for more
15: 2017 - Wailers at Anthology Rochester (Wil McKenna & the) Medicinals open 7pm 16+ $25
15: 1999 - Steve Pietaster silver platform boots Water St
14: 2017 - Pietasters, Abruptors at IronWorks Buffalo $20
14: 2000 - Allstonians live UR Wilson Commons coffeehouse, it's recorded
14: 1994 - Billboard® magazine issue deems SKA the next big thing
13: 2017 - R.I.P. The Sunday Night Shakedown (local radio show) farewell at Record Archive 6pm
13: 2016 - Rocksteady 7 in New York Times Crossword page
12: 2017 - full wolf moon, 6:34am EST
12: 1990 - Goldmine #247 cover Bob Marley and the Wailers (w/discography) by Timothy White
12: 1980 - LOOK-IN TOM BAKER DR WHO SELECTER TWO TONE SKA
11: 1997 - Go Go Rays/ Lettuce Boy/ Creepers/ Too Hectic/ Miggedys at Mercury Theatre, Buffalo NY $5
11: 1980 - Too Much Too Young Live E.P. out – Terry Hall Sr. praises his son in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, later the back sleeve
8: 1983 - The Return of The General: Jerry Dammers interview w/ Neil Spencer NME
3: 2004 - Young, Gifted & Black history of Trojan Records paperback via Barnes & Noble
2: 2004 - Auld Lang Syne found on a Party Party Soundtrack (1982 Karussel Germany) cutout, FYE Eastview
1: 2017 - Sir Ray Davies named Commander of British Empire!
1: 1983 - Mad hatter? Suggsy bowler hat on cover of Sounds this week
Jan 2007 - Swindle #9 quarterly Miss Van/ Screenprinting/ Legends of Ska/ Disco Demolition
Jan 1995 - Oz-Ska-Lia #2 from Ivan Downey and Vic Elsternwick, down undah
December
31: 2016 - New Year's Eve with GPGDS + JBB at Anthology Rochester NY
31: 2016 - Some Ska Band at Thirsty Turtle in Victor NY 8-10pm
31: 1985 - Rare 12" Mad Not Mad Party (Madness Live at Hammersmith Odeon London 31-12-85) blue vinyl
30: 2016 - The Skatalites + Planet Smashers at the 19th annual hometown throwdown!
30: 2001 - Josh Lyons' big article in the D&C Sunday Living Section
30: 1990 - LISF V at the Sir George Robey
29: 2016 - The Porkers all the way to the 19th annual hometown throwdown!
29: 1990 - LISF V at the Sir George Robey
29: 1995 - the impossible Ska Trax Next Generation Volume 2 (on Wanja Glokler's) heatwave blacklabel Germany #008 out?
28: 1995 - R.I.P. David Molina (Let's Go Bowling)
27: 1995 - Skaos D, The Porkers AU, Skaferlatine F, Beatbusters NL at Hyde Park, Osnabruck Germany
27: 1980 - RECORD MIRROR has eight pages of Madness
26: 2016 - R.I.P. Carrie Fisher, aged 60
26: 2016 - Ska-Xing Day 7pm $15 all ages: Starpool, Fishbone, Aggrolites + more in Santa Ana CA
25: 2016 - R.I.P. George Michael, aged 53
25: 2016 - I can't go on in this cold weather/ Christmas comes but once a year/ It's a time of love and cheer
23: 2016 - Busters to release SKA BANG '87 a 30-song, 30-year anniversary doppel-live album!
22: 1979 - Ranking Roger boombox on Sounds
21: 2011 - Belle Stars on SMRSLT
21: 1979 - Madness out with My Girl 12" single, BUYIT62
17: 2016 - Noble Vibes Firehouse Saloon, also Slackers return to the Bell House Brooklyn annual holiday show
15: 2008 - BLUE BEAT!
15: 2001 - R.I.P. Rufus Thomas, aged 84
14: 2016 - full moon
14: 1979 - epic London Calling released today
13: 1998 - Vic & Dave Ithaca NY
11: 1982 - Bill Graham presents The English Beat backstage guest pass
10: 2016 - Viva Ska Vegas
10: 2016 - Trojan Records' Christmas Party at The Social, London W1
10: 1990 - PHZA-78 Skankin' 'Round The World #5 (fifth and final international ska compilation) out today
9: 2016 - Viva Ska Vegas
9: 2016 - King Prawn/ Shocks of Mighty/ Pama Int'l/ and Don Letts at the Garage London N5
8: 2016 - Beer in Review, Dave Thibodeau Denver Post
7: 2006 - Ska Brawl 06: Toasters, Supervillians, Waffle Stompers, Endive, Mrs. Skannotto at the haunt in Ithaca NY 8pm 10/$12 DOS
3: 2016 - 2Tone Thames Cruise, (DJ Rhoda Dakar spins) London International Ska Festival Christmas Party
3: 2014 - R.I.P. Graeme Goodall, aged 82
3: 2004 - Jammyland Allstars w/ reggae librarian Susan Cadogan at Club Seho, NYC it's recorded
3: 1995 - Bosstones UR Palestra
1: 2016 - R.I.P. Michael Hugh Fitzsimmons, bka Micky Fitz, aged 57. He fronted The Business nearly 40 years!
Dec 2016 - Heavy Soul #35 has The Jam, Paul Anderson, Georgie Fame, Ska, Weller
Dec 2016 - MOJO #277 has R.E.M. also Ska-Boom! an eyewitness look back at the 2Tone Tour of '79
Dec 2016 - Do The Dog Skazine #84 (Prince Buster) by Kevin Flowerdew
Dec 2016 - Street Sounds #16 by Paul Hallam
Dec 2009 - The Word #82 The Specials Madness Ska Chris Evans Jo Brand...The Crucifixion of Lily Allen
Dec 2006 - Ska In the World #21 (Tokyo JP) has Slackers, King Django, more
Dec 1986 - UK mod label UNICORN RECORDS begins releasing Ska with NYC's Toasters Pool Shark longplayer
Dec 1982 - The Rocket (Seattle WA) monthly entertainment newspaper with English Beat on front cover
Dec 1982 - Trouser Press #80 Adam Ant Joe Jackson Bananarama English Beat Talk Talk Black Uhuru Who
Dec 1981 - Nutty Boys #4 Christmas comix and fan club contest winners
November
28: 2016 - A Message To You Rudy [TT5] is being used in a Fidelity Investments spot. That's a message to others that you're middle-aged af now
25: 2016 - Buy Nothing Day! also Some Ska Band at the bside in Fairport NY, 8-11 PM
25: 1995 - Toasters, Mephiskapheles, SHJ at Tuxedo Junction Danbury CT
24: 2016 - my supper dish my succotash wish... Eric Barnet FAT TURKEY on Pama Supreme
24: 2003 - Primus Landmark Theatre
22: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim + Toasters Buffalo
22: 1982 - TT23 war crimes (the crime remains the same) out today
21: 2012 - radio active Thunder Body CD release party at Abilene
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso aged 67, also Slackers The Question out on Hellcat
19: 1982 - The English Beat live at the Opera House, Boston MA it's recorded (for What Is Beat? I.R.S. Records USA)
19: 1981 - Madness (SEVEN tour) + the Belle Stars hit Hammersmith Palais 8pm
18: 2016 - R.I.P. Miss Sharon Jones, aged 60
18: 2016 - Expanded set of Rico's classic 1977 Man from Wareika/ Wareika Dub released [2XCD New] on Caroline NL/ Island UK
18: 2016 - Best Of Millie Small [CD New] Caroline International/ uses Windsor Elongated just like OZ CALENDER PRESSING SR669798
17: 2012 - Stranger Cole + more at Jamaican Oldies Weekend Chicago IL by Jump Up Records, art by ChemaSkandal
16: 2012 - Pat Kelly + more at Jamaican Oldies Weekend Chicago IL by Jump Up Records, art by ChemaSkandal
16: 2001 - Toasters +2 Club at Water Street
15: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim, Rudie Dance Brass Band, skaFest at the Globe Theatre Norwalk CT
15: 1980 - Melody Maker cover "Tracking the new Selecter" also Dire Straits/ SLF/ Paul Simon
14: 2016 - closest Supermoon since 1948 arrives Monday, tips on seeing and photographing it
14: 1983 - R.I.P. Colin Fulcher, aged 41. aka Barney Bubbles, he was the art guy for Stiff Records
11: 2016 - R.I.P. Robert Vaughn (sometimes aka Napoleon Solo), aged 83. also heard Op Ivy at the record store 4pm EST
11: 1995 - Spring Heeled Jack, Blue Meanies & Mephiskapheles at Penn State University
11: 1994 - Tonomon turns 33
10: 2001 - Ken Kesey dies, also HP7 completed
10: 1995 - Moon Records Ska Showcase with Let's Go Bowling/ Allstonians/ Spring Heeled Jack (at Wetlands)
10: 1994 - Miggedys at HBB
9: 2015 - Vic Ruggiero combo live ButaPub, its recorded
7: 2016 - R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, aged 82
7: 1996 - The Trojans perform at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
6: 2016 - Mark and RussT's 42-table record fair
5: 2016 - remember, remember ...a half-century of Duff Guy!
3: 1979 - Record Mirror: Knack, Buggles, Fleetwood Mac, Specials
Nov 2016 - UNCUT #234 has The Specials, Bob Weir, Peter Hook, Leonard Cohen all featured in this issue
Nov 2016 - MOJO #276 David Katz remembers Prince Buster
Nov 2016 - Record Collector #459 Laurence Cane-Honeysett remembers Prince Buster
Nov 1996 - KSU.EDU Phil Kellum's Trouble Bound #5 out
Nov 1970 - Trojan releases matrix TBL135, its LOCH NESS MONSTER compilation LP
October
31: 2016 - Monday Night Halloween
31: 2003 - Pietasters +2 Halloween at Continental (Buffalo)
31: 1996 - Rico at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
30: 2008 - Trojans w/ Rico present a Memorial tribute to Damian Korner at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
30: 1988 - NY Citizens, The Panic (lka Bigger Thomas) Cat Club 13th St Manhattan 16+
29: 2016 - Pietasters + Mephiskapheles Philly PA
29: 1990 - Trojan Records release western collection TRLS263: The Magnificent Fourteen
28: 2016 - Madness's 11th album, Can't Touch Us Now out in UK today
27: 1979 - Melody Maker has that Specials LP advert opposite a House Of Guitars tee
26: 1993 - THE SHACK international Ska compilation compiled by BiB Records Boston MA; CD only – two more will follow in the coming decades
25: 2010 - R.I.P. Gregory Isaacs, aged 59
25: 2004 - R.I.P. John Peel OBE, aged 65
24: 1997 - Scofflaws Rochester Institute of Technology
23: 2016 - Know your product? Lint-darlings the Interrupters upstairs at Waiting Room, Buffalo
23: 1996 - Mephiskapheles Showplace Buffalo NY it's recorded
23: 1992 - Your future? Skaface (Toronto) at Horizontal Boogie Bar Rochester 18+ $6/7
22: 1991 - Let's Go Bowling full length CD (and chromium cassette) on Moon Records 027
20: 1979 - that famous photo of all the 2Tone bands on Hove Beach taken
18: 2016 - R.I.P. Bobby Ellis, aged 84
18: 1980 - NME has Pretenders/ Specials/ The Kinks/ Selecter
15: 2016 - full moon 7pm EDT, also Burn It Up (fka Mrs. Skannotto) CD release party Flour City Station
13: 1997 - Selecter Rochester NY
13: 1979 - Joe Jackson emerges from the NYC subway on Sounds this week
11: 1993 - Chrysalis/ Toshiba The Best Of 2Tone CD out in Japan
10: 2016 - Selecter San Francisco CA
9: 2016 - plaid clad Bosstones cameo in The Simpsons #599 The Town
8: 2016 - Selecter Denver CO
7: 2016 - Susan Cadogan releases new EP Take Me Back – produced by Canadian ska/ reggae stalwart Mitch 'King Kong' Apparatus
7: 2016 - 4th annual Cassette Store Day, also Selecter Chicago IL
6: 2016 - Selecter Gramercy Theatre NYC
6: 2016 - Little Millie Small turns 70 today, also Reggae Workers of the World + Abruptors at Mohawk Place Buffalo $10/ 8pm
6: 1994 - Bosstones on Jon Stewart Show
5: 2007 - This Is England opens at The Little Theatre and runs a week. Do the reggae popcorn & trainspot the temporal discrepancies!
4: 2016 - Ghost Town heard on muzak at empty bookstore as I locate their final copy of VLR#38, what 7:30pm?!
3: 2015 - Fiesta La Mass is a live compilation CD featuring Toasters, Oi Polloi, Mark Foggo's Skasters +10 more recorded in Rennes France
2: 2015 - Fiesta La Mass is a live compilation CD featuring Toasters, Oi Polloi, Mark Foggo's Skasters +10 more recorded in Rennes France
October 2016 - Classic Pop Magazine has Madness, Barry Gibb, The Cure, Prince!
October 1990 - Music Collector has Janet Jackson, TMBG, and 2Tone
October 1990 - Record Hunter has Doors year 1, Ramones in Japan, an illustrated 2Tone Discography
October 1981 - Nutty Boys #3 Dispenser meets the Seven Little Elves, presented by Riot Ink
September
29: 2016 - R.I.P. Nora Dean, aged 72
29: 2016 - Les Claypool at 53, also Planet Smashers AND Stranger Cole eat poutine with Lolo at the 8th edition of The Montreal Int'l Ska Festival
28: 2016 - The Simpsons #597 Monty Burns Fleeing Circus (pool party scene feat. trombone by Rico Rodriguez)
27: 2008 - Negative Image Scooter Club Rally inna Webster Park Campground
27: 1980 - Melody Maker Jon Anderson YES reborn, Lennon, but the end of an era for The Specials
27: 1979 - The Police walk the moon
26: 1980 - Baggy Trousers? 2nd Madness album, Absolutely, hits shops today
25: 2006 - 40 Various Trojan Creole Recordings collected: Black Magic Reggae Castle Pulse PDSCD 666 – out now
25: 1979 - TT4 On My Radio b/w Too Much Pressure 45 released today (goes to #8 in the chart), Joe Jackson I'm the Man too
24: 2016 - Burn It Up (fka Mrs. Skannotto) Fringe Festival Gibbs Street Stage 8:40pm, also big ups to DGTS
24: 2016 - Alex fills in for Solomon Intensified '68 on WAYO FM, 5-6pm EST
24: 2016 - Cecil Prince Buster Campbell laid to rest in May Pen parish, 2pm
23: 2016 - Some Ska Band – the who's on first of ska bands – performing live at bside in Fairport NY, 8pm
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian CE Oster, aged 30; exactly ten years since his beloved Chawalaleng (Pilfers) out
21: 1979 - Paul Simonon smashes his bass onstage at The Palladium NYC
17: 2016 - Specials Minneapolis First Avenue
16: 2016 - full moon 19:05 UTC
15: 1995 - Moon Records ships MR052, Scofflaws In Hi-Fi... CD only
15: 1979 - Madness signs with Stiff Records
14: 2016 - Riot Fest Chicago 2016 begins and runs all weekend
14: 2016 - Big D & The Kid's Table w/ Burn it Up, So Last Year 9pm at Bug Jar Rochester NY $15 DOS
13: 2016 - Specials Toronto Danforth
12: 2016 - Specials Boston HOB, also Generoso Fierro remembers Prince Buster
9: 2016 - Specials kick off North American tour, returning to Terminal 5 NYC
9: 1978 - Clash go on strike because the radio doesn't play their records enough
8: 2016 - R.I.P. Prince Buster, aged 78
4: 2015 - R.I.P. Mr. Rico on trombone, age 80
Sept 2016 - WaxPoetics #65 has A Tribe called Quest/Bowie (+ a Northern Soul feature) & more
Sept 2016 - Do The Dog Skazine #83 again featuring The Abruptors (Buffalo NY)
Sept 2016 - Mojo 274 includes Jamaican Explosion CD (pre-reggae gems), Bob Marley in 1976 and more
Sept 2012 - Mojo 226 includes Electricity CD, how electronic music saved Bowie, international Ska wars (The Beat)
August
31: 2016 - R.I.P. Nathan Lyons, aged 86
31: 1996 - Let's Go Bowling in Portland OR
29: 2016 - Charles interviews Gary Powell on RSS
27: 2016 - R.I.P. Bones WPB KOMS MVP RR FUA, aged 36 (he may be the reason we never finished HP#9?)
27: 1997 - VooDoo Glowskulls, Pietasters, Snapcase at Water Street Music Hall (it's recorded, with interview for Universal Buzz Radio)
27: 1979 - a Madness Peel Session aired beeb the first time
26: 2016 - Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra live at the 100 Club, Oxford St. London
25: 1979 - New Musical Express Ian Penman reviews the Intensified compilation (Island/ Mango)
24: 1981 - John Blake Ad Lib re: Gossips Dean Street SoHo, where David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Jerry Hall (sic) seen
23: 1996 - That's the day Josh Lyons chose the right. Everybody said it wouldn't last
22: 2016 - waiting for the days to go go go Slackers return to Mohawk Place Buffalo NY
22: 2006 - our TSPO hits mix
21: 2016 - R.I.P. Felix Bennett, OD aka "Deadly Headley", aged 85
20: 2016 - Noble Vibes Buffalo Caribbean Festival 8pm, River Fest Park on Ohio Street
20: 2016 - Great Northern Ska Festival in Manchester UK (the Beat/ Dawn Penn/ The Toasters/ Selecter/ King Hammond/ Dualers/ Rhoda + more)
20: 2016 - Pepsi Ska Fest, Mexico City! Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Aggrolites
19: 2016 - Noble Vibes 6-8pm The Vet's Memorial Park Town of Henrietta 595 Calkins Road, Rochester NY 14623
18: 2016 - full moon at 9:27 UTC
17: 1990 - Woodska '90 is a three-day weekender with two dozen bands in Guerneville CA
16: 2003 - the release of HP8
14: 2016 - Midwest Skafest .Org
14: 1979 - Madness record first Peel Session for BBC. Bob Sargeant as producer
14: 1976 - if it ain't stiff... Stiff Records started
13: 2016 - Pepsi Ska Fest, Mexico City! Bosstones, Save Ferris, Left Alone
13: 2016 - 20th annual Skappelton Fest at Tanner's Grill & Bar in Kimberly, WI
13: 2016 - Reggae Fest Chicago 2016 begins! the return of Toots & The Maytals, plus Hepcat, Lee Perry, Derrick Morgan, and many more
12: 2016 - Maytals Monkey Man new vinyl release date: 12 August 2016 Label Sanctuary (USA)
11: 2016 - Aston Familyman Barrett & his Wailers return to Rochester's weekly 'party in the park' 8:30-10pm free
10: 2016 - MichelleSka is 40
10: 2000 - MichelleSka is 24, also DH Rocksteady 7 w/Blackouts & Motives, Rochester
9: 1996 - Roger Fisk went into politics since – Allstonians +3 at Styleens Rhythm Palace Armory Square Syracuse NY
8: 2015 - Toasters + English Beat 7-11pm The Spirit of the Eighties concert $20 Academy Park 851 Center St, Lewiston NY 14092
8: 1992 - Madness' Madstock live at Finsbury Park it's recorded for CD & VHS
8: 1981 - New Musical Express: Cafe. Is. Open. The Specials Ending of an Era? by Paul Du Noyer
7: 2016 - R.I.P. John Vaccaro, aged 86
6: 2016 - Los Angeles Skacore Invasion 10 Year Anniversary, $25, Plaza de la Raza Lincoln Park Los Angeles 90031
4: 2016 - El T at 38, baby
August 2016 - Vive Le Rock #38 is a massive 2Tone article and cover
July
28: 2007 - Aggrolites Club Diablo Buffalo
28: 1998 - The Specials Warped Tour LaSalle Park Buffalo
28: 1967 - Island Records creates an imprint for Duke Reid productions "Trojan Records"
27: 1987 - D. Dekker, L. Aitken, Maroon Town, Trojans at Gaz's Rockin Blues, Soho
26: 2000 - Steve Fennessy Heck's Angels: revival of classic Italian scooters is speeding up, and Rochester's along for the ride. Democrat & Chronicle
25: 1989 - It's a Skandal! a new compilation of German ska bands on Unicorn PHZA-46 UK – Pork Pie Germany licenses later
22: 1989 - Bad Manners, Laurel Aitken, Bim Skala Bim at Syracuse Elks
22: 1980 - US Weekly has The Selecter reviewed nearby Star Wars
21: 1996 - Pietasters, Checkered Cabs, Chris Murray, Miggedys, Wetlands NYC
21: 1980 - papers say Selecter quit 2Tone label
19: 1969 - Do the moon hop!
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Lorenzo Aitken, Godfather of Ska, aged 78
16: 1941 - Desmond Adolphus Dacres born in St. Andrew, Jamaica
15: 2016 - Easy Star All Stars Radio Dread 10th Anniversary Concert (Electric Ballroom, London)
14: 1995 - Bim, Selecter, House Of Rhythm concert-freebie Marquee (London); Fri 14/7/95 Dojo – DO SKA 1 Vinyl 7" Limited Edition Promo
13: 1997 - CNY Ska Fest (Too Hectic final show), drawn poster by Elliott Mattice Syracuse NY
11: 2015 - Noble Vibes with The Majestics at Lovin' Cup Bistro
11: 2013 - Skatalites/ JBB at Party In The Parkinglot, Rochester
11: 1966 - 7-Eleven pioneers its Slurpee fountain drink
10: 2016 - Introducing the NYC Ska Orchestra a brand-new 18-piece big band debuts at Brooklyn Bowl
9: 2016 - Niagara Reggae Fest at Bissell's Hideaway Resort 205 Metler Road Ridgeville, ON (Canada) $20 / $50 with camping
5: 2016 - R.I.P. Clyde Grimes, Jr. lead guitarist and main songwriter of L.A.'s Untouchables (He's a City Gent)
July 2015 - Vive Le Rock #27 The Who at 50/ Mods Mayday!/ Chords/ Lambrettas/ Secret Affair
July 2001 - Discoveries #158 Bob Marley Brought Reggae to America
July 1992 - Skinhead Times #7 the return of Joe Hawkins
June
30: 2005 - R.I.P. Clancy Eccles, age 64. Shu Be Du
29: 2014 - LTSO at Glastonbury it's recorded
28: 2002 - Toasters, live at CBGB OMFUG it's recorded
26: 2016 - The Majestics open this year's Xerox Rochester Int'l Jazz Festival two sets 7 & 9pm, free
25: 2016 - Dave Wakeling English Beat, Soul Asylum at Royale, 279 Tremont Street in Boston, MA 18+, $30 7pm
24: 2016 - R.I.P. Bernie Worrell, aged 72. Also The Interrupters release their 2nd album on Hellcat Records today
22: 2016 - Chris Blackwell turns 79, also big things in BC Victoria's 17th Annual Ska & Reggae Festival June 22 - 26th
22: 2003 - Prince Buster & The Aggrolites at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, it's recorded
22: 1948 - Empire Windrush, first ship of Jamaican immigrants to the UK
21: 2015 - MSO at Sierra Nevada Music Fest it's recorded
21: 1990 - Toasters, live in Rochester at at Scorgies, 150 Andrews St
21: 1985 - The Untouchables at Glastonbury, it's recorded by beeb
20: 2016 - full strawberry moon NY at 07:02 am (EDT) the first once since 1967
19: 2016 - Skamela + Duff Guide to Ska do an all day, all-star, outdoor Ska Fest benefiting Roy Radics' family at The Well in Brooklyn
18: 1999 - Hoi Polloi Ska 'zine interview in Worm Hole #15 typed out
17: 2016 - if you live in OC California + have this much of an attention span = you have heard of Ska already
16: 2016 - R.I.P. Michael deKoningh, aged 58
16: 2016 - It's now thirty years since Unicorn Records started London by Mark Johnson. Black Butcher (Germany) reissued a few 2015
16: 1999 - Toasters, live in Rochester 21+ Bug Jar/ the release of HP6
12: 2014 - Ghost Cowboys released on Golden Singles Records today
12: 1989 - Toasters, live in Islington London UK (it's recorded for PHZA-60)
11: 2016 - Some Ska Band at Thirsty's 45th Anniversary Weekend four corners Pittsford NY 6:30-8:30pm
11: 1986 - Save Ferris? John Hughes puts the Beat's March Of The Swivelheads to final sequence of Ferris Bueller's Day Off
10: 2016 - Some Ska Band returns to Rush NY Library Gazebo Summer Concert Series Friday night 6:30p
10: 2016 - R.I.P. Mr. Hockey, aka Uncle Gordie Howe #9, aged 88
9: 2016 - Matt Malles is 50, also R.I.P. Dan Klein of the Frightnrs
6: 1964 - Millie's My Boy Lollipop reaches #2 in the U.S.A. this week
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles Rochester/ the release of HP4
4: 2016 - Intensified '68 on WAYO 104.3 FM 5-6pm
4: 2016 - Bad Manners 40th Anniv Scotland at Warehouse Falkirk - Burnbank Road 18+ 3PM £20
4: 1989 - June fourth 'incident'
3: 2016 - R.I.P. Muhammad Ali, aged 74 "the Greatest" once visited our high school '94. Plenty of ska/ reggae tracks to honor him over the years
2: 2016 - Dr. Ritchie at 46!
2: 2001 - Bloo, Angelo Moore, Mephiskapheles, Toasters, Bosstones at Bowery Ballroom NYC
2: 1979 - Record Mirror Mods & Sods! Chords, Jam and others +Bee Gees
June 2003 - Planet Smashers' Mighty out
June 1998 - Cosmic Haystack #6 Evan North uses a barcode
June 1996 - She Came From Oyer's Basement is a compilation of Miggedys and friends from Pittsford NY 14534; exec producer is Amy Hitchcock
May
29: 2016 - ten years have got behind you
26: 1985 - Toasters' Recriminations E.P. release party is at Danceteria, 20 West 21st St, NYC 10pm
26: 1980 - (Monday) Specials at Pinkpop Festival, Holland it's recorded
26: 1979 - (Saturday) Special AKA at Boogie House, Norwich, UK
26: 1972 - Stevie Wonder records 'Superstition'
25: 2009 - Duane Sherwood RE: The Prince
25: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Adolphus Dacres, aged 64
25: 1996 - R.I.P. Brad Nowell, aged 28 (Sublime with Rome is not the same thing as Sublime)
24: 2016 - Prince Buster at 78, also Riki Rocksteady w/ Thaddeus Merritt Trio in Somerville MA
23: 1996 - Toasters greenbox VHS recorded at the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A.; Bucket interviewed for Reggae Nucleus #2 at this gig
22: 2002 - Kyoko Fukada & The Two Tones Route 246 CD single out!
21: 2016 - "History Book" heard on CBS This Morning: Saturday, a full moon 5:21 PM EST, also Evil Dead 35mm screening at Little Theatre, 9:30p
21: 1980 - Bad Manners new 45 – Lip Up Fatty b/w Night Bus To Dalston out
20: 2016 - Joe Scholes at 50
12: 2014 - The Beat: The Complete Studio Recordings (Esdel Beatmobile 4CD Box) out
11: 1981 - R.I.P. Hon Robert Nesta Marley OM, aged 36
10: 2016 - Matisyahu at Lilac Festival free show
10: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca; you can read a review of it in HP#2
9: 2006 - Aggrolites' big company release out
8: 2016 - Los Straitjackets at Lilac Festival free show
6: 2016 - Pete Porker at 50, also Joe Viex in Newsweek
6: 1989 - The Mod/Ska show: Scofflaws, NY Citizens, The Grip Weeds 6-10pm at the Pyramid, 101 Ave A $6
5: 2005 - Christine 'Spike' Nelson & Mike 'Bruce Lee' Park meet up at Water St
5: 2004 - R.I.P. Sir Coxone Dodd, aged 72
5: 1998 - R.I.P. Tommy McCook, aged 71
4: 2007 - Tom Skalapeño, Seth Voorhees, Slackers +4 Kodak Park (California Brew Haus), it's recorded
2: 2000 - significance of a new Bosstones record on Island/Def Jam?
2: 1985 - Lily Allen born
1: 2016 - after 18 years and several national tours, Mrs. Skannotto change their name to Burn It Up
May 2016 - Street Sounds #14 Ska Bonanza Roy Ellis Festival Skamouth on cover
May 2015 - Street Sounds #11 Kevin Rowland returns
May 2009 - Record Collector #362 Jamaican Gold Part II
May 2000 - CMJ New Music #81 Dicky Bosstone cover
May 1988 - Zoot #8 out, comes with a Capone & The Bullets /Bim Skala Bim flexi
May 1979 - Jam Pact tour book
April
30: 2016 - The Majestics, live at Skylark Lounge 10pm sharp
30: 1999 - illegal to resell Madness/ Irving Plaza NYC/ 8pm doors/ $28
30: 1988 - Hotknives' debut LP is recorded tonight Live at the Boatman (aka Hampton Court, London)
29: 1992 - riots in L.A. (after Rodney King verdict)
28: 2015 - Roddy Radiation/ Scotch Bonnets/ Ronald Raygun/ Ruben Lipkind Doc Marten SoundSystem at Mohawk Place Buffalo NY
28: 2001 - new Anthony Modano 1C devil graphic used for advert of MMB, KITH, Blackouts at Kuhl Gym, SUNY Geneseo
28: 1999 - first version of this site up
27: 2004 - Mustard Plug (Ska is Dead tour) Rochester
27: 2000 - Spider Nick & The Maddogs return to Water St Music Hall, Blackouts support
27: 1998 - Mustard Plug (Ska Against Racism tour) Rochester
26: 1998 - Bosstones Roseland Ballroom NYC, it's recorded for MTV
26: 1988 - Bad Manners's return to Plymouth Academy/ support by The Rhythm Machine
25: 1992 - George Carlin Jammin In New York Paramount Theatre MSG NYC it's recorded
24: 2008 - Rochester NY Mayor Robert J. Duffy proclamation that today be Frank De Blase Day
24: 1998 - Bosstones in UK for Top Of The Pops
22: 2017 - Crooket Beat Records DC presents Recutting The Crap Clash Tribute + pic disc
22: 2016 - Laurel Aitken's 89th birthday, also full moon 1:24 am NY (EDT), Seattle Ska Fest weekender
22: 1967 - Laurel Aitken's 40th birthday, also New Musical Express interviews Prince Buster during his On Tour circuit thru UK
21: 2016 - R.I.P. Prince Nelson Rogers, aged 57
21: 1990 - historic attendance for Earth Day Ska Fest at UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre today from noon - 11pm
19: 2016 - R.I.P. Lord Tanamo, aged 82... also Les Waas, aged 94
18: 2015 - BMG does Trojan now?! + sixteen more LPs soon come for UK reggae giant's reboot in USA
17: 2008 - Dekker lettering rebuilt, shirts July 2014
17: 1998 - The Specials/ Avalon/ Boston/ 6pm doors/ $17
17: 1995 - MMB Harro East
16: 2016 - what is Ska for $600 (Jeopardy #7091 rerun), also 5head Sticky Lips BBQ Jefferson Road
16: 2016 - your guide to RSD '16
16: 2016 - Title Town Day 2/ 7PM Big D & The Kids Table, Counterpunch, Doped-Up Dollies, The Far East, The Pomps 18+, $15 adv, $18 doors
15: 2016 - Title Town Day 1/ 8PM Westbound Train, Have Nots, Nick and the Adversaries 18+, $13 adv, $15 doors
15: 1996 - Skatalites w/ Too Hectic in Ithaca NY split-fountain letterpress carnival poster
12: 2016 - Charles Benoit's Snow Job hardback signing at Barnes & Noble Greece NY 7pm – this novel dedicated to Ramones, Joan Jett
12: 1997 - Miggedys, Professionals, NC 13s, DLO, SMA pipe burst Lost Horizon Syracuse NY
12: 1986 - Ramones come to UR's Alexander Palestra, (Saturday) 8pm
10: 2016 - Los Angeles Times says something about Ska in its weekend section
9: 2016 - Moobaks at 37
8: 1997 - Mustard Plug show #424 is Rochester's Milestones w/ Twistoffs (Bechle's astrovan robbed)
8: 1977 - The Clash eponymous debut album released in UK on CBS Records
7: 2016 - AMFS presents encore screening of the The Art and Life of David Bowie at the MAG, 500 University Ave 6:30pm, free
7: 2016 - Talk cold type revolution with Ed Benguiat?! Conversation facilitated by Kris Holmes 3pm, R.I.T. Cary Graphic Arts Collection
6: 2016 - Ska Brewing Durango Mexican Logger returns
5: 1980 - this week's Fab 208 has The Tourists, Buggles, Specials and Beat
2: 2016 - The Slackers new record release party Bell House in Brooklyn! 9pm
1: 2004 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad w/ Mountain Mojo Authority at Star Bar, color poster by John Perry
Apr 2016 - Street Sounds #14 Roy Ellis Ska Bonanza
Apr 1998 - Rhubarb Pie #5 retro 'zine from two girls in Aptos CA
Apr 1992 - Let's Catch The Beat #10 dandy typewritten reggae 'zine by Chris Prete for the Official Trojan Appreciation Society
Apr 1984 - Reggae and African Beat features Alton Ellis
March
31: 2016 - new Selecter Subculture from Bop Shop Records, 5:47pm
31: 1994 – Skanxters Gossips Club in Soho (Shane MacGowan & Lee Thompson in attendance!)
30: 2016 - Dick 'the Dancing Record' Storms turns 70, also Voodoo Glow Skulls, Seven Thirty Seven +1 at Mohawk Buffalo.
29: 2003 - Ska World #1 the new zine from Chris Murray + crew out at Ska Summit, Las Vegas NV
29: 1980 - don't read that.. read Jackie UK teenmag's 2Tone special report
28: 2016 - Big up to DGTS!
28: 2014 - RBG on RSS feed
27: 2016 - (Easter Sunday) Bad Manners celebrate their 40th anniversary at Day 4 LISF
27: 2015 - Nashville TN Soul Radics 2nd album, Big Shot CD/LP released on Germany's Grover Records GRO-125!
26: 2003 - Rocksteady 7 at Montys
26: 1996 - MR067 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. Special Potato reissue 3/19/02 +3 tracks from the original recording sessions as bonus
25: 2006 - the return of Dave Wakeling's Beat, WSMH 8pm
25: 2004 - Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra WSMH Rochester NY 9pm $10 adv/12 dos
25: 1998 - Hoi Polloi #5 completion date
25: 1976 - David Bowie Iggy Pop pot bust Rochester NY mug shot
24: 2016 - start of the annual London International Ska Festival weekender
23: 2016 - full moon
23: 1996 - NYC SKA comes to bigvax.alfred.edu Davis Gym bad PA
23: 1995 - Simple Song? Bim Skala Bim w/ Miggedys at the Horizontal Boogie Bar – acquire the superb Mash it Up! Vol. #3 here
23: 1989 - Trojans, SkaDows, Judge Dread, Loafers, Potato 5 plus many more at Astoria it's recorded for CD, VHS & LP
21: 2004 - R.I.P. Fantastic Records, internet killed the mom & pop record store. Bless Jeremy Sarachan, we must've spent thousands there
21: 1981 - Melody Maker: Pauline Black bites the bullet
20: 2016 - Vernal equinox, also Rainford Hugh Perry, bka Scratch the Upsetter turns 80
20: 1980 - Rolling Stone #313 Bob Hope, GHW Bush next to reviews of Specials, Madness and the Intensified! compilation (Island/ Mango)
19: 2004 - Jon Barra at 27, Terry Hall at 45, also Amy Ryan & Operatives CD release Buffalo
19: 1959 - my name is Terry and I'm going to enjoy myself first
17: 1995 - Toasters Rochester
13: 2003 - Thursday/ Slackers/ Milestones/ $5
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Judge Dread aged 52, onstage at The Penny Theatre in Canterbury Kent
12: 2016 - R.I.P. Roy 'Radics' Persaud, UK toaster best known for his work with NJ's Rudie Crew, also Bigger Thomas
12: 2009 - Aggrolites + Flogging Molly Green 17 tour stops Water St Rochester...second night added
11: 2009 - Aggrolites + Flogging Molly Green 17 tour stops Water St Rochester
11: 1998 - OUR NEW PAGE IS UP NOW!! (And coming together nicely) Direct yourself to moonska.com
10: 2016 - AMFS presents free screening of About the Young Idea : The Story of the Jam 500 University Ave, 6:45pm
10: 2006 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad's Slow Down CD release at Tilt
8: 2016 - R.I.P. What Would Sir George Martin Do?
7: 1995 - Toasters Lancaster
6: 2016 - Just Say No? R.I.P. Nancy Reagan, age 94 – check out the Ranking Roger & Blue Riddim Band collaboration!
4: 2016 - Water Street Music Hall denied entertainment license, some shows moved to Armory
3: 2011 - R.I.P. Steve Cardboard Eaton
3: 1991 - Ice Storm in Monroe County paralyzes the region for a good week
2: 2016 - Scott Kelly returns to Earth after orbiting 340 daze – but Bowie is gone
Mar 2016 - Do The Dog Skazine #81 out
Mar 2006 - Ska in the World #18 out
February
28: 2004 - what label?
27: 2016 - not MMA: Nerds in Denial + Some Ska Band at California Brew Haus 8:30pm $6
27: 1980 - Muziekkrant OOR #4 (Dutch paper) features their 2Tone spectacular
26: 2016 - Trojan's Monkey Business (boss '69 skinhead compilation from 1980) has again been expanded to 2 discs!
26: 1994 - Mike Boehm reviews Sublime Robbin' the Hood in L.A. Times's weekend calendar
23: 2007 - Skatalites/ King Django/ Bluebeats/ Westbound Train/ +6 more at Knitting Factory Brooklyn NY 6pm, it's recorded
22: 2016 - full snow moon 1:20 PM EST, R.I.P. W. Rey Derschowitz, aged 18.75
19: 2016 - Dave Wakeling at 60!
18: 2016 - The Toasters (+ Pomps) rock the Casbah in San Diego CA
16: 1953 - John Bradbury born
15: 1990 - Adam Birch plays horn on Unicorn PHZA-50, Laurel Aitken Ringo The Gringo, which is out today
15: 1981 - Dance Craze film finally out in theatres
14: 2016 - a fourth English Beat record?
14: 2016 - Bim Skala Bim, w/ Plate O' Shrimp and Pressure Cooker (two sets one last time at Johnny D's Uptown) in Somerville MA 10pm, $20
14: 1991 - Studio One archives: 1st issue of Ska Bonanza on Heartbeat compact disc! Each sold separately as Go Ska Go + Streets of Ska
13: 2000 - Maude Flanders killed by flying t-shirt "I'm really sorry to hear that. We just lost our drummer to a Pentecostal ska band."
12: 2016 - 5head Dino BBQ, Rochester 10pm
11: 2016 - R.I.P. André Schlesinger (NYC)
11: 2016 - H.R. is 60
9: 1964 - Beatles to USA television; some say the 2nd half of the 20th century starts here
8: 1990 - Included in the album is a free A2-sized poster of the ska lampoon zombie! (Toasters live Frankenska LP) today on Unicorn Records
8: 1973 - Perry Henzell's film The Harder They Come premieres in New York City
7: 2003 - English Beat In Concert at the Royal Festival Hall recorded for DVD
7: 1980 - Madness strikes America: Britons revive ska/ seen in RS310
6: 1989 - R.I.P. King Tubby, aged 48
6: 1945 - Bob Marley born
5: 1988 - Desmond Dekker live at Hawkins (Dublin, Ireland) – doors 8:30pm
3: 2016 - Frantic Frank reviews the new Slackers crowdfund in this week's City Newspaper
2: 1980 - Symarip's 1969 classic Skinhead Moonstomp 45 reissued in 1C picture sleeve
Feb 2015 - Street Sounds #10
January 2016
29: 2007 - Paul Weller begins a three-night Hit Parade at Irving Plaza NYC
28: 2006 - Toasters, Go Jimmy Go at Alfred University Powell CC Knight Club
28: 1986 - Shuttle disaster
27: 2016 - Toasters (return to Mohawk Place) also with Abruptors, Barksdales. $12adv/$14 dos, 8pm
27: 1998 - MR-122 The Authentic Ska Sound of Tommy McCook out on Moon Ska NYC
27: 1996 - Yolk, Milestones 50 East Ave
25: 2001 - Dave Wakeling at Odyssey Nightclub Ithaca
25: 1980 - The Specials at Hurrah NYC
23: 2016 - full wolf moon, 8:46 PM EST
19: 1985 - Win Echo videos?! Jerry Dammers Melody Maker
18: 1980 - E. Costello at the Clarendon Ballroom in Hammersmith. 13,000 copies of TT-7 were pressed then blocked from sale
16: 2016 - Go Jimmy Go "A Hui Hou" 20th anniv & farewell show 8pm, also Majestics + Noble Vibes return to Lovin' Cup Park Point
14: 2000 - Nigel & Allstonians live UR Wilson Commons coffeehouse, it's recorded
14: 1994 - SKA deemed the next big thing by Billboard® magazine
14: 1989 - Steve Lamacq writes 2 big New Musical Express pages on Zoot skazine & late 80's London ska awakening
13: 2016 - Suggs at 55, also Rocksteady 7 in the NY Times crossword today!
12: 2016 - If you see Zack today, wish him a happy 46th!
10: 2016 - If you see Don today, wish him a happy 60th!
10: 2016 - R.I.P. David Bowie, age 69. Check out his DERAM influence on Unicorn Records
9: 2006 - hpska.com uploaded to URL after only 5+ years in the making; I hope I see you ten years later
9: 1996 - HP interviews DF Macallister at NYS Route 18 & 104 diner
8: 2016 - Tom Beedham writes on Stomp Records's past 20 years
8: 2005 - Live at Club Ska supporting the "Return of Laurel Aitken" with The Riffs at Rayners Hotel
4: 2016 - Harry Sword retraces the culture of volume in the UK


December
31: 2015 - Rancid, Bosstones, more NYE at Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles CA
31: 2015 - some ska band "New Year's at 9" at Thirsty Turtle in Victor NY, 7-9:30pm
31: 2015 - NYSJE live NYE in Zürich CH
31: 1987 - New Years Eve w/ The Trojans at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
29: 2015 - Gaz Mayall at 58
29: 1982 - Jamaica issues RN Marley postage stamp
29: 1979 - The Specials (open for The Who) at Hammersmith Odeon
29: 1979 - Look In #1, Jr TV Times No 1 weekly, features Star Trek, The Specials, more
28: 2015 - R.I.P. John 'Brad' Bradbury, suddenly age 62. JB was the drummer of many groups, and producer of Maroon Town's 1st LP
28: 1979 - Madness, Bad Manners, The V.I.P.s, Bodysnatchers at Lyceum Ballroom (London NW1), 7:30pm, £3
26: 2015 - Bosstones kick off annual throwdown (3 night stand) at HOB Boston
26: 2015 - R.I.P. Lemmy, a UK musical heavyweight killed by death age 70
26: 2005 - Huckleberry Twitch & Mike: Ska is the cure, w/ Flamingos +3 locals. Milestones 170 East Ave Rochester 5pm $7
25: 2015 - first full moon on Christmas since 1977
25: 2006 - R.I.P. James Brown, Godfather of Soul, aged 73
23: 2015 - Baked A La Ska Christmas Knees Up + DJ Martin the Mod in Manchester UK
23: 1986 - Trojans perform live for the 1st time
22: 1988 - Prince Buster & Trojans record Stack O Lee 12" single (12 GAZ 010) + President Botha at Pavilion Studios W10 UK
21: 1988 - Staccato Records Presents Christmas in Skaville at the Brixton Fridge (recorded for BBLP1 and Youtube)
20: 1989 - final Potato 5 gig? Town & Country II in Islington London
20: 1984 - Desmond Dekker at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
19: 2015 - Slackers, Pietasters, Sammy K, The Snails at annual holiday party Irving Plaza NYC
19: 2004 - If he clears one final medical hurdle, Army 1st Lt. William Reynolds III will be coming home for the holidays
18: 2015 - what the hell is Star Wars®?
17: 2000 - obituary of Moon Ska NYC posted online
17: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim at East L.A. in Syracuse NY 18+
16: 1990 - R.I.P. Donat Roy 'Jackie' Mittoo, aged 42
16: 1773 - Boston Tea Party
14: 2010 - Dryden Theatre screening of the Clash's 1980 RUDE BOY 8pm
14: 1943 - Robert 'Dandy' Livingstone Thompson born
13: 2015 - Bad Manners, Max Splodge, The Pukes live in London
13: 2010 - double JEOPARDY #6041 triple stumper mentions the Specials and 2Tone for $2000
13: 1998 - Slackers in Ithaca NY
12: 2015 - Solomon was wise... Intensified '68 radio Episode 3 WAYO FM Rochester
12: 2015 - Frank Sinatra born 100 years ago today; consult the Skanatra CD for more info
11: 1995 - Five show, Let it snow, Ho Ho Hometown Throwdown (2nd Annual) at the Middle East
10: 1990 - Skankin' 'Round The World #5 the final international installment from Unicorn label
5: 2015 - Pressure Cooker at The Milky Way in Jamaica Plain, Boston 9pm
5: 2015 - Auckland Ska Festival, NZ 1:30p-3:00a
5: 1996 - Scofflaws + Too Hectic haunt Ithaca
3: 2015 - R.I.P. Gladstone Anderson, aged 81/ but most news is an unattended candle Scratch accidentally burns down his studio in Switzerland
3: 1995 - Bosstones at UR Palestra in Rochester NY, it's recorded
2: 1979 - Specials live Lyceum in London, it's recorded
Dec 2015 - Do The Dog Skazine #80
Dec 2011 - Record Collector #395 interview with John Sims re: 2Tone posters
November
27: 2005 - mailorder ska explosion
26: 2015 - and be thankful... Eric Barnet FAT TURKEY on Pama Supreme
25: 2015 - full moon, also celebrate a half-century of Lint
25: 1997 - NYC SKA MOB tour Mercury Theatre Buffalo
24: 1995 - Turkey Jam w/ Ground's Keeper Willy, Boutros Boutros, Initial Doubt, Al Beaman Band, + Lethargy. Club Zei 2pm
22: 2015 - Toasters fb approaches 80k
20: 2015 - Noble Vibes Temple Bar 109 East Ave 10pm free
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso aged 67, also Slackers The Question out on Hellcat
20: 1996 - Nintendo 64 & Deston Berry
19: 1971 - 'Lord Sluggo' Ruggiero born
18: 1976 - Dave McWane born
17: 2015 - Slackers, Abruptors, Reggie Childs Mohawk Place Buffalo $12/14
16: 2001 - Toasters Rochester, the release of HP7
16: 1989 - Laurel Aitken Sally Brown maxi 12" out on Unicorn PHZA-54 today; art by Steve Friel
15: 2015 - Mustard Plug, Seven Thirty Seven, On the Cinder Mohawk Place Buffalo $10/12
13: 2015 - Québec SkaFest 2015 weekender
10: 2001 - Ken Kesey dies, also HP7 completed
9: 2015 - Agent Jay-produced reggae dub punk ska Detroit. All songs written by J. Navarro and E. Abbey copyright 2015 ASCAP
9: 2015 - Vic Ruggiero, Roarshark, Harsh Mellows at ButaPub in South Wedge basement (Rochester) $5, not Bug Jar
9: 1985 - RECORD MIRROR: Madness, Art Of Noise, June Brides, Flesh For Lulu
8: 1986 - Gaz's Rockin' Blues Winter Warmer! Potato 5, Forest Hillbillies, Deltones, Matoids +1, at Town & Country Islington UK
5: 2015 - Stephen Shafer, your Duff Guide to Ska, turns 49 today
Nov 2015 - Mojo #264 w/ Beatles, Rico obit, Georgie Fame, Dischord Records, Bodysnatchers, more
Nov 2006 - Big Wheel #15 (Los Angeles) The Aggrolites, Bouncing Souls, Damned, Jello
Nov 1997 - Tattoo Magazine #99 goes backstage with Voodoo Glow Skulls!
Nov 1996 - the release of HP3
Nov 1994 - Oz-Ska-Lia #1 from Ivan Downey and Vic Elsternwick, down undah
Nov 1979 - 2Tone Tour package brings itself to venues all over the United Kingdom this month!
October
31: 2015 - Halloween on a saturday night
31: 2006 - Melbourne ska legends Strange Tenants, celebrate their 25th anniversary with a new 70 track, 4-CD boxed set, Rude Celebration
31: 1998 - Limited edition/ 1400 pieces black & orange Halloween 45 from Less Than Jake only at Cabaret Metro Chicago IL tonight
30: 2015 - Rhoda Dakar sings The Bodysnatchers CD out
29: 1991 - Bad Manners at S.O.B.'s Varick Street NYC
28: 2015 - UB40 + Radio Riddler at Webster Hall NYC to a sold out crowd
27: 2015 - the final supermoon of the year 12:05 UTC
27: 2005 - TROJAN BOX Mod Reggae Volume 2 seen on Newbury Street
27: 1979 - MELODY MAKER CHEAP TRICK THIN LIZZY SPECIALS 2-TONE TALKING HEADS
27: 1979 - LOOK MA SPECIALS ODEON ROOFTOP SOUNDS MAGAZINE UK
21: 2015 - ooh la la Marty McFly buys Gray's Sports Almanac
21: 2014 - Toasters' SHOCKER! hot sauce rolling out in Raleigh NC tonight
21: 1993 - Bosstones fans destroy dancefloor at Horizontal Boogie Bar Rochester NY USA
20: 2004 -
Dub Is a Weapon w/ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Rochester
20: 1995 - Slackers/ Insteps/ Bluebeats at the Cooler (NYC)
20: 1979 - MELODY MAKER GARY NUMAN QUEEN WHO SPECIALS
17: 2015 - third annual Cassette Store Day?!
15: 2005 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat returns to Rochester
13: 1993 - The Busters (Germany) with Mobtown at the Roxy in Hollywood CA
13: 1979 - Selecter Mo-Dettes, The Beat 7:30pm at Electric Ballroom Camden London UK
12: 1979 - Madness, Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Manners 7:30pm at Electric Ballroom Camden London UK
2: 2013 - VGS, Toasters +2 Waiting Room Buffalo
2: 1991 - Skatalites at S.O.B.'s Varick Street NYC
Otono '99 - Liquidator #1 with Rico, on Madrid newsprint
September
30: 2005 - Mrs. Skannotto, The Ops (fka Amy Ryan & The Operatives), LeVar Burtones $5 16+ at ELIXIR Rochester
28: 2015 - a rare Total Lunar Eclipse of a Super Full Moon will be visible from most of North America, South America, Europe
28: 2015 - The Selecter, on my NPR (again)
28: 1995 - Fugazi Rochester
27: 2013 - thanks to The Clash.
27: 1979 - Errol Dunkley performs O.K. Fred on Top of the Pops, BBC TV
26: 1999 - Pietasters live at Styleen's Rhythm Palace, Armory Square (Syracuse NY) it's recorded
23: 2005 - Madness perform the Dangermen Sessions live at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon USA
23: 2003 - Badfish Rochester
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim Rochester
22: 2015 - Slackers (w/ Lady Hatchet on axe) in Regensberg Germany, it's recorded
21: 2015 - Happy Aaron B Pryor Day!
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian CE Oster, age 30; exactly one decade since his beloved Pilfers Chawalaleng out
21: 1979 - The Clash's iconic London Calling cover photograph taken (at New York Palladium)
19: 2015 - Pilfers + Mrs. Skannotto $15/ 8pm/ 18+/ Haunt Ithaca NY
18: 2015 - C Benoit talks to Dave Wakeling for Reggae Steady Ska, also Rancid at Terminal 5 NYC 7:30 PM
16: 2015 - Remembering Doc Night in the Washington City Paper
16: 2013 - Advance ticket purchase includes a Deluxe Edition CD of Elvis Costello + The Roots new collaborative album WISE UP GHOST
16: 2000 - Toots /Stone Love Movement WSMH Rochester
15: 1995 - stroboscopic sound? Ska in Hi-Fi (Scofflaws) finally out on MR052
14: 2014 - SKA914
14: 1975 - Richard Storms begins The Record Archive
13: 2008 - Derrick Morgan at The 100 Club London, it's recorded
12: 2015 - celebrate 20 years with Ska Brewing
11: 2015 - R.I.P. Doc Night (John Andre Williams) age 52, from Washington D.C., Scream and most recently The Scotch Bonnets
10: 2015 - R.I.P. Adrian Frutiger, aged 87
9: 1995 - craft beer in Colorado
8: 2003 - Slackers brand-new Close My Eyes out today
8: 1995 - Tin spam, caviar? Stubborn Allstars's Open Season out today
7: 1989 - stuttgart.de No Sports KING SKA [PHZA-49] L.P. out today; some of the finest German ska ever made!
6: 1997 - Planet Smashers, Creepers, Slush Fund, Professionals Military Road Kenmore NY
6: 1979 - Madness The Prince on Top of The Pops, BBC TV
6: 1958 - Big Macs beware: Doug Trendle born, Hackney London UK
5: 2015 - Mrs. Skannotto to play Less Than Jake's Wake & Bake Festival in Gainesville FL, presented by Enemy Ink
4: 2015 - R.I.P. Mr. Rico on trombone, age 80
4: 1995 - AuctionWeb founded in California by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar
3: 1982 - English Beat at US Festival
2: 1989 - Record Mirror contains interviews with, articles, photos on Adeva, Silencers, 80s UK Ska, Sigourney Weaver (honestly!)
1: 2015 - Google's introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality
Sep 2015 - Do The Dog #79 - Melbourne Ska Orchestra in North America
Sep 1997 - Ska'd For Life #9 - John Redden also hosted a student radio show at villanova.edu
Sep 1993 - Blue Ryder #31 - OLEAN NY
Sep 1976 - Rico's Man From Wareika debut was recorded at both Joe Gibbs and Randy's Studios, Kingston JA
August
30: 2015 - Toasters in Tokyo JP
30: 1979 - The Specials Gangsters on Top of The Pops
29: 2015 - perigee moon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon
29: 2015 - Soulside Productions presents Trojan Lounge's 8 year anniversary celebration!
29: 2000 - Bim Skala Bim Krinkle out today
23: 1994 - the Toasters iconic Dub 56 released
21: 2015 - 5Head release party Candy Supper CD at Dinosaur BBQ 9:30pm EST
20: 1995 - Sublime with Brad warped tour in North Tonawanda NY, it's recorded
18: 1995 - meet Verbal Kint & the usual suspects
16: 2003 - the release of HP8
16: 1998 - Laurel Aitken at Wetlands
16: 1977 - the king is dead
15: 1995 - Heartbeat Records' posthumous Jackie Mittoo 2CD career retropective compilation out, liners by Keyo
15: 1965 - Beatles Shea Stadium
13: 2015 - Noble Vibes at the final Party in The Park, along with Driftwood and Giant Panda! 5:30 PM
13: 1980 - The Selecter at Nottingham's Theatre Royale, it's recorded
12: 2005 - Camille Dodero hunts graffiti in Boston Phoenix
12: 1999 - For sale, $1250: 1979 P200 in stock blue, some minor scratches. No bodywork needed c. 2,400 miles Contact Melissa
11: 1987 - Professor E. Rubik issued a US patent 4,685,680 on the mechanism of Rubik's Magic.
10: 2000 - THURSDAY NIGHT STOMP: Rocksteady 7 Blackouts Motives at Water Street 7PM
10: 1993 - cool beginnings 1981-83 untouchables Matrix / Runout: AMERICAN HELIX *CD03725* STELLAR 234 DTI#118244-D3-2308-2
8: 2015 - Toasters + English Beat 7-11pm The Spirit of the Eighties concert $20 Academy Park 851 Center St, Lewiston NY 14092
8: 1981 - NME's Paul du Noyer: SPECIALS – The End of an Era?
6: 2015 - Los Straitjackets Rochester (Winton Place, 9pm $25)
6: 2012 - 50 years of Jamaican independence
5: 1994 - Skatalites WETLANDS NYC USA 80 min. it's recorded
4: 2015 - TP Moughan at 37, also Sublime with Rome at CMAC, Canandiagua
4: 1995 - TP Moughan at 17, also Miggedys Powderhorn Lodge, Powder Mills Park
2: 2015 - El Buckito at 60
Aug 2015 - Street Sounds #12 The Libertines, psychobilly, fanzines, more
Aug 2015 - Record Collector 443/ Monkees R. Crumb Motown also mentions HPSKA.com
Aug 2010 - Record Collector 378/ Clapton Slade Ronson 2 Tone (by John Reed) Devo Jett Gorillaz
Aug 1996 - Moon Skazette details HBFD, California Skaquake 2, Noah #12, The Miggedys
Aug 1995 - DILL #5 is Less Than Jake Pezcore
Aug 1995 - Darrell Rubio's Stiff Dog Records compilation is Generic Ska-Ca
Aug 1991 - RUDE #12 w/ Maroon Town, Cosmics, 100 Men, more
July
31: 2015 - 6:45 am EST blue moon
29: 1995 - Grounds Keeper Willy Java Cow's Coffee in Canandaigua NY
28: 1998 - warped tour Specials Rancid Reverend Horton Heat Bad Religion Aquabats + La Salle Park Buffalo
28: 1991 - Studio One's 35th Anniversary Concert at Kingston's National Arena (50 acts) cosponsored by Heartbeat Records
27: 2002 - Bim Oswego
27: 1987 - Desmond Dekker Laurel Aitken + at Astoria
26: 1996 - warped tour Dance Hall Crashers, Fishbone, Goldfinger + La Salle Park Buffalo
26: 1994 - Roland Alphonso & Tommy McCook talk in Holland 60 min
26: 1993 - Skatalites at The Beachcomber Wellfleet MA 90 min
26: 1986 - Skatalites with Alton Ellis at Tilden Ballroom Queens NY 90 min
25: 2015 - Virginia Ska Fest at Blue & Gray Brewery Fredericksburg VA 5pm
25: 1992 - Skatalites (two Lloyds, Roland & Tommy), interview on KPFA-FM Berkeley CA
24: 2015 - Virginia Ska Fest at Blue & Gray Brewery Fredericksburg VA 5pm
23: 2011 - R.I.P. Amy Jade Winehouse, aged 27
23: 1998 - invest in 12" longarm reach booklet stapler, $25.49 at 18:36
21: 1997 - warped tour Bosstones, LTJ, Hepcat, Professionals + La Salle Park Buffalo
20: 2003 - obey via Buffalo NY
20: 1996 - we chose to go to the Moon store [150 E. 2nd St] for Porkers' Grunt, then to Toasters 7 Willow Street in Port Chester NY
20: 1995 - Skatalites at El Mocambo Toronto ON, 90 min it's recorded
20: 1969 - we choose to go to the MOON
19: 2015 - National Ice Cream Day; play The Loafers' 1988 track Ice Cream for more detail
19: 1995 - As if! Paul Rudd in Clueless (Amy Heckerling directs the Bosstones)
18: 2006 - Trojan Motor City Reggae 3CD boxset out
17: 2015 - As if! Paul Rudd in Ant-Man
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Aitken, aged 78
16: 1995 - Miggedys w/ Skavoovie at Water St Music Hall - Spring Heeled Jack are no shows in Area Code 716
15: 2013 - Remember that night? It seems so clear, now he's back and I'm glad he's here [for $1000]
15: 2010 - Jimmy Cliff at the 6th week of 2010 Party in the Parkinglot concert series at Riverside Festival site downtown, it's recorded
14: 2015 - Stiff Little Fingers at Town Ballroom, 681 Main, Buffalo NY 14203
14: 1995 - Bim, Selecter, House Of Rhythm concert-freebie Marquee (London); Fri 14/7/95 Dojo – DO SKA 1 Vinyl 7" Limited Edition Promo
13: 2004 - There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen who comes into my house every night...
12: 2012 - Jimmy Cliff Rebirth out today
11: 2015 - Melbourne Ska Orchestra in Toronto, also THE MAJESTICS w/Noble Vibes @ Lovin' Cup Bistro, 9pm
11: 1999 - Laurel Aitken, Allstonians, Porkers at Wetlands New York, NY it's recorded
11: 1981 - this week's NME: Black Uhuru The Specials Psychedelic Furs The 4 Skins David Bowie Au Pairs
10: 2015 - AMY (the movie) to be released worldwide
9: 2015 - Bosstones, Streetdogs 6pm-10:30pm Canalside 44 Prime Street 14203 Buffalo NY
7: 1998 - New York Ska Jazz Ensemble Get This! MR132 release date
7: 1984 - Skatalites with Prince Buster, Crystal Palace London soundboard
2: 2015 - Noble Vibes at Pelican's Nest
1: 2015 - Victoria BC Ska Fest #16 begins
1: 2015 - full buck moon, 10:20pm EST
1: 1989 - Skatalites with Winston Grennan, Trattoria Saratoga NY USA 35 Min
July 2015 - Vive Le Rock #27 The Who at 50/ Mods Mayday!/ Chords/ Lambrettas/ Secret Affair
Summer 1998 - Craig Ho's Doh! 'zine #3
Summer 1996 - Ian Hodkinson's Ska Goes North #6
Summer 1995 - Denver Skabeat #4
June
30: 2015 - Frightnrs release single on DapTone
28: 2002 - Toasters Bowery Collection Live at CBGB L.E.S. it's recorded
27: 2015 - Paul Weller meets CBS TV's Anthony Mason!
27: 2015 - Rosslau Skafest 2015, Dessau-Rosslau Germany
26: 2015 - Rosslau Skafest 2015, Dessau-Rosslau Germany
24: 2015 - 3HB Hump Day Ska Fest with Mrs. Skannotto + 5Head $5 8pm Flour City Station, 170 East Ave
22: 1995 - Dr. Madd Vibe born when Angelo meets theremin
21: 2015 - Catch 22, Dinkus 9 (reunion show), Mrs. Skannotto, Seven Thirty Seven at Waiting Room Buffalo $20 16+ 6pm
21: 1995 - Ska in the Poconos? Sherman Street Skafest includes Mustard Plug, Mephiskapheles, Skablazers
21: 1995 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Grand Prix released on Epic Records Japan
21: 1991 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra World Famous released on Epic Records Japan
20: 2015 - Reel Big Fish in Rochester NY
20: 2015 - Rude Boy George in West Orange NJ
20: 1995 - Rick Omonte (Spring Heeled Jack) returns our S.A.S.E. with news they plan a visit Rochester mid-July
19: 2015 - Some Ska Band in Rush NY at the Public Library Gazebo 6:30-8pm EST
17: 2015 - VooDoo Glowskulls, Slow Children, Seven Thirty Seven, Cinder at Mohawk Place/ 7pm Buffalo, NY
16: 1999 - Toasters, live in Rochester 21+ Bug Jar/ the release of HP6
16: 1986 - Unicorn Records begins in London UK
15: 2015 - what is Ska for $600 (Jeopardy #7091 airs), also a brand new box fresh Selecter record, Subculture out today
15: 1995 - The Death of American Skathic compilation of past midwest ska bands exhumed by DJ Chuck Wren
14: 2003 - Bosstones, Pietasters, VGS, Catch 22 at High Falls Festival site/ tix courtesy Pete Spaker WBER
14: 1969 - Unusual Rudy? Cash Box Magazine has Tom Jones, Cher, Desmond Dekker, Slim Harpo
12: 1997 - Bosstones by Eric Gladstone in Rolling Stone #762
12: 1995 - Juuso P. Kummala (Finland) sent his skinzine Tribute to the Cult #3 via post to DOJO Records UK
12: 1989 - Coolie Ranx w/ Toasters record Frankenska LP (shares bill with Potato 5 Five Alive at Town and Country II, Islington)
12: 1981 - Specials release Ghost Town
11: 2015 - R.I.P. Ornette Coleman, aged 85
10: 2011 - Toasters +4, live in Rochester Dubland Underground
7: 1991 - Bosstones live at The Paradise (Boston, MA)
6: 1989 - Deltones' Make Me Smile 12" out on Unicorn
6: 1988 - Toasters article by Cathy Hainer in New York Magazine
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles Rochester/ the release of HP4
4: 2015 - R.I.P Hermann Zapf, aged 96 (the noted type designer gave the commencement address at R.I.T. in '93)
4: 2015 - Mento Buru will be performing for the McFarland High School graduation this year
4: 2010 - Steakouts live debut at Montage Music Hall Rochester NY
4: 1985 - Joe Jackson/ The Toasters mentioned on pg 16 of Good Times (NYC) by Betty Hughes
3: 1995 - Mudsharks + Skavengers 2 sets at Bluebird Theater in Denver, CO
2: 2015 - full moon 12:19PM EST, also Richie A Jung - bka Dr. Ring Ding arrives at 45
June 2015 - The Meow Meows by James Parsons on Do The Dog Skazine #78
June 2006 - CTSKA: Upbeat Skazine #2
June 2005 - a young Derrick Morgan by Jordan Hillyard on Do The Dog Skazine #37
June 2001 - Sanctuary Group Ltd. paid £10.3 million for Trojan Records UK
June 1995 - Pittsford Ska: Miggedys by Ralph Tetta
June 1991 - Rude #11 (LKA Do The Dog Skazine)
June 1985 - Toasters' Recriminations review in the East Village Eye
June 1985 - Untouchables SEEZ 57 out
May
31: 2015 - Justin L. and Alex B. Skannotto in WBZA 98.9 FM studios Sunday Night Shakedown #468 with Frank DeBlase, 8-11pm EST
31: 2005 - The Dead 60s is the eponymous debut album by British rock band (USA art is yellow, trackslist different)
29: 2014 - Some Ska Band at Stickylips BBQ II on NYS RT 252
29: 1995 - Moonstomp Tour (Toasters, LGB, Mustard Plug +1) at Fox Theatre Boulder CO
29: 1980 - SMASH HITS vol 2 no 11 THE SPECIALS 2 TONE SKA OMD
28: 1995 - Oi Skampilation #1 at The Grand NYC: SHJ, Slackers, Inspecter 7, Skavoovie & Eps, Insteps, Allstonians, Mephiskapheles
27: 2014 - Died: Massimo Vignelli
26: 2006 - Born: Kingston Rossdale
25: 1996 - Died: Brad Nowell
25: 1965 - Clay vs. Liston II moved from Boston up to Lewiston Maine (and record low attendance)
25: 1958 - Born: Paul Weller
24: 2006 - Died: Desmond Dekker
24: 1938 - Born: Prince Buster
22: 1955 - Born: Jerry Dammers
21: 1995 - King for a Day...Fool for a Lifetime from Lakeshore Records
20: 1995 - VooDoo Glowskulls in Denver CO
20: 1966 - Born: Joe Scholes
19: 1979 - Rude Boys Don't Argue? The Specials's first Melody Maker cover story
18: 1979 - The Jam "Jam Pact Spring Tour" in Glasgow, Scotland it's recorded
17: 1978 - Born: Double Z
16: 1996 - bulletin from Fly PR announces release of Toasters' upcoming disc, Hard Band For Dead
16: 1981 - Look-In #21 cover say Madness make a Film!
15: 2015 - Bad Manners, Dale and the Zdubs at Knitting Factory Brooklyn NY 7:30pm $20/25 << TOUR CANCELLED DUE TO IMMIGRATION ISSUES >>
15: 2015 - Thunder Body at Lilac Fest free 5:30pm
15: 2008 - bicycle commuting in Greater Boston WGBH 2 features Eric Mearns, David Watson of Mass Bike, Mayor Tom Menino. Original air date!
15: 1995 - Dr. Ring Ding & the Senior Allstars' GRO-CD 004 Dandimite! (later licensed to Moon Ska NYC in USA 4/97)
14: 2015 - Noble Vibes at Lilac Fest free 4pm
14: 1998 - Died: Francis Albert
13: 2013 - English Beat at Lilac Festival free 7pm/ it's 40º when we get there half-hour late!
12: 1995 - Goldmine Magazine #386 has a Jo-Ann Greene article on 2Tone label
11: 2015 - Jacob WakeUp loves this excellent 2Tone documentary narrated by Lint
11: 1981 - Died: Bob Marley
10: 2015 - You just can't trust!
10: 1997 - Toasters Honolulu
9: 2004 - botched Vespa heist at the Port of Newark discussed on HBO's hit Sopranos
8: 1998 - Goldmine Magazine #464 has Sleater/Kinney, Moon Ska Records' Bucket, Elvis Costello!
7: 2015 - Died: Lei Jun, aged 40
7: 1995 - sunday matinee An Informal Gathering CD release party; Pittsford map artwork via CGI then in tobey village office park 14534
6: 2015 - Hardcore Logo's Pete Cooper at 49! also Fishbone +2, $20 8pm Syracuse NY
6: 2013 - Release Date Laurel Aitken: Skinhead Ska Label: Pressplay Format: CD UPC: 5013929900431
5: 2015 - Roddy Radiation turns 60 in STL, MO
5: 2005 - Alkaline Trio, Mike 'BruceLee' Park and Amanda 'Spike' Stepto (DeGrassi HS) meet at Water Street in Rochester
5: 1998 - Died: Tommy McCook
5: 1996 - The Porkers perform Chemical Imbalance + Schooners of the Black live on FBi 94.5 FM (Sydney) it's recorded by Mugga McAllister
5: 1995 - Roddy Radiation turns 40, also Allstonians Ritskeller tacobar before Bosstones/ Miggedys R.I.T. Ritter Arena
4: 2015 - may the fonts be with you
4: 2004 - Died: Sir Coxone
4: 2003 - bank holiday weekend! Brighton Ska Festival: Laurel Aitken, Hotknives, Too Hot, Smoke Like a Fish, Kingsize
3: 2015 - full moon, 11:42 PM EST, also DJ Rob La Rock (Hoodlum Empire/ Oakland CA) has been missing for 20 years
3: 1998 - Bosstones return to Seymour Union Ballroom SUNY Brockport but we don't
3: 1969 - Fabulous 208 popweekly Peter Sarstedt, Desmond Dekker, Barry Gibb
2: 2015 - DW English Beat, Allstonians at Johnny D's Uptown, 17 Holland Street, Somerville MA 02144, 21+, $35
2: 2015 - One Mint Julep? 141st Kentucky Derby; check out Judge Dread's 1981 The Dread Stakes for more detail
2: 1979 - on the eve of the election, Specials' Live at the Moonlight Club CCD5011 recorded, 6 mos before introductory LP release
1: 2004 - find Brown Album factory new $5
May 2015 - Street Sounds #11 has Kevin Rowland, Rev HHeat, Dropkick Murphys & loads more
May 2015 - Mojo #258 has Brian Wilson, Jerry Dammers, Blur, more
May 2014 - Mojo #246 has Debbie Blondie, Terry Hall, Damon Albarn, more
May 2000 - 28th Street Magazine V15, #5 (Los Angeles) Heather Graham/ Kevin Spacey/ Mighty Bosstones
May 2000 - CMJ New Music #81 Dicky Barrett cover
May 1969 - Beat Instrumental #73 Savoy Brown, Taj Mahal, Desmond Dekker etc
April
30: 2015 - R.I.P. Ben E. King, aged 76
28: 2015 - Roddy Radiation/ The Scotch Bonnets/ Ronald Raygun/ Ruben Lipkind's Doc Marten SoundSystem, at Mohawk Place Buffalo NY
28: 1999 - first version of this site up
28: 1985 - The Beat Goes Public in Washington D.C.
26: 1315 - the first Parliament of Scotland was held in Ayr
25: 2015 - Roddy Radiation/ The Scotch Bonnets/ Rude Boy George and more at Fontana's NYC 8pm 21+
25: 2015 - English Beat return to Iron Works Buffalo, NY 8pm $25
25: 1997 - The Skatalites return 114 W. Green Haunt Ithaca/ 9:30pm $12 18+ w ID/ guess what they tour in a 1981 Itasca Suncruiser RV
25: 1982 - "DANCE CRAZE" by Janet Maslin NYT
24: 2004 - get Studio One/ Rude Boy Stylee shirts from Top Notch Mono!
24: 1980 - Mirror in the Bathroom b/w Jackpot 45 out
23: 2005 - 0:19 Elephants? Me at the zoo uploaded 8:27pm
23: 2004 - meet Jah Crunchy
23: 1979 - R.I.P. Blair Peach, aged 33
21: 2015 - Primus (and their Chocolate Factory) return to Landmark Theatre Syracuse NY 8pm 
22: 2005 - Desmond Dekker sold out Chicago
21: 2005 - Desmond Dekker sold out San Francisco
21: 2004 - don't be late Amy Ryan & The Operatives blurb spotted in The New Times (Syracuse free weekly)
19: 1969 - Melody Maker has E CLAPTON, D ELLINGTON, D DEKKER
18: 2015 - Record Store Day SKA 2015
17: 1995 - Patrick Smith [Stargreen] postmark Cambridge MA!
15: 2002 - Bad Manners w/ Inciters, Slaves at DNA Lounge SF CA, it's recorded
15: 1981 - "From British racial strife, Rock" by Robert Palmer NYT
14: 2015 - Hooligans United, a 2CD or 3xLP tribute to Rancid out
14: 1980 - Bodysnatchers' 4 song BBC John Peel Session airs
14: 1965 - SHINDIG Season 1, Episode 31 guests: Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Sedaka, Millie Small, April and Nino. ABC TV 8:30-9:30p EST
11: 1998 - Kerrang #694 has MM Bosstones/ King Prawn
10: 1980 - SKA 'N' B released on Magnet MAGL 5033 this week
8: 2005 - It's a HIJACK
8: 1997 - Mustard Plug #424
7: 2005 - Rolling Stone flashback 1966: Pete Townshend the mod at a trendy King's Road tailor
6: 2007 - Nigel Ball owes it to Walt Jabsco
5: 2015 - Easter Sunday
5: 1994 - riddles are abound tonight
5: 1980 - first R.E.M. gig
4: 2015 - blood moon shortest total lunar eclipse (7:58 am EDT) + Doc Awkward at 60!
4: 2013 - Slackers Waiting Room
3: 2015 - R.I.P. Evil Eye (Sonic Insanity jockey WRUR FM, 1989-2004)
2: 2015 - London International Ska Festival 2015 Edition begins, runs all Easter Weekend
1: 2015 - marcoonthebass.blogspot.com turns 7 today
Apr 2015 - Record Collector #439 Joe Strummer cover
Apr 2005 - Ska In The World #14 by Nobuhiro & Akira
Apr 2004 - Version City #1 by Django & Porkchop
Apr 1998 - Carry Go Bring Come #7 by Chelsea White & Ike Ellis
Apr 1998 - Skatastrophe #7 by Jamie Bogner & Lynn Gadson
Apr 1991 - Record Mirror ceased when United Newspapers closed/ sold their consumer mags to concentrate on newspapers
Apr 1984 - The Reggae & African Beat has The King of Rock Steady Soul: Alton Ellis
Apr 1982 - The Face #24 by Nick Logan & Neville Brody
Apr 1981 - Nutty Boys #2 Madness comic book returns
Apr 1980 - The Specials appear in USA magazines Creem, Relix, Time
March
31: 1996 - Rancid, RFTC, Weston at WSMH
29: 1994 - Rico and his band "You Must Be Crazy" the official live album recorded at FZW Dortmund, Germany for Grover Records' GRO-002
29: 1980 - Selecter new 45 Missing Words b/w Carry Go Bring Come (live at Tiffany's) out on CHS TT10/ typo on silver press!
28: 2015 - cheap trick? Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra celebrate 25 years, at Budokan – also Noble Vibes at Abilene 10pm
28: 1982 - New Math new EP
27: 2015 - Zero Freitas redefines heavy vinyl
26: 2003 - Rocksteady 7 at Monty's Krown is walkable
26: 1978 - The (Coventry) Automatics make their London debut at the Marquee
25: 1998 - HP#5 out now
23: 1996 - Too Hectic Alfred University
24: 1997 - The Write Offs record/mix their Big Dawg 45 at Old Dairy Studios in York (Peter Bower Records Leeds)
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim HBB, w/ Koo Koo Boy - here we get Mash It Up Volume 3 (LKA Skaville USA Volume 7 in UK
) from merch table
23: 1989 - Ska Explosion VHS tape #4: Trojans Live at The Astoria
23: 1989 - Ska Explosion VHS tape #3: Loafers & Laurel Skankin' The Place Down recorded at Astoria [vinyl Staccato 12 RUDE 5]
21: 2015 - Garry Bushell, also The Toasters in Mexico City 7PM!
20: 2015 - Rainford Hugh Perry, bka Scratch the Upsetter is 79
20: 1997 - Rochester NY ska The Professionals' Watch Your Step (their 1st tape) initial 500 copies arrive from the pressing plant
19: 2004 - HP#8 to DSHillyard. Slackers, Amy Ryan + Operatives (their CD release show), openers The Glow at Nietzsche's Buffalo
19: 1996 - Concrete Press #18 Newcastle AUS weekly – "The Porkers get some pork on their Fork"
18: 1967 - Prince Buster blurb in Melody Maker
17: 2015 - Various 60s Ska from the Vaults of WIRL Records on Kingston Sounds Label Matrix KSCD 056CD Genre World
17: 1995 - R.I.P. Ronnie Kray, aged 61. also Toasters w/ BC Enterprize at Boogie Bar
17: 1979 - Sister Denise starts Reggae Sounds on WITR FM radio Noon-2pm today; this program will broadcast weekly for the next 36+ years
16: 2015 - music like dirt for your money's worth
16: 1993 - Bosstones 10-day jaunt thru the UK
15: 1994 - Skatalites on CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW NBC STUDIOS NYC 7 min 1ST GEN soundboard
15: 1980 - Melody Maker music newspaper Madness in NYC Bob Dylan The Jam Iggy Pop
13: 2015 - 5head +1 WSMH $5 adv/$10 dos
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Judge Dread, age 52
12: 1980 - Arena's Rude Boys Come Back airs on BBC TV
12: 1964 - Millie's smash record released, soon to be loved internationally!
11: 2009 - Rochester City Newspaper cover: Aggrolites
10: 2001 - Dropkick Murphys, Lars Friedriksen & the Bastards, +2 more 8pm $13 WSMH
9: 2015 - Coolie Ranx is 50?!
9: 1989 - Unicorn Records' PHZA-30 is [Joe Scholes'] The Braces debut vinyl Prime Cut
8: 1980 - Flight Punk, Gun Reggae: Beat NME 'Birmingham between the Lions'
7: 1997 - Hey. You wanna go to the Scofflaws in Ithica on March 28th? I'm 18 now, so das coo. dceb
6: 1989 - Loafers w/ Laurel Aitken at Pirahnas, Weston-super-Mare Somerset UK
5: 2015 - full moon, New York 1:05pm EST
5: 1997 - more MOONPACK!
4: 2015 - Rochester City Newspaper cover: who saw the writing on the wall?
4: 2000 - stay tuned or make a move make a move make a move
4: 1998 - go meet Fritz in response to his letter
4: 1995 - 15:29
3: 2003 - Rochester City Newspaper cover: this 'zine rules in HELL
2: 2014 - Re: Death In Paradise theme
2: 1979 - Jam Strange Town 45 out
Mar 1998 - One Step Beyond #4 by Niklas Bergstrand (Sweden)
Mar 1992 - Alternative Press #45 Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Thee Hypnotics, Buzzcocks
Mar 1987 - Chargesheet #9 by Steve Goodman (UK)
February
28: 2004 - what label?
27: 2015 - R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, age 83 – Mr. Spock was a teenage outcast
27: 2015 - Noble Vibes Temple Bar 10pm
27: 2013 - regret to report my Johnston Underground mug from P22 broke, chipped and a hairline fracture 17:02 EST
27: 2006 - Pietasters Milestones (1 of 2) by Twitch
27: 2004 - Fridays and limitations of the printed page? Rochester's D&C reveals its limited young hip nightlife paper – the insider
27: 1981 - Selecter's 2nd, Celebrate The Bullet released
26: 2015 - in celebration of Johnny Cash's birthday, locally get the UK version of Mash It Up '93 (features Mr. Cranky's Ring Of Fire)
25: 1982 - points for using Korinna font: Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
24: 2006 - Pietasters by Kimberly Greene
24: 2006 - Slackers, Operatives, Mechatama +2 at Club Infinity Williamsville 7pm. Artvoice blurb by Daniel B. Honigman
23: 2005 - Toasters, Westbound Train +1 Castaways Ithaca NY
23: 1989 - Loafers & Laurel Aitken, Hotknives, Skadows at Majestic Theatre in Reading
21: 1988 - Operation Ivy Sound System live on KALX radio 14 tracks CD
20: 2015 - R.I.P. Tod Wirschem, aged 44. He led the band Big Hair in the nineties and later toured Canada and France w/ Grimskunk
18: 1993 - RAM #204 (Australia) Toots Hibbert "King Reggae" cover, also Dead Kennedys, UB40
17: 2015 - Oneonta Ska Society FB page likes us!
17: 1998 - Mr. Review anthology One Way Ticket To Skaville available for USA by Moon Records
16: 1995 - Bosstones at Network (Buffalo)
15: 2015 - 20 years of Stomp Records
15: 2005 - Tuesday, 20:16:52 -0800, John Vaccaro has accepted your invitation to Gmail and has chosen
15: 1981 - Dance Craze out in UK theatres
15: 1980 - Elvis Costello Get Happy
14: 1980 - Go Feet begins with FEET1 – The Beat's Hands Off... She's Mine b/w Twist and Crawl
13: 2015 - 5head Dino BBQ, 10pm
12: 2015 - R.I.P. David Carr, aged 58
11: 2015 - a $2000 triple-stumper on Jeopardy #7003
11: 2005 - Doc Awk fondly remembers WRUR reggae shows, in newsprint
11: 1995 - Miggedys, Ansley Court HBB, 2X art by fat cat and his gang
11: 1980 - Madness/ Modettes at The Apollo, Glasgow Scotland
10: 2015 - Los Angeles reggae got sol: The Lions Soul Riot released on Stone Throw Records STH2346 today
8: 2015 - Brann Dailor won best dressed at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards
6: 2015 - Hon. Robert Nesta Marley, OM born 70 years ago today
6: 1993 - King Apparatus at Nietzsche's, Buffalo NY
5: 2005 - Ask yourself, what would Rog do? Jah Crunchy performs 'Sun is Shining' at the Marley 60th tribute show
5: 1993 - King Apparatus at Milestones, Rochester NY
4: 2015 - Too ra loo rye, aye! and this year's LISF lineup announced
3: 2015 - full moon New York 6:09 pm EST
Feb 2015 - Street Sounds #10 Dropkick Murphys: The Spirit survives
Feb 1995 - Skinhead Times #16 (farewell issue)
Feb 1994 - Liquidator #2
Feb 1988 - Zoot #7
January 2015
30: 2008 - R.I.P. Sean Finnegan, drummer from Void and an original member of the Dischord family, age 43
30: 2007 - Lily Allen's debut, Alright, Still release date in USA, heavy on the Studio One samples
30: 1980 - Specials Live at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston
29: 2015 - but not our UTs
25: 2001 - Dave Wakeling interview is our best yet
25: 1980 - Specials at Hurrah/ review by Fred Schruers appears 2 months later in Rolling Stone #313
24: 2015 - Berlin City Ska Festival on stage on at the Astra, Berlin Germany
20: 2015 - the Duff Guide to STIFF
18: 1991 - Bosstones at Toronto's old Apocalypse Club, it's recorded
17: 2015 - English Beat, The Interrupters, Chris Murray at The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood CA 9pm all ages pay $30
17: 2015 - Soul Ska at 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Boulevard Fairfax CA 9pm PST
17: 2015 - Some Ska Band live Hotshots VB Club 1046 University Avenue, 2 - 4pm EST
17: 1970 - Derrick Morgan 'Moon Hop' enters the UK pop chart for 1 week at #49
16: 2015 - Mrs. Skannotto at Flour City Station, or 5head Sticky Lips BBQ Rochester
16: 2015 - Bim Skala Bim at Johnny D's Uptown Somerville MA 21+, $15
16: 2014 - 5329 since Toasters last played Bug Jar
15: 1999 - Steve Pietaster silver platform boots
14: 1995 - Dancecrasher fest [Area 7, Skazoo, Porkers, Off The Shelf, Air Cushion Soul, Naughty Rhythms +6 more], recorded for VHS
14: 1989 - Chas Smash at 30, also Steve Lamacq writes 2 big New Musical Express pages on Zoot! and late 80s London ska awakening
14: 1965 - Chas Smash at 6, also Georgie Fame & Blue Flames Yeh Yeh
13: 2015 - Graham 'Suggs' McPherson celebrates 54
13: 1995 - Dancecrasher (the Ska event of the decade) at Central Hub Hotel, Richmond Victoria Australia 7pm, 2 night pass $25
8: 2015 - Elliott Yates final Jeopardy w/ BANKSY
6: 2015 - full moon
4: 2015 - Rude Boy George at Sellersville Theater, 24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville PA 7:30p $20
1: 2010 - Carlos Dingo Ska is Dangerous out this year
1: 1991 - Nutty Boys (Madness spinoff) at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden NW10, 8pm GMT in support of then-new Crunch! CD
Jan 2005 - Jimmy Page, Joe Massot and Me? HP#8 featured prominently in Record Collector #306
Jan 1998 - ultimate ska mayhem of Do The Dog #11
Jan 1997 - new 737 (issue #7 of the Bosstones-inspired fanzine)
Jan 1995 - new 737 (issue #4 of the Bosstones-inspired fanzine)

December
31: 2014 - New Year's Eve show sold out: MM Bosstones/ Interrupters/ Wolf Tickets, 7pm #Buffalo
30: 1987 - Goldenvoice presents The Untouchables, The Question and No Doubt at The Roxy Sunset Blvd.
28: 2009 - Hometown Throwdown #12 openers are Pietasters plus a Bim Skala Bim reunion, Boston House of Blues
26: 2014 - annual Joe Strummer Tribute at Town Ballroom in Buffalo NY
26: 2014 - people get ready...
25: 2014 - Rudebwoy Santa's in town!
23: 2014 - aluminum poles for the rest of us
22: 2004 - Bucket's budget for garlic
22: 2002 - Strummer died suddenly in his home, aged 50
20: 2014 - Slackers & Jesse w/ Mephiskapheles at Bell House in Brooklyn NY 9pm, $20
20: 1988 - first London Int'l Ska Fest (2 nights) includes Bim Skala Bim; NME will write this up in January
19: 1985 - the Deltones first appearance at Gaz' Rockin Blues Gossips 69 Dean Street W1 9:30-3:30
17: 1994 - Bo Diddley + Chesterfield Kings' Christmas show at Milestones 50 East Ave, 9pm
17: 1977 - Elvis Costello's false start on SNL #54 gets him banned for the next dozen years
13: 1993 - slated release date for American Skathic compilation out (on CD only) and distributed by Cargo Rec Chicago + Moon Records
12: 2014 - Noble Vibes Temple Bar
12: 2014 - Jamaican legend Charley Organaire and Monty Montgomery (Neysmith, of Symarip fame) at Mayne Stage Chicago
12: 2014 - King Hammond vs Roddy Radiation, + Skabretta at Dublin Castle, London £10
10: 1990 - Hotknives' classic The Way Things Are on Unicorn UK; its grover.de reissue CD follows mid 1995
7: 2012 - ROC the Casbah Clash Tribute Bug Jar
6: 2014 - full moon (07:27 am EST)
6: 1969 - FABULOUS 208 popweekly w/ Jimmy Cliff Don Powell & Jim Lea of Slade on the cover
5: 2014 - Beat Brigade, Rude Boy George (record release party 11pm) Scofflaws 10pm no cover at Otto's Shrunken Head, NYC
5: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca NY & we listen to this en route
4: 2003 - Rancid Water Street
4: 1981 - BAM #118 RASTA RISING Reggae in the Bay Area 54 page 11x14" newspaper format
3: 2014 - R.I.P. Graeme Goodall, aged 82
3: 1995 - Bosstones UR Palestra
2: 1984 - the worst industrial tragedy in history – an estimated 25,000 people killed as a result
1: 1989 - Derrick Morgan records PHZA-63 at Aosis Studio, Chalk Farm London UK
Dec 2014 - Do The Dog Skazine #75 Bosstones cover
Dec 2014 - Record Collector #434 The Jam (making of Setting Sons), Prince, oui oui rare France Reggae 45s, stuck on irie philately
Dec 2010 - Scoot Magazine recaps our local NISC rally in this issue
Dec 1994 - Skazette #14
Dec 1976 - Blast Magazine has The Who/ Zappa/ BOC/ Rastaman Invasion
November
30: 2014 - 70,000+ likes can't be wrong! proclaims NYC SKA Toasters FB
30: 1997 - Sunday matinee w/ Pilfers, Professionals, and Enrique Slavadas Funtime Trio meet Amy Azzolina, Penny Arcade
28: 2014 - Kevin meets Winston via Howard's promo copy on SMRSLT
26: 1997 - Bren Events present Reel Big Fish at uci.edu, Irvine CA
25: 2014 - Lint turns 49, Suggs and Barso talk 1979 to The Guardian
25: 1967 - The Pyramids' Train Tour To Rainbow City enters the UK chart at #38
24: 1994 - Big Hair, Grimskunk, Lethargy on Thanksgiving night at HBB; 2C carnival poster variants are maroon/K, green/K
24: 1979 - The Bodysnatchers make their debut tonight at Windsor Castle in London
22: 2014 - 5head Abilene
22: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim SUNY Buffalo
21: 2014 - locate 1/250th of JAR008 (reasonably-obscure Miggedys' Informal Gathering cassette)
21: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim Haunt Ithaca
21: 1994 - release date Out of Nowhere Parco / Nippon Columbia number QTCY-2050 format: CD
18: 1981 - Bad Manners release the R&B Party Four EP
17: 2014 - Special AKA's In the Studio 180gm LP reissue
16: 2001 - first HP#7 sold
15: 2014 - Skanksgiving '14 w/ Pietasters, Mephiskapheles, +3 Starland Ballroom Sayerville, NJ all ages $17 adv/$20 dos
14: 2014 - Rude Boy George, Across The Aisle, The Screw Ups at Two Boots in Bridgeport CT $5 8pm
13: 1985 - Deltones + The Scheme at Sol-Y-Sombra, London W1 10pm til
11: 2000 - Bim Skala Bim Water St, in support of KRINKLE
7: 2014 - Lorde at 18
6: 2004 - yawn factory 'it's warm in there' harvey pekar reads HP8!
5: 1996 - Boston area compilation, Safe and Sound on Big Rig-Mercury; The Impression that I Get appears on it
5: 1990 - Keeping Up Appearances (BBC programme) mentions hoi polloi
2: 2014 - Ler Lalonde reads HP5! Primus & the Chocolate Factory w/ Fungi Ensemble tour stop, 8pm $40
2: 1994 - Ben went to the Abyss. Wednesday night in Downtown Rochester (shudder). There are a couple of guys spinning Ska there.
Nov 2014 - Street Sounds #9 cover: Lars Gang In Town
Nov 2008 - Big Shot #5 celebrates Liquidator Madrid labelman Toni Face's 10 jahre
Nov 1999 - Rude International #4 with Jimmy Cliff
Nov 1998 - AP#124 Chico Moreno cover, in the rag Culture Clash: The 2-Tone Ska Story by Chris Nickson
Nov 1996 - Bass Player Magazine special on Dub Reggae, Aston Barrett, Robbie Shakespeare, Bill Laswell
Nov 1995 - 737 issue #6
Nov 1994 - OZ-SKA-LIA premiere issue from Ivan Downey and Kane Docker, Elsternwick Melbourne VIC (down under)
Nov 1992 - Thumper release their debut, entitled Rabbit Wreaking Havoc
Nov 1989 - Andy Warhol's magazine, Interview celebrates 20 years (w/ Ziggy Marley cover)
Nov 1984 - Jake Benway reviews Toasters' new Beat Up 7" in the East Village Eye
Nov 1967 - Beat Instrumental #55 has Hendrix/ Kinks/ Traffic/ Ska Music/
October
31: 2014 - Over 400 scary ska songs!
31: 1997 - GWAR, Mephiskapheles, Biastfear in Cleveland, Agora Theatre by Derek Hess; blue stock, black ink, offset-print
31: 1983 - the B-52's +1 at R.I.T.
30: 2014 - 3rd Annual NYC Devil's Night w/Toasters, Mephiskapheles, +3 more at Mercury Lounge 217 E Houston. 21+, $20
29: 1990 - Trojan Records UK release TRLS 283 spagetti reggae compilation The Magnificent 14, Jimmy Cliff's Unlimited
28: 1997 - John Wayne to Barbara Walters? Toasters 7th album, D.L.T.B.G.Y.D., released on Moon Ska Records as MR123
27: 2014 - The Loafers mention our 2001 review of their 1998 CD compilation of 1989 vinyl material?!
27: 2014 - It's been 5+ years since the last Rancid record, a new one out today Honor Is All We Know
27: 1996 - Allstonians final draft [word .doc] for HP3 backpages
27: 1995 - Neil Strauss puts SKA IN NYT
27: 1994 - HI-BOP SKA from Skatalites: The 30th Anniversary Recording Label: SHANACHIE Format: CD out today
27: 1984 - An orange postcard for Toasters at CBGB 1AM, new Beat Up single is $3 out now on Icebear Records
27: 1979 - LOOK MA SPECIALS ODEON ROOFTOP SOUNDS MAGAZINE UK
26: 1881 - Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ. Play the Loafers song for more detail
25: 2014 - Badfish (Sublime tribute) WSMH
25: 1996 - Blue Moon/ Magnum Music UK reissue Potato 5 True Fact (Rackit mash-001, 1988) now as "Laurel Aitken - Rocksteady Party"
24: 2014 - English Beat, B-Side Basterds at Iron Works 49 Illinois Street, Buffalo NY 8PM $20
23: 2014 - RSS feed? a postcard from Charles, sent from Coventry! also Alex Desert (Hepcat, The Lions) appearance on #ScandalABC tv
23: 1992 - Skaface (Toronto ON) at Horizontal Boogie Bar Rochester 18+ $6/7
21: 2014 - Toasters' SHOCKER hot sauce rolling out in Raleigh NC tonight
21: 2014 - Cheer up Charlie, new Primus record!
20: 2004 - Dub is a Weapon + GPGDS, Club at Water St
19: 2014 - R.I.P. John Holt, aged 67
17: 1989 - Rico Rodrieguez turns 55; also the Loma Prieta Earthquake (aka California Skaquake) hits 5:04 PST, pancake freeways
15: 2005 - English Beat WSMH
14: 2014 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra w/ Pandemics at Irving Plaza NYC $42
14: 1981 - Madness' film out in theatres
13: 1997 - Selecter Rochester (monday night)
13: 1994 - Ska Explosion '94 at Club Quattro, Tokyo Japan, [Tower Records' Pulse] when JWJ records Summer Come Lovin'
12: 1976 - Circus #141 reggae feature with Peter Tosh, U Roy, Burning Spear
11: 1993 - CD compilation: The Best of 2 Tone (Toshiba Chrysalis Japan) released
10: 2008 - R.I.P. Alton Ellis, O.D., aged 70
7: 1997 - Mephiskapheles' 2nd album, Maximum Perversion out on Moon
6: 2014 - Millie Small turns 67 today
4: 1994 - Ichiban/ Naked Language artist: Strange Tenants' Bluebeat Party UPC 019011612720 out in USA
Oct 1998 - Seven Thirty Seven #8 "It's about time"
Oct 1994 - Eulan's final Skaville Times newspaper out of Fort Collins, Colorado "all the Ska fit to print"
Oct 1989 - Record Collector #122 features Prince, Beatles and The 2Tone Story Part 1
September
30: 2014 - STEADY, the new Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad disc out on Easystar Records today
29: 2008 - deluxe issue Skinhead Moonstomp 2CD of the 1970 Trojan Records reggae classic!
28: 2014 - variant of MR065 discovered down in basement
28: 1995 - Fugazi, Blonde Redhead at Harro East Ballroom Rochester
27: 1980 - NME cover is a Specials stage invasion at Bristol
26: 1980 - Pretenders at Capitol Theatre 326 Monroe Street, Passiac NJ; English Beat is support act
25: 1990 - The Ska Parade begins on UCLA radio
24: 2014 - some ska band seeks trombone + trumpet
24: 1981 - Peter Tosh at Triangle Theater, Rochester
23: 1994 - Pulp Fiction is the new movie by Quentin Tarantino
21: 2014 - It's A Ska World After All 2014! 4th Annual Ska Day at Disneyland, Anaheim CA (@itsaskaworld)
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian CE Oster, aged 30; exactly ten years since his beloved Pilfers' Chawalaleng out
21: 1996 - The Chicago Scooter Madness rally was one of the satellite rallies of the InterNat Scooter Rally ‘96
20: 2014 - Viva Ska Vegas '14, Fremont Country Club 601 Fremont St Las Vegas 89101
13: 2014 - Mephiskapheles, Mrs. Skannotto, B-Side Basterds +2 at Waiting Room in Buffalo. Count Chocula® = emigre Totally Gothic
10: 1999 - ska equals bowties, geddit? Perfect Thyroid w/ Mexican Cession SUNY Geneseo
5: 2014 - R.I.P. Larry and Jane Glazer, aged 68 in sudden plane crash off the coast of Jamaica
4: 2014 - R.I.P. Hopeton Lewis, aged 66
3: 1980 - The English Beat + John Peel's musical gravitas
Sep 2004: Ska In The World #12 (Japan) has Aggrolites, Slackers, Stingers ATX
Sep 1998: Skin Up Magazin #49 (Germany) Prince Buster, Agnostic Front, Rancid, Jazz Jamaica
Sep 1997: MOJO #46 innards about Radiohead, Prince Buster
Sep 1992: VOX #24 Suggs cover MADNESS Why the Nutty Boys came back
August
30: 2014 - Aaron Barrett, voice of Reel Big Fish and its last remaining original member, turns 40
29: 2000 - Bim Skala Bim KRINKLE out today
27: 1997 - Pietasters WSMH live taping + interview for Tommy Brunett Universal Buzz Radio (VooDoo Glow Skulls, Snapcase, Union were not)
25: 2014 - Elvis Costello is 60, NYC cartoonist Bob Fingerman is 50
24: 1996 - Skunks monochrome No Apologies released as MR079
24: 1995 - RS#715 has Courtney Love / MM Bosstones
23: 1994 - Toasters' iconic 5th studio album DUB 56 released; snappy art by Blanquito Man + the return of Coolie Ranx on chats!
22: 2014 - Slackers' Concert Cruise w/ the Screw-Ups departs 7pm 60 Rowes Wharf, Boston MA, 21+, $25-30 USD
22: 1989 - the Devil is Back on T-44
21: 1988 - R.I.P. Ray Eames, aged 77
21: 1978 - R.I.P. Charles Eames Jr., aged 71
18: 2014 - SOUND SYSTEM ROOTS From American R'n'B To Jamaican Ska CD ESSENTIAL MUSIC DISTRIBUTION CAT NO. PSALM2383
18: 1998 - Toasters Live in London w/ Dr. Ring Ding (MR-143) at Borderline, Charing Cross Road recorded
18: 1982 - Elvis Costello & the Attractions Rochester Auditorium, John Scher presents 8pm, $11.50
17: 1998 - Toasters Live in London w/ Dr. Ring Ding (MR-143) at Borderline, Charing Cross Road recorded
17: 1989 - Laurel Aitken 30th Anniversary Concert (at Gaz's Rockin' Blues SoHo) is recorded for the only Unicorn video, PHZV-51
16: 2014 - Ska Revival TOUR: The Snails, The Last Slice, Survay Says!, Kill Lincoln, Drake City 7pm All Ages at Trocadero in Philly PA
16: 2003 - HP issue #8 now available
16: 1998 - Perfect Thyroid plays Woodstock? A DAY IN THE GARDEN Yasgur's Farm, Bethel NY
15: 2014 - supposedly Prince Buster The Ska Singles 1961–1962 out on compact disc Digipak® in UK today
15: 2014 - MISIRLOU? Let's get a taco!!!
15: 2000 - Fishbone Darien Lake
15: 1998 - Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis together at Westbury Music Fair, 960 Brush Hollow Rd Westbury NY $40
15: 1995 - CDTRL356 released on Trojan Records today
14: 2014 - King Hammond and Bim Skala Bim tour New England
14: 2013 - Beachland Ballroom Cleveland English Beat
14: 1986 - N.Y. Beat Hit & Run record release party at the Cat Club NYC. $10/ show 10:30pm, Toasters on at 1am
13: 1982 - Jimmy Cliff + Peter Tosh Reggae Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles CA
11: 2014 - R.I.P. Mork from Ork, aged 63
11: 2014 - Stanley Turpentine is 60
10: 2014 - super moon tonight, also Ian Poulter's nanny in with the rabble
10: 2000 - Dave Hillyard brings his Rocksteady 7 to Rochester NY. They'll return 3/26/03
9: 2014 - Allstonians, The Change Up, Blanket Party, Root 150, Blueprint for a Riot - The Cavern Club, Hard Rock Cafe Boston $15, 21+, 7:30
9: 2014 - Some Ska Band live noon-2pm at Reisling Festival, Canandaigua NY
9: 1996 - Hoi Polloi! meets Allstonians w/ Roger 'Pudge' Fisk and Johnny Too Bad & Strikeouts Styleen's Rhythm Palace in Syracuse NY
6: 2014 - Mighty Mighty BossTones on ABC-TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Episode #106 2 songs
6: 1962 - Jamaican Independence Day; see Lord Creator's "Independent Jamaica" for more
5: 1995 - CQ the WiX sez In Hi-Fi will be better late than never
5: 1983 - The Police Picnic w/ Peter Tosh Simple Minds The Fixx Blue Peter King Sunny Ade CNE Exhibition Stadium Toronto ONT, Canada
5: 2014 - The Interrupters debut self-titled record was released on Hellcat Records today
4: 2014 - Thommo Moughan is 36
3: 2014 - Lee 'El Thommo' Thompson - He Of Madness Ska Orchestra LIVE at Fiddler's Elbow Primrose Hill London UK Tickets from £10
2: 2014 - PRINCE BUSTER Fabulous Greatest Hits (1993 Sequel UK 24 tracks) $8 used locally in Greece NY mall
2: 2014 - Heart of Ska Festival, Kingston Jamaica
2: 2014 - Leeds Ska & Mod Festival 2014 17:45 GMT
1: 2014 - Mrs. Skannotto live at the Montage Music Hall, Rochester NY; also Madness in Bordeaux? Reggae Sun Ska Festival
1: 1999 - The Ska Flames live at Fuji Rock Festival, Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata, Japan
Aug 2004 - JazzTimes cover: Ernie Ranglin & Monte Alexander Rocksteady! (new record out on Telarc Jazz label)
Aug 2002 - Mojo #105 - Bob Marley cover, Ezz Reco, Stranglers, Who and Skatalites
Aug 1998 - Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet Book 2
Aug 1995 - Record Collector #192 BLUE BEAT - Mike Atherton & Laurence CH tell the story of ska's most famous label in 8 pages
Aug 1994 - Tazy & Albino's quintessential guide to third wave, The Herenow of Ska appears in Mean Street
Aug 1994 - Mojo #9 The Clash
Aug 1986 - THE RISK record PHZA-2 at Mix Masters, San Diego California
July
28: 2014 - The Best of 2Tone is a new (old Toshiba JP) compilation release on CD, 2xLP, digital download and streaming
28: 2013 - Bakesys Midday Joggers?
28: 2007 - Aggrolites Club Diablo Buffalo NY
28: 1979 - ...Are you planning a bootleg L.P.?
27: 1987 - Laurel Aitken, Desmond Dekker, The Trojans and Maroon Town c/o Gaz's Rockin' Blues at Astoria London
26: 2000 - Full Tension Beaters the new CD by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra out on Avex Trax Japan/ Grover Germany today
26: 1969 - 'Sweetened Ska Beat could sweep the country claims Des Dekker's producer' (Graeme Goodall) NME newsprint by Alan Smith
25: 2004 - Ska Throwdown Jump Up Records' 10th Anniversary Sunday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
24: 2004 - Ska Throwdown Jump Up Records' 10th Anniversary Saturday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
24: 1964 - Rochester race riots begin, continue for 3 days until the National Guard arrives
23: 2004 - Ska Throwdown Jump Up Records' 10th Anniversary Friday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
21: 2014 - Bigger Thomas is a triple stumper for $2000 on Jeopardy #6886
21: 1996 - Miggedys couple new songs at Wetlands; also TSPO techno single Rock Monster Strikes Back released in Japan
20: 2003 - obey via Buffalo NY
20: 1996 - we chose to go to the Moon store [150 E. 2nd St] for Porkers' Grunt, then to Toasters 7 Willow Street in Port Chester NY
20: 1969 - we choose to go to the MOON
19: 2011 - the Reverend Sam (baby yellow Miggedys CD design) talks on WHAM 13 TV news on the street because Borders Books is closing!
18: 2014 - Nelson Mandela Day? play SKAOS' 1988 'South African Struggle' for more detail; also Alex Désert (Hepcat) is 46
17: 2005 - R.I.P. Laurel Aitken, aged 78
17: 2004 - E. Mearns spies a packed Moon Ska bag next to a BOZE dumpster by the tire place on Astoria Blvd?!
17: 1993 - Midwest Fest 93 draws 1000+ rabid ska fans to Cafe Metro, Chicago IL
16: 2014 - fonts for Android?
16: 1995 - Miggedys w/ Skavoovie at Water St Music Hall - Spring Heeled Jack are no shows in Area Code 716
13: 2004 - There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen who comes into my house every night...
13: 2002 - Legends of Ska Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto ON, it's recorded
13: 1983 - 'Stepping Razor' PETER TOSH at Bogart's in Cincinnati OH, USA
12: 2002 - Legends of Ska Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto ON, it's recorded
11: 2014 - R.I.P. Tommy Ramone, aged 65
11: 2012 - Bosstones for $400 on Jeopardy #6418
11: 2002 - R.I.P. Roscoe Gordon, aged 74
11: 1999 - Laurel Aitken/Allstonians/Porkers Wetlands it's recorded - New York, NY
11: 1986 - Club Paradise opens in theatres nationwide
10: 2014 - Slackers at The Underworld Camden 174 Camden High St, Regent's Park, London NW1 0NE UK
10: 2000 - Bim Skala Bim American Playhouse (Dojo UK) found used locally cheap
8: 2012 - Le Grand Miercoles recorded Ghost Cowboys this week and Pablo Lacruz used House Industries fonts on package!
5: 2014 - 60 years since Elvis Presley recorded his first single, SUN209. Play the Steady Earnest cover for better detail
5: 1989 - A show about nothing? The Seinfeld Chronicles premieres on NBC TV
4: 1993 - Gettin' in free with a phony name? NY Citizens record 'Brooklyn's On Fire' w/ Michael Nucedar at Quad Recording (red Nosho 7")
3: 2014 - Madness/ Toasters at 6pm Arena Wien Openair in Vienna, Austria but CANCELLED
1: 2014 - 15th Annual Victoria BC Ska Fest with Shaggy, Aggrolites, Fishbone, loads more
1: 1995 - Big Hair, Can't Say (smAlbany's Heaviest SKA) + debut of The Veins at Milestones 50 East Ave
1: 1994 - Big Hair, Lethargy split 7" release party, HBB
July 2014 - Street Sounds #7 w/ Dave Wakeling & more
July 1999 - Everything Off-Beat Scenezine
July 1983 - wicked Lee Perry illustration on Reggae/African Beat summer issue
June
29: 2004 - GIVE ME AN "H" $4,800 (Daily Double): Often misused, this Greek term means the common people, or the masses. #4577
29: 1989 - Potato 5 live at Gaz's
28: 1997 - SKATURDAY airs on MTV (Music Television) in the States, Carson Daly as host
25: 2014 - The Dave Wakeling English Beat crowdfund NEW ALBUM For Crying Out Loud click here
25: 2004 - the night of the big fire at the Kleen-Brite factory; smoke for miles and 'Ghost Town' playing on 90.5 FM
22: 2014 - Primus + Fishbone $7 at Gratwick Park open-air, North Tonawanda NY
22: 1989 - Napoleon Solo (DK) live at Gaz's
21: 2014 - some people said BossTones, Gaslight Anthem +1 play in Boston City Hall Plaza for Dicky's 50th birthday!
21: 1994 - Rancid Let's Go out on Epitaph today
21: 1992 - King Sunny Ade + Big Roots HBB Rochester 8pm $12/$15 DOS
21: 1990 - The Toasters at Scorgies, 150 Andrews St
21: 1980 - Melody Maker, 64 page weekly rag, features 3 page interview w/ J Dammers. Neatly folded, copy remains in excellent condition!
20: 2008 - Skatalites Jazzfest free East & Alexander stage
20: 2000 - Toots & the Maytals Water Street
19: 1981 - Jimmy Cliff w/ the Majestics at Auditorum Theatre Rochester; $8.50 admittance to drAwkward's first reggae show
18: 1983 - Untouchables, Felony, Jimmy & The Mustangs show at Pico Rivera Sports Arena for KROQ 7pm - 2am PST
18: 1923 - A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I? Checker Cab Co. produces first taxi at Kalamazoo MI factory
17: 1994 - J.S. Hall/ King Missile instore Mount Hope Record Archive; get Lethargy tape/ OJ Simpson white Bronco chase
17: 1984 - Yellowman at Calabash, Rochester NY
17: 1958 - nineteen men were drown when the bridge came tumblin' down
16: 2014 - Jah Crunchy can't drive 55! You might recall his SPECIALS Musicmass on WBER FM winter '93
15: 1990 - UB40 with the Smithereens at Darien Lake 7:30p
14: 2014 - Jamaican Oldies Productions presents Dennis Alcapone w/Drastics MC Zulu, Akasha at Mayne Stage, Chicago. Aaron Cohen!
14: 2014 - Mrs. Skannotto new release party at Bug Jar, Rochester NY
14: 2003 - BossTones (Pietasters/VGS/ Catch 22) High Falls Festival site
14: 1994 - Charlie Dahan & Toots Hibbert outside JFK during the Rangers game?!
13: 2014 - full moon, also Toasters boat cruise departs Gloucester MA
13: 1992 - King Apparatus w/ Dharma Bums Horizontal Boogie Bar, 18+
12: 2014 - 25 years since Toasters + Potato 5 recorded in Islington London for Unicorn Records' live elpees!
11: 1983 - Untouchables instore at 2pm Moby Disc (6553 Topanga) Canoga Park, CA
8: 1988 - PHZA-21 Skankin' Round The World: The International Ska Compilation and dot-matrix press release via Unicorn Records
8: 2014 - Pueblo Fantasma? Desorden Publico (Venezuela Ska since '85) come to Brooklyn NY USA!
8: 1984 - "There is no Dana, only ZUUL!" Ghostbusters opens in theatres
7: 2014 - The Moonstompers, Riffs at 100 Club Soho, London UK
7: 1990 - Mark Foggo's Skasters live at Gaz's
6: 2014 - National Donut Day/ what would Oscar Wilde say?
5: 2001 - Bosstones' begin 3 Night Stand at Milestones Rochester NY
4: 1994 - "I'll be in your audience the Fourth of June"
4: 1989 - Deng Xiaoping Massacre in Tianamen Square China; The Trojans dedicate this to the victims
2: 2014 - If you see Ritchie Senior 'Dr. Ring Ding' Jung today wish him a happy 44th
1: 2014 - APPLESTOMP 2 Irving Plaza NYC has been postponed, then cancelled
June 2007 - UNCUT (Macca cover) has THE SPECIALS 1980 rocking shots of the 2-Tone titans on a very British seaside tour 4 pages worth
June 1995 - Backflash! the Miggedys Skank 'til You Graduate by Ralph Tetta
June 1994 - JE261 SKA EXPLOSION 2 various live at the Astoria, London 3/23/89 54 minutes VHS
May
31: 2014 - APPLESTOMP 2 Irving Plaza NYC
30: 2014 - banned Sin City 2 poster recalls Adam Turman/ The Toasters' One More Bullet artwork
30: 1994 - only time I ever saw G. Danzig perfom live
30: 1981 - Bad Brains + Subhumans (Vancouver) A171, L.E.S. NY NY $3 byob
30: 1964 - debut U.S. Release is titled England's Newest Hit makers: The Rolling Stones
29: 2014 - Some ska band (+ ex-Steakout Pat Coniff) at Sticky Lips II, 830 Jefferson Rd, Henrietta NY 9-11pm. What a classy poster!
29: 1986 - Bad Manners at Gaz's
28: 2014 - Frantic Frank reviews The Outlier, latest CD/LP by Mrs. Skannotto in this week's City paper
28: 1992 - Prince Buster turns 54; Square Roots in the Los Angeles Times
28: 1983 - Prince Buster turns 45; also English Beat's 2nd appearance at woz's US Festival it's recorded
27: 2014 - R.I.P. Massimo Vignelli, aged 83. It was once said of his work “If you do it right, it will last forever”
27: 2006 - Os Mutantes in the news
26: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Adolphus Dacres, aged 64
26: 1991 - Bim Skala Bim kicks off another national tour, this time from Hobart College in Geneva NY
25: 2014 - Towel Day
25: 1996 - R.I.P. Bradley Nowell, aged 27
24: 2014 - Mephiskapheles w/ Mill Bastards, The Newman Brothers HAUNT 702 Willow Ave Ithaca, NY 14850 doors 8PM 16+ only, $12
24: 2014 - Rude Boys Rule
23: 2014 - Rude Boy George plays Fontana's on the Lower East Side
23: 1996 - Toasters at Whiskey Los Angeles CA, it's recorded w/ multi-camera shoot for VHS tape greenshell (HBFD Tour)
22: 2014 - Jerry Dammers turns 59; he also just won an award
21: 2014 - 60,000+ likes can't be wrong! proclaims NYC SKA Toasters FB
21: 2003 - final episode of Jenny Jones Show airs
20: 1996 - CD GAZ 014 The Trojans' Cool Rulers release party at Paradise W10 London
20: 1980 - mastering label from the Sock It To 'Em, JB recording session at Wessex Studios. Half of the Specials' limited RSD2014 single too
18: 1974 - Erno Rubik's Cube
17: 2014 - Mosaic Foundation 2:30pm / the original Wailers at 106th annual Lilac Festival, 7pm Free
16: 2014 - Upstate NY Reggae guy is 46; also Thunderbody at 106th annual Lilac Festival, 7pm Free/ Cancelled due to rain
16: 2000 - Upstate NY Reggae guy is 32; also Punk O Rama Tour WSMH Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls, Distillers, Dwarves 7pm
15: 2014 - Buddhahood at 106th annual Lilac Festival, 4pm Free
15: 2009 - out of my brain on the five-fifteen
14: 2014 - Full Flower Moon at 3:15 P.M. EDT
13: 2014 - Neville Staple solo Ska Crazy CD/LP released on Cleopatra Records UK, pre-release Amazon in U.S.
11: 1981 - Bullets couldn't kill Marley, but cancer did (12:30pm EST) aged 36, Miami FL
10: 2014 - R.I.P. Jadiel El Tsunami, aged 27, motorcycle crash 4pm EST
10: 2014 - Brewtown ska? Max & The Invaders in the WI paper
10: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca; you can read a review of it in HP#2
10: 1994 - JW Gacy "the killer clown" executed
9: 2014 - Noble Vibes has a new brickfilm for Reggae Highway! They also open this year's Lilac Festival at 4PM EST
9: 1998 - Mephiskapheles in the rain R.I.T. w/ Thommo, A Hitchcock, Peter Gollan, Sean McCausland, it's recorded
9: 1997 - Bim Skala Bim Universal tour stop; Professionals/ 5 Head openers at Water St Rochester
8: 1998 - Goldmine Magazine #464 has Sleater/Kinney, Moon Ska Records' Bucket, Elvis Costello!
6: 2014 - Mearns at 37. Also Aquabats 20th Anniversary tour stop Town Ballroom Buffalo NY
6: 1937 - Oh the humanity! Fiery crash of D-LZ129 Hindenburg, above Lakehurst N.J.; see Led Zeppelin 1969 sleeve for more detail
5: 2004 - R.I.P. Clement 'Sir Coxon' Dodd, aged 72
4: 2014 - May the Fourth Be with You
4: 1983 - 7:30AM, a tired New York band walked out after their 1st gig at Lower East Side’s notorious A7 Club with $30 – and a black eye
3: 2014 - Free Comic Book Day
3: 2003 - Blackouts' final show Jillian's High Falls - guest vox by JoAnn V. on the RBF cover
3: 1995 - scheduled to open for No Doubt tonight, the last anyone ever saw DJ Rob La Rock (Hoodlum Empire/ Oakland CA), aged 26
3: 1979 - The Specials Live at the Moonlight Club, London UK recorded. [CHR TTX 5011 180gm LP 2014]
2: 2014 - Bim Skala Bim at Freedom Sounds Music Festival, Cologne Germany
2: 1945 - Alexander Minto Hughes (bka Judge Dread) born
1: 2014 - "Mayday Mayday Cuba do you read me?" Slackers return to Buffalo NY, gig's been moved to Town Ballroom
1: 1981 - The Beat begins UK tour behind their 2nd full LP, Wha'ppen?
May 2014 - Mojo #246 has Debbie Blondie, Terry Hall, Damon Albarn, more
May 2014 - Big Cheese #167 magazine (UK) has Less Than Jake, Brody Dalle, more
May 2013 - Street Sounds #3 w/ Pauline Black Made in Britain, also King Hammond
May 1997 - CMJ New Music Monthly #45 BossTones clarify "we love ska, but we are not a ska band" to Chris Nickson
May 1996 - Everybody must get Record Collector #201
May 1981 - Trouser Press #61
May 1974 - Norman Mailer, Esquire

April
30: 2011 - Water Street Music Hall has The Pietasters w/H.R. (Bad Brains) 8pm 16+ w/ID $10 adv / $15 dos
30: 1994 - MM Bosstones, Shootyz Groove, Dracula Jones - Seymour Union Ballroom, SUNY Brockport
29: 2014 - R.I.P. Bob Hoskins, aged 71
29: 1995 - Yolk, Perfect Thyroid + Nazareth College Springfest
28: 2014 - King Hammond's new one, Cuban Missile, available on iTunes
28: 2001 - new Anthony Modano 1C devil graphic used for MM Bosstones, Kicked In The Head, Blackouts - Kuhl Gym, SUNY Geneseo
28: 1999 - First version of this site up
27: 2004 - Mustard Plug #1132 Rochester, Steel Music Hall (Ska Is Dead package tour)
27: 2000 - Spider Nick & Maddogs + Blackouts (Foot Locker) Water St. Music Hall
27: 1998 - Mustard Plug #586 Rochester, Water Street Music Hall (Ska Against Racism package tour)
26: 2005 - 40 more HP#8s copied, collated, folded, stapled/ then eventually packaged, addressed, stamped, and USPS mailed away
25: 2014 - 5Head at Abilene, 10pm
23: 2014 - Chas Benoit (Rochester NY) interviews Monty Alexander over on Joe Scholes' blog!
23: 1999 - (Friday) Roel from Skanky 'Lil Records Eindhoven NL makes contact
23: 1996 - Perfect Thyroid + Nazareth College Springfest (moved inside gym due to rain)
22: 2014 - 50th anniversary of 1964 World's Fair opening at Flushing Meadows Corona Park NYC; Hundreds of history buffs & tourists wait in line for hours!
22: 2003 - Randy Chin and The Rough Guide to Ska
21: 2007 - Fix-O-dent and forget it!
20: 2014 - what they do on that bus?
19: 2014 - JB? this year Record Store Day #RSD2014 has Specials vinyl on offer, limited edition 1000
19: 1997 - final Miggedys show is at SUNY Geneseo's annual Earth Day Fest. Oyer reports it as "the worst way to go"
19: 1980 - Specials on SNL
18: 2003 - Toasters Rochester (Easter weekend) by Fritz
18: 1988 - Toasters record "Thrill Me Up" in Brooklyn for their forthcoming (Skaloid/Celluloid Records) L.P.
17: 2014 - London Int'l Ska Festival runs 4 days, 50 acts from around the world across 15 events at famed and iconic London venues
8: 1997 - Mustard Plug #424 Rochester, Milestones with The Twistoffs (Bechle's van robbed)
8: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim, Arsenals, Skaface all at El Mocambo, Toronto ON
7: 1980 - 2Tone Ska in TIME®; Toots & the Maytals' Chatty Chatty out on Island 45
6: 2014 - Joe Gittleman, the bass fiddleman is 46
6: 1999 - HP bumperstickers made (in Reno) are still stuck 2014
4: 2014 - Doc Awk is 59! Also The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain, MA has Copacetics, Allstonians, New Limits, Screw-Ups for $6, 21+ 8PM
1: 2014 - Marco On The Bass celebrates 6 years of the very best in epic Ska/ Reggae web loggin'
Apr 1996 - A Clown Killed My Dad #2 is the ska 'zine devoted to the life of John Wayne Gacy/ by Andipantz Gingerich, York PA
March
31: 2014 - Jeopardy! 50 years
30: 2014 - Mr. Dick Storms turns 68! Perhaps in honour of this, Russ T. Needledrop is holding a record show at Zeppa Aud/ German House
30: 2014 - Batman turns 75; Detective Comics #27 on this date in 1939
28: 2014 - NY's Charles B and Duff Guy Steve X talk Rude Boy George!
28: 1980 - Duke Vin vs. Jah Shaka soundclash! Additional support from Brum's Wide Boys at The Electric Ballroom, Camden London
28: 1969 - Desmond Dekker & the Aces make their first London appearance at The Flamingo Club, according to Record Mirror
27: 1980 - Bad Manners/ Bodysnatchers/ Swinging Cats at The Electric Ballroom, Camden London
26: 2014 - Richard Saul Wurman is 79
26: 1998 - Rob Cullivan (City Newspaper) claims Bim Skala Bim is at old Milestones; I have no recollection
26: 1996 - MR067 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. Special Potato reissue 3/19/02 +3 bonus tracks from the original recording sessions
26: 1993 - King Missile in-store, House of Guitars
25: 2014 - new City Gardens book details 80's Trenton NJ scene! Gibby Haynes earnestly explains 'fanzines' to the audience!
25: 1999 - Bim Skala Bim + 5Head at new Milestones, it's recorded
25: 1998 - HP#5 out now
25: 1980 - Last Resort bassist Arthur Kay has his first solo single out Ska Wars b/w Warska (Red Admiral Records)
23: 1996 - hear Mr. Twist over the Davis Gymnasium public address/ MR-065 dayglo acid green press release arrives later
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim w/ Koo Koo Boy Boogie Bar Rochester
22: 2002 - Bouncing Souls, Pietasters w/Erick Morgan, Unseen, Arsons at WSMH Rochester $12, 7pm it's recorded for television
22: 1980 - She's got a loaded gun: Sara Jane Owen, Rhoda D. & Miranda J. (Bodysnatchers) water pistols on today's Record Mirror
20: 2014 - Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends WSMH $18, 16+ 7pm where Aaron Barrett remains the only original member!
20: 2014 - Rainford Hugh Perry, bka Scratch the Upsetter is 78
19: 2014 - Terry Hall (Specials/ FB3/ Colourfield) turns 55, meanwhile Jon Barra (Miggedys/ Good Samaritones/ Deltaforce 23) turns 37
19: 2006 - This Gun for Hire (original Moon Records/Important Dist. press) from FYE Eastview cutout room
18: 1994 - When I first noticed Ben Schlaver it was probably at Allstonians – Water St or HBB or whatever. I saw him a few times after that.
17: 2014 - (Monday) Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth is The No. 1 Ska, Mod, Skinhead, Scooterist, & Northern Soul weekender of 2014
17: 1995 - R.I.P. Ronnie Kray, aged 61
17: 1979 - Sister Denise starts Reggae Sounds on WITR FM radio Noon-2pm today; this broadcast will run weekly for the next 28+ years
17: 1964 - The 'Ska' hits London – but they call it Blue Beat by Maureen Cleave in The Daily Gleaner
16: 2014 - Full Worm Moon at 1:08 P.M. EST
13: 2004 - handy with a knife? Finally cut me an alphabet
13: 2003 - Thursday/ Slackers/ Milestones/ $5
13: 1998 - Judge Dread died onstage at The Penny Theatre in Canterbury Kent; Rolling Stone talks to Duff Steve about it
12: 2014 - Winter Storm Vulcan? Celebrating 25 years of Sir Tim BL's big idea
11: 1997 - Mercury 314 534 472 2 makes an impression
8: 2014 - Pilfers, Mephiskapheles, Hub City Stompers, & Rude Boy George at The Chance, Poughkeepsie NY 16+/ $15/ 7pm/ some cancel DOS
6: 2014 - Fleshtones w/ Cianciola Bros. at Abilene
6: 2001 - Kingston to Brooklyn
6: 1981 - Pete Shelley's split from Buzzcocks now official
5: 2005 - The Busters' Live in Montreaux 1995 (Weserlabel Germany) +3 more from FYE Eastview cutout room
4: 2014 - It's A Ska World After All free compilation out on Bandcamp
Mar 2014 - Mojo #244 celebrates 50 years of 'Mod gone mainstream' with a hefty Small Faces cover story
Mar 1994 - Bronco Bullfrog #5 from Mark Brown, Ibizia Spain
Mar 1980 - Relix Vol 7 #2 Richard E. Aaron took this photo of Jerry Garcia's Raggedy Ann doll which graces the cover
Mar 1953 - Science Fiction Plus, the one with the spaceman on the cover
February
28: 2014 - Noble Vibes at Firehouse Saloon in Rochester
28: 1998 - Cafe Metro, Chicago IL: Hepcat, Slackers, Gadjits, Deals Gone Bad, + DJ Chuck Wren
28: 1995 - Continuum Records' Ska The Third Wave compilation out (NJ label, later repressed via Shanachie/ Beloved)
27: 2006 - Everybody's so old now! All 3 my sisters & Jah Crunchy at Milestones
23: 2014 - 50,000+ likes can't be wrong! proclaims NYC SKA Toasters FB
23: 2010 - Kimberly Myers, 41, injured during tonight's Fishbone performance at WXPN World Cafe Live, Philly PA
23: 2005 - Toasters, WBT +1 Ska Brawl Tour at Castaways Ithaca NY
23: 1984 - 1st Technology/ Entertainment/ Design conference (TED talk). Also Times-Union tells about "The House That Armand Built"
23: 1983 - AQUARIAN #459 color cover English Beat and D. Wakeling interview
23: 1981 - Derek Block presents Bad Manners +1 at Hammersmith Palais, 7:30p
23: 1980 - Can't let the Russians win or the world will end/ also The Specials at Bookies Club 870 (870 W. McNichols Ave, Detroit!) $6
22: 1998 - Tramps, NYC: Hellcat Records recording artist showcase Hepcat, Slackers, Gadjits
22: 1996 - Sgt. Scagnetti (the CT SKA band, not Tom Sizemore) 114 W. Green Street, Ithaca
21: 2014 - 5Head Dinosaur BBQ Rochester 10pm
21: 1981 - Guns For Hire: Phil Sutcliffe reviews the 2nd Selecter LP Celebrate The Bullet (out 2/27) pg. 39 in this week's SOUNDS
20: 2004 - Salut Co. (BCN) Tribute to L. Aitken: D. Alcapone/ Sister Audrey/ Earl Sixteen/ Gaz Mayall/ Granadians/ Skarlatines/ Lord Kaya
18: 2014 - Greg Kot tries to figure it out
17: 2014 - R.I.P. Robert Edward Casale Jr. AKA Bob 2 (Devo), aged 61
17: 2014 - It is reported Amy Winehouse's earnings quadruple after her death in 2011
17: 2008 - Po Tragna meets the wedding D.J.?!
17: 1996 - Crawdaddy? WITR FM Lil' Davey loans WVBR FM IthaSka radio some of his prized vinyl! Prince Buster, Trojans + on playlist tonite
15: 2014 - SUSAN CADOGAN w/ The Drastics and Studio One ska/reggae legend Charlie Organaire at Mayne Stage Chicago IL
14: 2014 - 'Hunger Moon' AKA 'Snow Moon' turns full phase at 6:53 PM EST (2353 GMT) when it is exactly opposite the sun in the sky
14: 1986 - Floyd Lloyd Seivright and Potato 5 meet Laurel Aitken to record the 3 tracks released by Gaz 'Gary Vincent' Mayall on GAZCD001
12: 2014 - the woman who broke her skull and collarbone when Angelo Moore dived from a Philadelphia stage has been awarded $1.4M
12: 1998 - Scofflaws, Pilfers at Third Rail Cortland NY
11: 2014 - tumbleweed, tumbleweed, tumbleweed, the Toasters to play KRESS ULTRALOUNGE in Yuma, AZ tonight
11: 1995 - Miggedys HBB Rochester/ meanwhile Scofflaws live at New York Avenue, Huntington LINY
10: 2005 - Trojans' Wicked And Wild +2 more from FYE Eastview cutout room
10: 1996 - Dance Hall Crashers (Lockjaw tour) at Blind Pig in Ann Arbor MI
9: 2002 - Planet Smashers Milestones 170 East Ave
9: 1980 - Record Mirror Pauline Black/ Madness/ ACDC/ STYX/ Rats. New Musical Express has Specials in USA, Georgie Fame timewarp
9: 1979 - UB40 plays its first show; a birthday party
9: 1964 - Beatles to USA television; some say the second half of the 20th century starts here
9: 1928 - Frank Frazetta born in Brooklyn
8: 2014 - R.I.P. Greg Sullivan, aged 67. NRHS train enthusiast and Penny Arcade founder (and owner 1973-2K)
8: 1990 - Unicorn Records release PHZA-60 is 'FRANKENSKA'
7: 2014 - Roddy Radiation Byers announces to Coventry Telegraph news of his departure
6: 2014 - Jeopardy #6769: a British interjection, or a genre of skinhead rock for $1200
6: 2014 - Beat Brigade, The Ladrones, Rude Boy George, Sweet Lucy at the Grand Victory Brooklyn. 7pm Come out and hang with us!
6: 1996 - The Scofflaws live at New York Avenue, Huntington LINY
6: 1971 - Jerry Reed performs Amos Moses on American Bandstand
5: 2006 - Adam Turman predicts OMB album art on gigposter for Toasters WBT, GJG at Triple Rock Social Club MPLS MN, $12 All Ages 5pm
5: 1994 - Fishbone w/ guests Mighty Bosstones at Bayou City Theatre, Houston TX - official silkscreen print by Derek Hess is limited to 200
4: 2014 - Les Claypool's Duo De Twang Four Foot Shack out
4: 2004 - theFacebook founded by M. Zuckerberg with his college roommates at Harvard U.
3: 2014 - R.I.P. Bunny Rugs, aged 65
3: 1968 - Top Pops #15 Rare UK Music Paper Freakbeat Psych Mod Prince Buster Captain Beefheart (78,947 copies)
2: 2014 - R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman, aged 46
2: 2014 - Superb Owl XLVIII Ska Night: Toasters, Monkey, +3 more at the legendary Berkeley CA punk club 924 GILMAN ST.
2: 2004 - out of Favor Street basement cobweb, Destined for Mispronunciation, that ill-fated 2nd Miggedys CD (MR103) sees the light of day
Feb 1998 - Hepcat cover Mean Street Vol. VIII #8 by Patrick Green. Also stuff about LTJ and AAA inside
January 2014
31: 1984 - New Musical Express MADNESS Six Go Mad in Poland
30: 2014 - R.I.P. Arthur Rankin Jr., aged 89
30: 1998 - Scofflaws, Bim Skala Bim, Metro Stylee at Wetlands NYC
29: 2006 - OYER? recent Dom Bold sighting near Alfred NY is a good example why die-cut vinyl should never be applied to wooden surface...
28: 2006 - yes I'm a member of the [alfred.edu] Knight Club. All Ages Ticket Price Free show Doors open 9:30P Ska Brawl Package Go Jimmy Go
27: 2001 - Bim Skala Bim and special guests at Gray Cage! Bates College Lewiston, ME
27: 1996 - Yolk at Milestones 50 East Ave, and six miles walk home in the snow
27: 1990 - Laurel Aitken is a hardy perennial on page 30 of this week's New Musical Express (Ian McCann Goin' Rocksteady) Hardy har har
26: 2014 - Hey Radio DJ's, Press, Zines, Writers, etc....the big 600 pc promo mailing for Bim's new Chet's Last Call is finally going out today
25: 2014 - The Spirit Of Ska – Silver Jubilee Edition record release party at the Berlin Ska City Festival, Germany
24: 2014 - "Avenues & Alleyways" opening (DJ for the event Shepard Fairey?!) Valet is available too, 1331 West Sunset Blvd LA CA
25: 2001 - stub from City of Ithaca parking garage
24: 2001 - Vic Rice Octet & The Bluebeats at Meow Mix, it's recorded
23: 2014 - Reggae in the Grass
23: 1999 - Toasters w/Mexican Cession + Split Second at Showplace Theatre 1063 Grant St. Buffalo NY
23: 1989 - Not Half as Hard as a Doc Marten Boot by Kate Muir published in The Independent
22: 2014 - ReadJunk introduces Rude Boy George
21: 2013 - Toasters w/ Mrs. Skannotto +2, Dubland Underground Rochester
19: 2014 - National Popcorn Day!
19: 1980 - Record Mirror does The Beat, Pretenders, Clash, Kate Bush
16: 2014 - Toasters '14 World Tour kickoff (Rochester); it all starts at the Bug Jar w/ Mrs. Skannotto +2 more, $10, 18+
15: 1995 - VooDoo Glow Skulls, DHC, +2 at Palace in Hollywood CA sells out. Hand-pulled Matt Getz silkscreen is limited to 310 copies
14: 2014 - Mustard Plug KickStarter to fund the recording of a new album Can't Contain It, is released by No Idea Records today
14: 2000 - Allstonians U of R Coffeehouse, it's recorded; flyer by Liz
10: 2014 - R.I.P. Eric Lawson, 72 (COPD, San Luis Obispo). See the Toasters track "Marlboro Man" for more detail
8: 1990 - Skankin Pickle at Slim's 333 Eleventh St, SF CA - All Ages, no cover, 9pm PST
5: 2001 - NYSJE and King Django at Knitting Factory Leonard St

3: 2014 - 20 Year Anniv Celebration of Jump Up Records' American Ska-thic compilation 6 bands + DJ Chuck Wren at the Metro, Chicago IL $15
Jan 2005 - Jimmy Page, Joe Massot and Me? HP8 review appears in this month's Record Collector
Jan 2002 - MOJO #98 has a sizeable Specials article, wherein Alexis Petridis describes their SNL performance as akin to Ed Sullivan's Beatles
Jan 2000 - Do The Dog #16 has Aussie stalwarts The Porkers

December
29: 1990 - King Apparatus live at Lee's Palace, Toronto ON Canada, it's recorded
29: 1964 - XMAS BONANZA featuring Tommy McCook and The Skatalites, at the Astor Theatre, Spanish Town JA $7 adults, $4 kids
28: 2013 - Skankin’ Round The Xmas Tree w/ Freddie Notes +5 at Köln Burgerhaus Kalk
28: 2009 - BossTones' HomeTown throwdown #12. Bim Skala Bim reunion & Pietasters support HOB Boston
27: 1997 - Skankin' Round The Xmas Tree w/ Hepcat, Intensified, Malarians, Spicy Roots at Köln Burgerhaus Kalk
26: 1997 - Skankin' Round The Xmas Tree w/ Laurel Aitken, Skarface, Dr. Calypso + more at Köln Burgerhaus Kalk
26: 1996 - Studio One/ Heartbeat's ©1991 Ska Bonanza sixties ska 2CD from Media Play #8254 Ridgemont
25: 2013 - Merry Christmas baby!
21: 2013 - 25 years since thirty-five Syracuse University students killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103
21: 2013 - 25 years since London Int'l Ska Fest crushed beercans at the Brixton Fridge - it's recorded for longplay vinyl
20: 2013 - Baked a la Ska (Christmas knees up) w/ DJs Martin the Mod and Coops, Manchester UK
20: 2009 - Reggae and African Beat magazine folds after 28 years by C.C. Smith, Minister of Information Glendale CA
17: 2013 - Mike Mills (R.E.M. bassist) is 55
17: 2000 - obituary of Moon Ska NYC posted on line
17: 1996 - BC Oster engineers the Professionals live on Lil Davey's WITR 89.7 FM Ska on my Radio 10pm
16: 2013 - 180gm Germans?
16: 1990 - R.I.P. Donat Roy 'Jackie' Mittoo, aged 42
16: 1969 - Gloria Emerson “British Youth's Latest Turn: The Skinhead.” pg. 12, The New York Times
15: 2001 - Long Island Ska Hootenanny AIDS charity featuring Toasters, Scofflaws, w/ Blackouts +10 more bands
15: 1996 - Professionals +2 Sunday Matinee Tea House Art Gallery
15: 1990 - Michelob Concert Series: Special Beat & The Toasters at The Ritz 254 W 54th St (old Studio 54) 16+ 8pm $18.50
15: 1966 - Walt Disney dies of lung cancer, aged 65
14: 2013 - 5Head holiday show at Sticky Lips II, also Marco OTB's Best of 2013
13: 2000 - R.I.P. Bob Duke (a Bug Jar founder) in car crash Ireland
12: 2003 - R.I.P. Unkl Roger McCall, (longtime WCMF FM nightshift) in a robbery
12: 1989 - Unicorn Records LP releases: Skaos record and PHZA-53 Laurel Aitken – It's Too Late: Personal Selections 1961-1984
12: 1980 - Ivan meets G.I. Joe/ at Version City? Clash holiday release Sandinista! triple as 3 pizzas in one box
11: 1964 - R.I.P. Sam Cooke, aged 33
9: 2013 - SMRSLT has Millie and her Boyfriends today
9: 1983 - illegal-teacup.za
7: 2013 - Electric Avenue at Characters NYC w/King Django, Rude Boy George, The Royal Swindle + selecter Steve on the decks
6: 2013 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat, The Pinstripes (Cincinatti) Iron Works 49 Illinois St Buffalo, NY 8PM $22.50 adv/ $25 DOS
5: 2013 - R.I.P. Nelson Mandela, aged 95; see that SKAOS tune for more detail
4: 2003 - Rancid Water St, their first time since 3/31/96
3: 2010 - Thunder Body CD release party w/ Mosiac Foundation + Sophistafunk $10, 16+ Water St Music Hall
2: 2013 - R.I.P. Junior Murvin, aged 67
Dec 2009: The WORD magazine #82 The Specials Madness Ska Chris Evans Jo Brand
Dec 1992: The Beat Vol. 11 #6 w/ Desmond Dekker and baked beans for breakfast – also our Rochester DJs get a mention inside!
Dec 1987: Jerome Wilson reviews SKABOOM! in this month's issue of OPTION
November
29: 2013 - 10:25 PM GMT during Esperanza's set, fatalities at Clutha Pub (Glasgow) when a police helicopter crashes through the roof
27: 2013 - HP7 #062/100 listed for sale online
27: 2005 - mailorder ska buying capabilites explode
27: 1995 - purchase ticket to U of R for Dec 3rd
26: 2013 - return of Maroon Town
25: 2013 - Thanks Brandt Sean Abner Memorial, NYC
24: 2003 - Primus' Tour de Fromage Landmark Theatre Syracuse
24: 1999 - Mephiskapheles (live in Cleveland, Ohio) is recorded/ 18 tracks
10: 2013 - SMRSLT has a free Dave & Ansel Collins 45 from WMCR AM seventies Oneida NY
10: 1996 - Moon Ska NYC Skarmageddon III submissions deadline
9: 2013 - SMRSLT has the PIONEERS
8: 2013 - Northern Soul turns 40?!
6: 2013 - brand new Bim Skala Bim CD, Chet's Last Call lands in our mailbox!
5: 2007 - RHODA DAKAR CLEANING IN ANOTHER WOMAN'S KITCHEN available today from Moon Ska World UK
4: 1999 - Ronan O'Donnell (aka Dublinsax) and Gangsters live video, it's recorded PAL format
November 2012: Vive Le Rock #9 w/ Madness & The Damned
October
31: 2013 - Four hundred scary ska songs!
31: 2003 - Halloween Friday w/ Pietasters, (Brandon Sausner) Molotov Cocktail Inc., Trailer Park Mafia +1 at Continental - Buffalo, NY 16+
31: 1996 - Halloween fancy dress party w/ Rico + Band at Gaz's Rockin' Blues, London
31: 1995 - Radical Records' Oi/Skampilation #2: Skalloween at Coney Island High; select audio will be released on CD 10/29/96
31: 1995 - The Articles record Romanov's Bones 7" for Dave Kirchgessner's Dakishi Clout label
30: 1995 - The Articles record Romanov's Bones 7" b/w Black Eyes and Tijuana Toad at Tempermill in Ferndale MI
30: 1989 - (All ages) Ska Lo Ween Sunday at the Cat Club NYC: NY Citizens and the Panic! Doors 8pm/ show at 11pm
30: 1981 - Funboys split from Dammers' camp is made official
27: 1996 - Allstonians final draft (word .doc) for HP3
27: 1994 - HI-BOP SKA Skatalites The 30th Anniversary Recording! Label: SHANACHIE Format: CD out today
27: 1984 - orange postcards claim Toasters at CBGB 1AM. Their Beat Up 7" is $3 out now on Icebear Records
26: 1996 - Moon Stomp Tour '96 Toasters Metro Chicago DJ Chuck Wren
24: 1997 - GWAR/ Misfits/ Mephiskapheles/ +1 at Roseland Ballroom NYC 7pm $17
23: 1999 - it took 3 years but Fritz makes good on the Showplace's "All Ages Local Ska-Punk Lineup" marquee, spoken of 10/23/96
22: 2013 - Big D & The Kid's Table to Waiting Room Buffalo NY
22: 1994 - Kendall sez "Chocolate pudding will only cost you a dollar"
22: 1991 - Let's Go Bowling full-length CD and chromium cassette on Moon Records 027
22: 1938 - Chester Carlson made his first xerographic copy in a rented second story room in Queens!
20: 2013 - It's a Ska World After All™! 3rd annual Ska day at Disneyland, 1313 Harbor Boulevard Anaheim 12-11pm
20: 1989 - PHZA-44 compilation of all French Ska bands, out on Unicorn Records
20: 1979 - "Rudies in a Rut" The Specials LP reviewed in Sounds
19: 2013 - the next Electric Avenue show (Scofflaws, Across the Aisle, Rude Boy George) at Characters NYC 243 W 54th St $8/18+
18: 2013 - Green Room Rockers at Monty's Krown in Rochester tonight! We play in 30 min come on out!
18: 2013 - SKAMOUTH '13 (Oct 18-21) at 5 star VAUXHALL HOLIDAY PARK at GREAT YARMOUTH in Norfolk UK
17: 2002 - Mr. Rico turns 68, just in time for the Blackouts to drink the Kool Aid acid green benefit showprint
17: 1967 - R.I.P. Don Holleder
15: 2013 - ten years since Erica Curtis disclosed STOP 176
14: 2013 - what a wonderful way to spend a Monday; play the Scofflaws' non-album track Christopher Columbus for more detail
14: 1967 - Tizano Ansaldi later clips today's article re: Laurel Aitken in the UK paper
13: 2006 - Pietasters Milestones by twitch
13: 1997 - Selecter Rochester
11: 2012 - Ebay gets new logo
11: 1996 - Let's Go Bowling/ Cherry Poppin Daddies/ Reel Big Fish/ Greenhouse/ DJ Chuck Wren/ Metro Chicago IL
11: 1994 - Selecter w/ Skapone at Cubby Bear 1059 W. Addison Street Chicago IL
11: 1985 - On yer bike! 2pm Friday Mod rally from Scooterville (Anaheim, CA) to Fenders (LBC) for an 8-14 band gig
10: 2013 - R.I.P. Scott Carpenter aged 88. Play Mark Foggo's 1995 "Not Scott" for more detail.
9: 1998 - RBF/ Pilfers/ Spring Heeled Jack R.I.T. Clark Gymnasium
9: 1991 - Murphy's Law/ BossTones/ Downside at 701 First Ave N. Minneapolis MN doors 7, show 8pm
8: 2013 - discover firsthand that HP's 1999 review of DLTBGYD made it into their new 15th Anniversary 2LP art!
7: 2013 - Madness re-release their 1981 film Take It Or Leave It
7: 2003 - Rochester NY garbage truck scandal in supermarket tabloid Weekly World News
7: 1997 - "Welcome to the darkest corner of our mind..."
7: 1995 - Dance Hall Crashers AFTER DARK 1130 N. Nimitz Highway Honolulu HI $15.50
7: 1994 - Specials /Let's Go Bowling/ Pacers/ WNUR DJ Chuck Wren/ 18+ Cabaret Metro. Steve Hockensmith Chicago Tribune
7: 1993 - The Regulators at Gaz's
6: 2001 - Millie Small turns 54, also Toasters at new Haunt in Ithaca
6: 1994 - BossTones Pictures To Prove It on Jon Stewart Show (then MTV)
5: 2013 - Mephiskapheles w/ Inspecter 7 in Philly PA; for some reason are hawking 16 year old MR-555 postcards for $1
4: 1994 - Alicia Silverstone turns 18. As if. also BossTones' 4th full length is in shops today
2: 2013 - Who Do Voo Doo We Do: VGS, Toasters +2 at Waiting Room Buffalo NY tix $15-17 DOS/ Justin Lloyd's in the crowd too!
1: 1997 - LTJ recorded at WSMH Rochester by Universal Buzz Radio = Live From Uranus limited ed. Japanese CD incl OBI + Kanji lyric sheet!
1: 1994 - Miggedys perform at their Pittsford Mendon High talent show/ Justin Lloyd's in the crowd too!
Oct 1996 - this month's Moon Skazette details Moonstomp Tour, also talks heavily about the Miggedys
Oct 1993 - The Shack international ska compilation released by BiB for the USA (Lol Dojo released it 9/93 in UK)
September
30: 2013 - SoulJazz Records UK Studio One Ska Fever SJRCD271 due out today
29: 2013 - Les Claypool at 50! also Toasters Lost Horizon Erie Boulevard Syracuse NY
29: 2002 - 35mm traffic on the way to Naples Grape Festival
29: 1995 - BOSSTONES AFTER DARK 1130 N. Nimitz Highway Honolulu HI $15.50
29: 1990 - Riverdale MD Skunks' copyright first demo tape, but it's never released
29: 1980 - Toots makes an LP in one day
28: 2013 - Derrick Harriott in Chicago as part of Jump Up Records' festivites
28: 2013 - Pepper Westcott Theater Syracuse NY
28: 2012 - Erin Bardwell Collective's Bringing The Hope released (Swindon UK)
28: 2003 - crklepad's car crash in Manlius NY 1pm
28: 1995 - Skatalites at Metronome, Burlington VT – 120 min. soundboard it's recorded
28: 1988 - GAZ003 The Spirit of Adventure out in Japan
28: 1964 - Millie Small scheduled to spend three days filming a musical in Germany
27: 2008 - Negative Image Scooter Club rally in Webster Park campground, 14580 USA
26: 1985 - Laurel Aitken at Gaz's Rockin' Blues SoHo
26: 1981 - Clash w/ The Beat at Le Palace presente au Theatre Mogador, Paris, France
25: 1987 - Ace Face In The Crowd (The Jam) in Goldmine Magazine VOL. 13 NO. 20 ISSUE 187
25: 1971 - Desmond crashed in on Boss who kept him waiting - and became a star! Reggae Roundup w/ Dekker by Rob Randall in this NME
24: 2005 - cut this
24: 2000 - Bosstones & Flogging Molly at Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR
23: 2000 - Bim Skala Bim release their Krinkle CD
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim Rochester
22: 1995 - FISHBONE AFTER DARK 1130 N. Nimitz Highway Honolulu HI $16.50
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian CE Oster, aged 30; exactly ten years since his beloved Pilfers' Chawalaleng out
21: 1993 - Moon MRO13 CD (re)release of Skaboom! is still in the works due to problems locating original artwork; thanks for your patience
18: 2013 - On this harvest moon!
17: 2013 - The Selecter / Pinstripes fall tour in Waterloo ON $32 CND
17: 1990 - Skatalites at World Financial Center, NYC – 45 min. soundboard it's recorded
16: 2013 - The Roots and E. Costello take the stage at Brooklyn Bowl for a live performance of their collaborative LP, Wise Up Ghost
16: 2000 - R.J. Reynolds Salem cigarettes presents Toots & Maytals w/ Stone Love Movement: free admission, WSMH Rochester NY
13: 2013 - R.I.P. Brandt Sean Abner, aged 43
13: 1989 - Skatalites at Propect Park, Brooklyn NY – 90 min. soundboard it's recorded
12: 2013 - R.I.P. Ray Dolby, aged 80
12: 1993 - Skatalites at Melkweg, Amsterdam NL – 30 min. soundboard it's recorded
12: 1977 - R.I.P. Steve Bantu Biko, aged 30
12: 1962 - we choose to GO TO THE MOON
9: 1991 - "We're prostitutes; we'll do anything" Mr. Bungle debut CD on Warner Bros. out today
8: 2011 - Too afraid to ask? after the show, Kevin Linear shows up at Other Side Cafe, says doorman's 10:07pm txt msg
8: 2005 - Dub Is A Weapon O'Callaghaans Rochester
8: 2000 - 3M SCOTCH® cello tape is 70 years old today, also conduct RH00
7: 2013 - Ska Brewing Durango, CO celebrates it's 18th Anniversary 3-8p, English Beat w/ 2Tone Lizard Kings $30 gets unlimited tastings
7: 1995 - Alicia Silverstone on the cover of the Rolling Stone #716 - see the Spring Heeled Jack song for more detail
6: 1997 - Montreal Ska-Kings Return: Planet Smashers live Mercury Theatre Military Rd Buffalo NY +3, 6pm $5
6: 1993 - AP reports Barney Bashers start a support group
6: 1983 - Gwen meets Gordie for the first time; Don't you talk to Billy Idol that way!
5: 1991 - Rolling Stone #612 (Fall Fashion '91) has that Converse Chuck Taylor sneaker ad w/ a young Dicky BossTone, page 43
5: 1964 - Millie Small flies to America for a tour until end of the month
4: 1999 - Skatalites at FESTIVAL NANTES, France – 45 min soundboard it's recorded
4: 1997 - BossTones perform hitsong The Impression That I Get on MTV VMA's
3: 1990 - Skatalites at RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD (20 min. video is later broadcast on 31 March '91 on BBC)
2: 1989 - Ska Train (fashion spread only) in this week's Record Mirror
1: 2004 - This Is A Modern Life: The 1980s London Mod Scene (Mod Chronicles) 1st edition paperback by Enamel Verguren
1: 1997 - Skatalites at Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA – 75min video/ DAT soundboard
1: 1979 - 2Tone in the NME today
Sep 2012 - MOJO #226 International Ska Wars with Ian Harrison and rhythm kings The English Beat; also Maytals and Ray Davies!
Sep 2002 - Scoot Quarterly Bad Manners' autographed LP giveaway!
Sep 1989 - Bob Guccione Jr., Jen Houlton & the Int'l State of Ska: Toasters USA plus Maroon Town UK in SPIN Magazine, Vol. 5 #6

August
30: 1993 - Dicky & Vegas (Bosstones) interview on MTV's 120 Minutes, remember 120 Minutes?
29: 2005 - Gaz's Rockin' Blues on ACE Records compact disc format (This is an update of his 1980 compilation L.P. of same name)
27: 1983 - NME MUSIC PAPER 27 AUG 1983 THE BEAT RANKING ROGER DAVE WAKELING SKA
25: 2009 - Kepi Ghoulie/ Vic Ruggiero split The New Dark Ages Asian Man 185 out
25: 2000 - Jimmy M. Marconi and Brian CE Oster in the same room!?
23: 1997 - UPS strike? the fat man sent me (to Medford, MA)
23: 1996 - Too Hectic, Miggedys, Inspecter 7 at Haunt Ithaca. 9pm $5
21: 1979 - Veronica Blake presents SPECIALS / JOHN COOPER-CLARKE/ LK JOHNSON / SELECTOR [sic] at Hammersmith Palais, £3
20: 2013 - tonight's full moon is not just a blue moon – it's also the Full Sturgeon Moon, Full Red Moon, Green Corn Moon + Grain Moon!
19: 1985 - Stiff Records/ MCA Wild Child out today
18: 2013 - Provincetown II Cruise: Bim Skala Bim (CD release party), Superska, Dion Knibb, Ken Stewart 2pm, 21+, $25
18: 1994 - Stella's award is decided, because it's too hot!
17: 1989 - Laurel Aitken 30th Anniversary Concert (at Gaz's Rockin' Blues SoHo) is recorded for the only Unicorn video, PHZV-51
16: 2013 - Ranking Roger - Muscle Ska Cat. No. TU-001/REASON-014 Format: 7” limited 500 hand-numbered black vinyl
16: 2013 - Folkestone Ska Splash '13 is only £40 for another amazing three day weekend!
16: 2003 - Mass Hysteria, Miasmics, Amy Ryan & Operatives at Harmony House / the release of HP8
16: 1998 - C. Murray and Jeffrey R. Contray spotted at Wetlands
16: 1996 - Miggedys +4 Irving Plaza NYC, 9pm $12/$15 DOS
16: 1980 - this week's NME cover is Ranking Roger + Lionel 'Saxa' Martin
16: 1977 - The King is dead
15: 1993 - tonight's Skalapalooza in Trenton NJ is Bigger Thomas/ Dance Hall Crashers/ Mephiskapheles/ Skunks
14: 2003 - Northeast USA powergrid down 4pm: BLACKOUT!
14: 1998 - Toasters Popkomm Fest 50825 Köln, Cologne Germany
14: 1986 - N.Y. Beat Hit and Run record release party at the Cat Club NYC. $10/ show 10:30pm, Toasters go on 1am
12: 1999 - Dr. O's 1979 Vespa P200 might be for sale again, $1250 USD; ask the WXXI DJ, no bodywork needed
10: 2013 - Allstonians, Riki Rocksteady & The Arraignments TDIF 'zine release party at McGann's Pub, Boston MA
10: 2000 - Dave Hillyard brings his Rocksteady 7 to Rochester NY. They'll return 3/26/03
10: 1999 - Ken Boothe A Man and His Hits (Studio One, 1970) reissued on Heartbeat CD + extras
9: 2001 - Norman Oklahoma private function wedding
9: 1992 - first Madstock Finsbury Park London, it's recorded
8: 1992 - first Madstock Finsbury Park London, it's recorded
8: 1998 - Skatalites w/ Spider Nick & Maddogs at Knitting Factory
8: 1988 - Deltones, the girl group of ex-Bodysnatchers and Belle Stars, record their only LP in France [Boucherie Production FR]
7: 2007 - ORESKABAND-SELF TITLED-RARE ADVANCE PROMO CD-2007-J POP-Female Japanese Ska (USA release)
7: 1983 - The Police, The Fixx and Flock of Seagulls play in our neighborhood 8pm $15 (Fritz shows up years later)
6: 1990 - It's called boxer shorts: NY Citizens' Stranger Things Have Happened LP MRE020 out thru the Cartel
5: 2013 - she collects Unicorns too: What's up with Wordgirl week on PBS starts [Weekend in L.A.]
5: 2006 - HPSKA.COM ten year shirts get screened
3: 1997 - sweet diecut handbills for Specials MKII at Boston's in Tempe, AZ
August 2003 - Westbound Train takes the biscuit with Chuck, Buck and J.R. Griffin pages 34 + 36 of AP#181
August 1993 - Man on the Moon? Bucket speaks to
Skinhead Times #11

July
31: 1965 - Drinkin' beer for breakfast makes the whole day painless: Millie Small details her morning Guinness in today's Record Mirror
30: 1993 - Brett Milano "Mash I'tup again" Bim Skala Bim lead an international revival (this week's Boston Phoenix cover)! Preorder 2 new 2013 albums HERE
29: 1995 - Grounds-Keeper Willy trio headline at Java Cows coffeehouse, Canandiagua NY (after Miggedys ditch)
28: 1998 - Specials, Rancid + warped tour stop Buffalo
27: 2003 - 2.0MP digital camera is a Kodak CX4230
27: 2002 - Toasters at Migs Classic Roxx Walden Ave Buffalo / Bim at Harborfest Oswego
26: 1996 - Rancid, Dance Hall Crashers + warped tour stop Buffalo
26: 1980 - Selecter pull out of 2Tone label in order to take risks again according to this week's Sounds
25: 2013 - DJ '2Tone Ted' Morris joins club 67
24: 2004 - road trip to Ashland OH then on to Chuck W. Jump Up Records' 10th anniv weekend, Chicagoland
24: 2000 - Before they were slackers they were The Nods (Special Potatoe)
24: 1998 - $156.55 USPS money order from 14534 to 10276 (mailorder Hotknives, Ngobos, Foggos, Skunks, NYSJE, Strapped Live, ? etc.)
23: 2000 - Pilfers +3, Showplace Theatre 7pm it's videocorded
22: 2013 - MAN FROM WAREIKA 1977 VINYL REISSUE LP UNIVERSAL MUSIC DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE NO. 5342968 OUT NOW
21: 1997 - Hepcat, Professionals + warped tour stop Buffalo
21: 1996 - Y. Watanabe, Wetlands, and the birth of RimShot! e-zine?
20: 2013 - Slackers' annual booze cruise NYC
20: 2013 - Bosstones free on the Boston Common; also Mash it Up Fest at Middle East in Cambridge!
20: 2003 - 1st real life OBEY sticker via lamppost near Continental ...later to be used on HP8backcover; Body Count's in the house!
20: 1969 - weer on a SPACE RACE baby
19: 2013 - Roddy Radiation w/ Pandemics at Electric Avenue/ Characters NYC... DJ sets by Duff Steve + Marco on the Decks
18: 2013 - Nelson Mandela Day, play SKAOS' 1988 'South African Struggle' for more detail; also Alex Désert's 45
17: 1997 - Chicago Tribune Tempo section has "SKA SKA SKA – underground sound wave crashes top of charts" by Greg Kot
17: 1993 - Midwest Ska Fest '93: more than 1,000 people turn up to see Gangster Fun, Skapone, Mustard Plug +3! in Chicago
17: 1983 - Lord Tanamo & Skatalites' Big Trombone recorded (Blue Monk Jazz Gallery reunion, go you!)
16: 1995 - Special Beat tee? our first and only non-radio interaction with Lil' Davey, sometime WITR 89.7 FM ska guy 1993-98
15: 2013 - Remember that night? It seems so clear, now he's back and I'm glad he's here [for $1000]
15: 2010 - Shiv Hurrah? Jimmy Cliff free at Party In the Parkinglot Rochester
15: 1996 - All Skanadian Club Vol. #2 release party Toronto; we get it 9/6/97 Mercury Theatre instead
15: 1994 - Toasters 10th anniversary show is Dub 56 release party w/ Murphy's Law, Mephiskapheles at Irving Plaza NYC
13: 2001 - Pilfers break up (numerous reunions to follow)
13: 1997 - CNY Ska Fest // Too Hectic last show // at Chuck's Syracuse is EST, JTBS, Professionals +2 more; sweet poster drawn by E. Mattice
13: 1992 - Gator Beverage? What would later become Less Than Jake began today
12: 1998 - Bosstones H.O.R.D.E. Fest at Riverport Ampitheater (STL MO)
11: 2013 - John Brown's Body, SKATALITES, Mosaic Foundation $2 at Party In the Parkinglot Rochester
11: 2013 - Specials House of Blues 15 Lansdowne Street Boston
10: 1998 - Toasters +tba showcase at Wetlands
9: 2013 - 14th Annual Victoria Ska Fest runs four days!
9: 2002 - A Jackknife to a Swan is Bosstones #7, out on SideOneDummy Records
8: 2002 - Bosstones perform "You Gotta Go" live on the Craig Kilbourn Show
8: 1995 - Bosstones Lollapalooza Fiddlers Green Denver CO
6: 1987 - Mostly Mods? various artists compilation Unicorn 2: Modern Times LP out
4: 1996 - Spider Nick & Maddogs' early demos, aka Independence Day Sessions
3: 1978 - Madness' fourth ever gig is at William Ellis Secondary School
1: 2013 - 50 years since Zone Improvement Plan codes specify the entire USA into numeric delivery areas
July 1996 - Headdie Ocampo (Stubborn All-Stars) gets schooled by beat master Lloyd Knibb on front cover of Django's Black & White #3
July 1982 - Bad Manners' My Girl Lollipop, Portrait 4R9-05099 & produced by Roger Lomas, in UK charts
June
28: 1998 - Bim Skala Bim headline Love & Affection CD release party (Wetlands)
28: 1997 - SKATURDAY airs on MTV (Music Television) in the States, Carson Daly as host
28: 1969 - Dekker to stay on in Britain: Cancels his American tour to promote his next single "IT MEK" in United Kingdom
27: 1999 - Toasters 20th Anniversary reunion show at Wetlands w/ Unity Two and more 4pm, it's recorded
24: 2002 - Adjusters' Storm Warning anthology out on GRO-CD058 today
23: 2013 - Strawberry supermoon 7:33 AM EST, also Dave Hillyard California release party in Hollywood
22: 2013 - Dave Hillyard California release party in Santa Ana, also Jimmy Kimmel Live announcer Dicky turns 49
22: 2000 - $181 Jump Up imports?!
21: 2012 - First disc by The Sabaudians out, featuring Sheldon Gregg (NYSJE) w/ members of Giuliano Palma & The Bluebeaters
21: 1999 - Stubborn Records out with Vic Rice at Version City and Roots Branch & Stem Vol. 2 today
21: 1985 - The Untouchables are MODS (at Glastonbury Campaign for ND Festival Jun 21-23 it's recorded for play on the BBC)
20: 2008 - Skatalites free East & Alexander XRIJF
20: 2002 - Blackouts garden party on Eastman House Lawn 14607; admission steep
20: 2000 - Toots & the Maytals WSMH Rochester
19: 2013 - Reggae Steady Ska on the Return of BIM!
19: 1997 - couple weeks after their Rochester gig, Heidi M. Endo sends Moon Records a rough demo tape of Mephiskapheles' 2nd CD
17: 2002 - Peeping Toms (ex-Malarians) self-titled on GRO-059 CD today
16: 2013 - SKA in the Harbor w/ Westbound Train & Toasters all aboard cruise boat in Boston MA
16: 1997 - Let's Ska at the Ski Lodge: MassConcerts press release announces New England Ska Fest 8/23 at a resort in Westford MA
16: 1986 - Unicorn Records begins!
15: 2013 - Dirty Reggae Party #22 w/ Basque dub legend FERMIN MUGURUZA (ex-Kortatu) + more in Brooklyn
15: 2007 - Toots & the Maytals XRIJF East & Alexander free show
15: 1978 - Elvis Costello and the Attractions live at WDR Studio-L in Cologne
14: 2013 - Man of Steel? SCOOTER RALLY & SKA FESTIVAL WEEKENDER
14: 2003 - MM BossTones/ Pietasters/ VooDoo Glowskulls/ Catch 22 openair High Falls Festival site? Thanks Pete Spaker!
14: 1980 - Record Mirror has Peter Gabriel, Numan, Klark Kent, Selecter, Rush
13: 2013 - Malcolm McDowell is 70
13: 1997 - Bim Skala Bim/ Adjusters/ Exceptions/ Executives & DJ Chuck Wren at Metro Chicago
12: 2013 - DuffGuide's got the New York Fever again!
12: 1984 - Madness meet The Young Ones
11: 1998 - Spider Nick & Maddogs win "best ska recording" Long Island Music Awards
10: 2004 - R.I.P. Ray Charles, aged 73
10: 1996 - MR-PR02/ MR083, Toasters Hard Band For Dead promos go out to fanzines and college radio
9: 2013 - Primus free N. Tonawanda NY
8: 1999 - The Wailers Destiny: Rare Ska Sides From Studio One (CD New) label: UMGD/ROUNDER
8: 1995 - Toasters Murphy's Law Let's Go Bowling Troubadour West Hollywood CA
8: 1979 - Specials at Nashville (London)
7: 2003 - City News previews Mass. Hysteria show at Harmony House in Webster; they'll be back August 16
7: 2000 - imagine Wyclef in '88 with this ska-soaked track
6: 2001 - Celtic music via disposable Fuji camera
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles live in Rochester / the release of HP4
4: 1997 - NYSJE & Adjusters (Politics of Style release party) at HOB Chicago 11pm, 18+
3: 2003 - "What I like most about you is your girlfriend it's true" Planet Smashers' Mighty out on Stomp /Union 2112 today
3: 1998 - premiere issue of Rude International shipped
3: 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots begin
1: 1994 - Stomp records? Arsenals (Toronto ON) debut out on MR044 today
1: 2003 - Adjusters' Otis Redding Will Save America released on Grover.de
1: 2013 - Apple Stomp Day 2: Slackers/ SHJ/ MU330/ Mephiskapheles/ Pietasters/ Scofflaws/ WBT/ Thumper/ Bigger Thomas Irving Plaza
June 2008 - MOJO #175 Prince Buster & Paul Weller
June 2006 - paper 'zine from Connecticut? Upbeat Skazine #2 has Aggrolites, Johnny Too Bad, Coolie Ranx, LTJ and more
June 2004 - Ska In The World #11 Go Jimmy Go
June 1997 - Guitar World feature Ska Mania! w/ Bosstones/ RBF/ Toasters
June 1995 - 737 issue #5 Superman
June 1991 - Reggae Calendar International newspaper #5 by Barham Bowers
June 1990 - Reggae Calendar International newspaper #4 w/ Mighty Sparrow
June 1985 - Go Go Modzine #3 30p Ex Mods Small Faces Paul Weller Untouchables Jam
June 1979 - Nick Kimberley, Cecil Campbell & Cassius Clay in the NME
May
31: 2013 - Apple Stomp Day 1: Suicide Machines/ Pilfers/ Murphy’s Law/ Metro Stylee/ Inspecter 7/ + more at Irving Plaza NYC
30: 2013 - Toots & The Maytals 50th Anniversary Tour at State Theater of Ithaca. 8PM $30 & up --- but possibly cancelled?
29: 2009 - the final 3 Floors of Ska = Mustard Plug, King Django, Eastern Standard Time +7 more at Knitting Factory Brooklyn
29: 1998 - Laurel Aitken, The Trojans perform popskatic at the Borderline London W1, Doors 8-11pm
28: 2013 - Prince Buster turns 75
28: 2003 - Prince Buster turns 65; welcome our second Nissan Altima, the blue 2000 GLE 4DSD
28: 1995 - Prince Buster turns 57; Insteps (Ithaca NY) 45 minute set Wetlands NYC
28: 1989 - Prince Buster turns 51; Operation Ivy Lint Rides Again (CD) recorded on Panasonic SV-250 DAT w/ 2 Shure SM58 dynamic mics
27: 2013 - Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra cover of Desmond Dekker's "Fu Man Chu" due out today
27: 2000 - Heather & Christopher's wedding down in Binghamton NY; their DJ has this Curtis Mayfield-produced 1964 EPIC SKA
27: 1996 - Fishbone Wetlands $16
26: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Adolphus Dacres, age 64
26: 1990 - Feel the SKA sensation w/ Hepcat & guests at Stages Night Club in Fontana CA 8pm, All ages show
25: 2000 - Bosstones (So Sad to Say) on Tonight Show Jay Leno
25: 1996 - R.I.P. Bradley Nowell, aged 28
24: 2013 - Fistful of Ska (3 day weekend) at Gas Lamp in Des Moines IA, sponsored by Jump Up Records
24: 2004 - Moon Invaders, 9 guys from Belgium self-titled out on GRO-CD079 today
24: 2000 - This is Ska Too! second Music Club oldies hits w/ notes by Jo Ann Greene, via Record Town Marketplace Mall, 7pm
24: 1995 - Grounds Keeper Willy 'Made in Rochester' competition, Penny Arcade
23: 1997 - Paul Robicheau for Boston Globe – The Bosstones win turf war at Great Woods
22: 2011 - Urban Blight regroup for benefit at Webster Hall, NYC
22: 1999 - Porkers/ Buck O Nine & Ballistic Allshorts at Metro Theatre Sydney NSW
22: 1998 - Moon Showcase at Wetlands: Scofflaws, Allstonians, Dem Brooklyn Bums, Radiation Kings, Catch 22. 8pm $12
22: 1995 - Oolooloo out
20: 2013 - Megalith HQ spared by deadly EF5 (200+ mph) tornado!
19: 2003 - King Django meets Switzerland's Scrucialists on GRO-CD 068 today
19: 1998 - 21:00 Moon Ska Brasil apresenta The Toasters (Av Marq S Vicente, 1767 - CEP 01139-003 - Barra Funda - São Paulo)
19: 1994 - Brendog reports Mephiskapheles MR-666 God Bless Satan is done and going into production next week
18: 2013 - Hepcat Aggrolites Disneyland
18: 2013 - Jump Up Records 20 Year Anniversary festivities continue with Jamaican Oldies Weekend #3 Derrick Morgan!
18: 2013 - Funky vodka? drunk William C. Lewis, 19, arrested for throwing bottle injuring Toots Hibbert at concert in Richmond VA
18: 2013 - Some Ska Band @ Hot Shots VB Club (1046 University Ave) For a Cure charity tournament
18: 1997 - Armory Show, also Sarah Rodman for Boston Sunday Herald – Bim Skala Bim takes its ska trek 'Universal'
18: 1990 - BAM #333 (Primus cover) has a large UB40 article by Nina Ellerman + Skankin' Pickle at the Paradise Lounge, SF
18: 1980 - Welcome to Skamania County, Washington
17: 2013 - Derrick Morgan feature in the Chicago Tribune
16: 2013 - SMRSLT has Upsetters/ Heptones
16: 2013 - Ras Adam Simeon (Upstate NY Reggae Guy) celebrates 45 years, also Slackers & Skannotto Bug Jar Rochester
16: 2002 - Specials' UK issue CD from Lakeshore Records, 18:24
16: 2000 - Punk-O-Rama Tour stops at Water Street MH: Bouncing Souls, Dropkick Murphys, Dwarves, Brody Dalle & Distillers
15: 1999 - Pilfers haunt Ithaca; Oyer wants to know "when did ska fashion go Looney Tunes?"
15: 1996 - Too Hectic Viva Chez Slack MR-084 CD out, 4 date East Coast tour and postcards to promote it, at Mama Kin w/ Skavoovie
14: 1989 - Warzone meets NY Citizens in 'Ska-Core' at CBGB
13: 2013 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat visit Lilac Festival Rochester, exactly 30 years + 30 days since they first played UR Palestra?
12: 1942 - Ian Dury born in Essex England
11: 2013 - 5head Skylark Lounge
10: 2010 - Mark Foggo Mad CD new
10: 2007 - JAV "Geordi logo" for Fairport NY's LeVar Burtones gets produced on shirts
10: 2002 - (Fri) Redstripe w/ Dan & Doc/ Allstonians Mercury Star Lounge (Oster makes the zoomer swap w/ owner Kevin at Starbucks)
10: 1997 - Goldenvoice presents Toasters at Himitz Hall in Honolulu HI 7pm $15.50
10: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca; you can read a review of it in HP#2
9: 1998 - Mephiskapheles outside R.I.T. w/ Thommo, A Hitchcock, Peter Gollan, Sean McCausland. Also Neville's wedding in Las Vegas!
9: 1997 - Professionals/ 5head/ Bim Skala Bim WSMH Rochester
9: 1997 - Colorado Daily weekend section: Connecticut Ska Heads West (SHJ article by David Kirby)
8: 1998 - Goldmine #464 feature on Bucket & Moon Ska by Irwin Soonachan
7: 1995 - Sunday matinee Miggedys CD release party at Milestones
7: 1990 - No Sports 12" PHZA-64 out; we got ours via Torino Italy just last year
6: 2003 - Allstonians III is Bottom's Up! on Fork In Hand Records, also Mearns celebrates 26
6: 2001 - Lord Creator Don't Stay Out Late + Selecter Hairspray from Olean Center Mall, 4:49pm EST
6: 1989 - The Mod/Ska show: Scofflaws, NY Citizens, The Grip Weeds 6-10pm at the Pyramid, 101 Ave A $6
5: 2005 - Christine 'Spike' Nelson & Mike 'Bruce Lee' Park, Water St
5: 2004 - R.I.P. Sir Coxone Dodd, aged 72
5: 2000 - Bosstones (So Sad to Say) on Late Show David Letterman
4: 2013 - Sunspot Records presents Toronto Reggae Explosion w/ BIG YOUTH!, Dawn Penn, Dennis Alcapone & loads more
4: 2013 - Viva Ska Vegas '13!
4: 2007 - Slackers California Brew Haus Rochester
4: 1997 - Magadog Penny Arcade Rochester
3: 2013 - Ken Boothe 'Mr. Rocksteady' at Little Field (Brooklyn) backed by Crazy Baldhead
3: 2013 - R.I.P. Cedric 'Im' Brooks, aged 70 – recently seen in Rochester 6/20/08
2: 2013 - Noise complaint? Big D and the Kid's Table w/ Mrs. Skannotto WSMH
2: 2011 - Glen Dizzybeat likes our Unicorn record!
2: 1996 - Specials' USA issue CD from Fantastic Records, 16:58
2: 1992 - annual Pi Alpha Nu Toga Party always a major event at SUNY New Paltz; plenty kegs + Mighty BossTones
2: 1992 - Intensified at the Sir George Robey, London
1: 1995 - Although the iconic band has split up, Moon release MR056 is a 1988-94 compilation, the truth about the... NY Citizens
May 1981 - Neil Cooper begins his all-cassette label, ReachOut International Records in NYC
May 1964 - The Skatalites begin, some say June
April
29: 2008 - Slackers' Self Medication out on Indication Records
29: 1999 - Late Show w/ David Letterman #1393: Ted Danson, Sarah Duchess of York; MADNESS
28: 2013 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Dave Hillyard and Rocksteady 7, The Pandemics at Stage 48 Manhattan NY
28: 2003 - Apple Records, wot? iTunes music store opens
28: 1998 - Jazz Jamaica is set to release their second CD, Double Barrel on Rkyodisc today
27: 2008 - Ska Splash 2008: Prince Buster & The Delroy Williams Junction Band, Neville Staples, Dennis Alcapone +11 more
27: 1990 - Mayking Manufacturing Ltd. UK test press of MRE020 NY Citizens Stranger Things Have Happened 12"
27: 1967 - Prince Buster at the Ram Jam Club, London
26: 2008 - Ska Splash 2008: Skatalites, English Beat, Mark Foggo, Hotknives, +10 more
26: 2005 - Less Than Jake +3 Water Street Rochester
26: 1998 - Madness, Royal Crown Revue, DHC & Hepcat at Universal Ampitheater Los Angeles. it's recorded for MCA disc Universal Madness
26: 1998 - Bosstones MTV's Reverb live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC
26: 1969 - New Musical Express feature "Dekker Dekkos London" pics Stuart Richmand words Alan Smith
25: 2008 - Ska Splash 2008: at Fantasy Island Complex, Sea Lane, Ingoldmells, Near Skegness UK. Symarip +9 more
25: 1992 - George Carlin at Paramount Theater, MSG NYC it's recorded
24: 1998 - Bosstones perform hitsong 'Impression That I Get' Top Of The Pops TV in UK
24: 1989 - Andrew Penman reports in Western Mail Papur Cenedlaethol Cymru (Wales) 'Skinheads prepare to defend their Image'
24: 1981 - RARE ENGLISH BEAT WHA'PPEN? TEST PRESSING LP RECORD SIRE RECORDS SRK 3567
23: 2013 - R.I.P. Pedigo, James Eric, “Jimmy”, 50, Clearwater, FL. Co-founder of Magadog
23: 1993 - Lil Davey (WITR FM) obtains and henceforth heartily endorses 1990 Phoenix City/ DOJO UK compilation Max The Dog Says...
21: 2013 - Fitz & the Tantrums Westcott Theater Syracuse NY
21: 1966 - sort of a big deal, Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia visits Kingston Jamaica
20: 1993 - Pork Soda out today. Also Bim Skala Bim w/ Crumbs of Insanity (Buffalo) visit Boogie Bar
20: 1990 - Hepcat/ Donkey Show/ Jump With Joey with Rolando Alphonso at the Country Club in Reseda
19: 2011 - 8:05am, a 21 year old woman hits wrong pedal and blasts her Saturn through wall of our post office 376 Lexington Ave
19: 1997 - final Miggedys show is at SUNY Geneseo's annual Earth Day Fest. Oyer reports it as "the worst way to go"
19: 1994 - Jennifer Abbots to NYT: True 'Skinheads' Are Not the Racist Thugs of Media Fame
18: 2003 - Toasters Club at Water St with Fritz, Dan, Brie, Denis & Trish!
18: 1993 - Lil Davey + entourage kicked out of Denny's, 911 Jefferson Road (for playing Monopoly)
17: 1997 - layout Hepcat Deston Berry Q&A in QuarkXpress, [later Pagemaker and .AI] for HP4
17: 1993 - Toasters grabado el sabado Caracas Venezuela and you can later buy it on iTunes
16: 1999 - 5head, Verge, Fat Tsao, Blackouts, Motives ~ Token Joe's Rochester by Swanky Chris ~ no poster, just this
15: 1996 - Skatalites w/ Too Hectic Ithaca carnival poster
14: 2011 - RootsCollider, Skanntron and more. Thursday, Dubland Underground 21+
14: 2006 - unexpected lunch w/ Doc Awkward at Paola's Burritos Place
14: 1983 - 2 TONE'S GONE TO FAD HEAVEN BUT THE ENGLISH BEAT GOES ON by John Griffin/ Montreal Gazette
13: 1995 - Nicholas Salvatore Martielli, ex Buzzo Geneseo/ current sax for The (Ithaca NY) Insteps, thinks of starting his own band
13: 1983 - English Beat, openers R.E.M. University of Rochester
13: 2013 - Electric Avenue presents Beat Brigade, Across the Aisle + the debut of Rude Boy George! at Characters NYC
12: 1987 - Fishbone Tokyo Japan as seen here
12: 1984 - Smash Hits Special AKA
12: 1980 - NME feature Madness in Paris - cool Eiffel tower illustration
10: 1993 - Bosstones Lost Horizon Syracuse
10: 1990 - Camper Van Beethoven split
10: 1982 - Jackie #953 Meet The Easter Funnies (Bad Manners color centerfold pinup)
9: 1998 - JW Patton at 19. Slackers meet Lucy Cummins inna Cortland NY train station
9: 1995 - Bosstones Chucks Syracuse
8: 2013 - R.I.P. Annette Funicello, former Mousketeer and the most Utica NY has ever done or will ever do for SKA, aged 70
8: 2013 - R.I.P. Margaret Iron Lady Thatcher, dreaded former British PM, aged 87
8: 1998 - Hepcat No Worries (Hellcat Europe) All live songs were recorded at Schnitzer Auditorium in Portland, OR
8: 1998 - Neville, lead singer of the Specials, was arrested on misdemeanor battery charges following tonight's gig in Chicago
8: 1997 - DCE Bechle's van outside 50 East Ave burglarized
8: 1993 - Bosstones Boogie Bar Rochester (first time ever, historic floor collapse 6 months later)
7: 1980 - Specials by Jay Cocks Time® Magazine
6: 1999 - BUTLERS WANJA'S CHOICE out on grover.de today
6: 1980 - PostIt® Notes introduced by 3M
5: 2004 - The Stingers Austin Texas All In a Day out on GRO-CD077 today
5: 1980 - Fab208 magazine has Buggles, Tourists, Specials, The Beat - all in swingin' colour + Wonder Woman
5: 1969 - If he could, Desmond would sing 24 hours a day - Dekker by Gordon Coxhill in the NME
4: 2013 - Doc Awk at 58/ Slackers at Soundlab 110 Pearl St –> moved to Waiting Room 334 Delaware Av, Buffalo 14202 $15, 7pm-12am
4: 1985 - Doc Awk at 30/ Untouchables perform their No. 26 UK chart hit "Free Yourself" on Top Of The Pops
4: 1964 - Doc Awk at 9/ A Blue Beat Bombshell: Millie Small by Peter Jones in the NME
3: 2013 - R.I.P. Harry Johnson, studio boss, aged 68
3: 1998 - R.I.P. Tim Yohannan, punk boss, aged 52
2: 1996 - Weed beat? Joint Ventures in Ska compilation out (DVS Media)
2: 1987 - Bim at the Channel Boston; Vito with hair – photo by JJ Gonson proves it
1: 2013 - Green Day rain date Blue Cross Arena Rochester, also marcoonthebass.blogspot.com celebrates 5 years today
1: 2012 - Don't be a fool, get this book
1: 1997 - Bad Manners live at Atlantis, Breedstraat 33 1811 HE Alkmaar Netherlands
1: 1989 - Bim Skala Bim's new sponge logo Tuba City released on Celluloid Skaloid 8003. Tracks feature Roland Alphonso!
April 2012 - MOJO #221: Paul Weller 20 years solo
April 2009 - Record Collector #361: Pet Shop Boys/ Nick Cave/ Jamaican Ska L.P.s worth £400
April 2004 - Kanji/ Kana? Ska In The World #10 out now
April 2003 - Bootleg This! first of its kind MP3 mixtape, internet ska compilation limited 2 week download via DCSKA.COM
April 1999 - Pulped #7 Universal Madness/ Scootering #158 Ed Ball interview/ Duff Steve leaves Moon Records
April 1998 - Pulped #1 is the latest in a long line of street music publications by George Marshall
April 1981 - Nutty Boys #2 Madness comic book returns
March
31: 2013 - London International Ska Festival 25th Anniversary Edition
30: 1964 - Daily Mirror catchline screams "Wild Ones Invade Seaside - 90 Arrests"
30: 2013 - London International Ska Festival 25th Anniversary Edition
29: 2013 - London International Ska Festival 25th Anniversary Edition
29: 1991 - Toasters w/ The Busters (from Germany - their only USA tour) at City Gardens, Trenton NJ
29: 1980 - Jackie #847 articles include The Tops From 2Tone! & Should you chase that boy you fancy?
28: 2013 - London International Ska Festival 25th Anniversary Edition
27: 1991 - Toasters w/ The Busters (Germany) at S.O.B.'s on Varick, NYC $10 adv/ $12 DOS
26: 2013 - Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, featuring special ska zombie storyline airs on the Cartoon Network
26: 2006 - Michael Paul 'Brose' Ambrose (of Bigger Thomas/ NJ fame) in town with English Beat
26: 1996 - Ted don't forget to wind your watch! Slackers team w/ Victor Rice for Better Late Than Never, out the first time
25: 2004 - Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at Water Street Music Hall (Thursday)
25: 1998 - HP5 complete
25: 1997 - Scofflaws Live Vol. 1 taped 12/28/96, CD available from Moon today
24: 1998 - Specials MK II Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent first original stuff since '84 on Waycool/ MCA today. Art direction by F. Shepard Fairey
24: 1996 - Coolie Ranx fired from Toasters following upstate NY weekend gigs
24: 1984 - Paul Weller cover Melody Maker
23: 2013 - Electric Avenue presents The Rudie Crew and The Royal Swindle w/ DJs Duff Steve + Marco at Characters NYC 8:30p
22: 2004 - Rude Rich & The High Notes' Soul Stomp, out on GRO-CD076 today
21: 2012 - Return of Supercharger? TSPO #17, Walkin' released on AVEX JAPAN
21: 1993 - Burning Scale? TSPO #4, Pioneers released on Epic Records/ Sony
20: 2013 - Lee Scratch Perry is 77
19: 2004 - Hepcat Out Of Nowhere + Nigel 7" cuts, band history, vintage logos, art and a write-up about every song equals killer reissue
19: 2003 - Natty Parade? TSPO #11, High Numbers tour begins in support of the LP released 3/5/03
19: 1996 - MR-065 Louis Minott meets Let's Go Bowling on Mr. Twist w/ lime green sellsheet. Many songs are nearly a decade old!
18: 2002 - various Achtung Elmo sampler out ELMCD 1014 Germany
18: 1997 - Evan Dorkin & Emerald City? new Beantown collection, Mash It Up #4 (DVS Media) out today
18: 1994 - Irish Black Russian? Allstonians 90 minutes Horizontal Boogie Bar (Rochester) it's recorded
18: 1994 - moe. opens for Toasters at Icon, Ellicot St in Buffalo
17: 1997 - CMJ #513 reviews Isaac Green & Skalars' Skoolin'
17: 1988 - Operation Ivy "Old Friendships" live on FM 88.7 KSPC [Claremont CA], it's recorded
16: 2013 - Mephiskapheles, Bluebeats, The Reggay Lords at Mercury Lounge NYC $15adv/ $20 dos 21+ 10pm
16: 1999 - Mustard Plug Pray For Mojo
15: 2013 - 5Head plays w/ The Fox Sisters at Abilene 10pm, $8-12
14: 2004 - Jamdown UK's LONDON INTL SKA FESTIVAL 3 w/ KING DJANGO/ PAMA INTL/ RIFFS/ SLAF/ REBELATION/ +4 at Underworld
14: 1987 - Live Aid for Scooterville: UTs/ The Crooks/ No Doubt/ The Key/ In Directions/ Upbeat + 4pm at Fenders Long Beach CA
11: 2013 - Specials begin North American dates at Vic Theatre, Chicago IL
11: 1998 - OUR NEW PAGE IS UP NOW!! (And coming together nicely) Direct yourself to moonska.com
11: 1994 - Steady E and Scofflaws HBB?
11: 1981 - Selecter + at Top Rank Suite in Brighton 8pm GMT
10: 2003 - WRUR FM 88.5 Ska & Roots Emporium presents its Judge Dread Special (R.I.P. 5 years gone)
9: 2013 - As scene on TV: the Action (ex-Skatos) play ska on a flatbed truck float in annual Syracuse NY St. Pat's parade
9: 2005 - Tongues of Fire? TSPO #12, Answer out on Cutting Edge/ AVEX JAPAN

8: 2000 - Rev Horton Heath w/ One Man Army & Dance Hall Crashers, WSMH 8pm
8: 1993 - MMB Ska-Core, The Devil and More E.P. debut on Mercury Polygram; start mini ten day UK tour to promote it March 16-27
7: 1995 - 02134? The Allstonians' (Tanamo-referencing) Go You! released via Studio Nun/ Moon Records 48
5: 2003 - Rochester City Newspaper: This 'zine rules in Hell
4: 2013 - PHZA-25, The Risk Bitter Sweet issued on limited quantity CD
4: 1995 - JAV hears B27 for the first time ever
4: 1989 - Deltones' Stay Where You Are (their first pic sleeve 45) release party & a cake at The Old White House in Brixton 3-11pm
2: 1996 - Allstonians Haunt
2: 2013 - Jump Up Records 20 Year Anniversary festivities continue with Jamaican Oldies Weekend #2
1: 2013 - Toasters w/ Mrs. Skannotto U.S.A. tour finale at TT the Bears 10 Brookline in Cambridge MA 9PM, $12
1: 2013 - Jump Up Records 20 Year Anniversary festivities continue with Jamaican Oldies Weekend #2
1: 2009 - snag Lily Allen's It's not Me, It's You/ Alfie E.P. from FYE Eastview
1: 1998 - Bosstones, Roseland Ballroom NYC
1: 1997 - first of 3 recording sessions which make up the DS Hillyard & Rocksteady 7 Playtime disc, at Coyote Studios BKLYN
1: 1996 - Dicky Barrett & Johnny Vegas on WBER FM radio
1: 1992 - Bosstones, Wetlands NYC
Mar 1995 - Mods con the jazz brigade? Tower Records' Pulse mag has Skatalites page 45 by Larry Birnbaum
Mar 1990 - Reggae Calendar International Vol 3 newspaper #8 w/ Nelson Mandela, Skatalites
Mar 1984 - T Fletcher (original Thrill Me Up jacket notes, 1988) presents a revamped Jerry Dammers on Jamming #18
Mar 1981 - FlexiPop 005 = Bad Manners' No Respect + Just Pretendin' clear powder blue LYNTONE9472 via UK newsagents

February
27: 1997 - Inaugural Ball? Our A. Blanco King Chango Q&A scrawled on a Holiday Inn notepad in Ithaca
27: 1980 - Ska Muziekkrant OOR: Specials/ Selecter/ Dekker cover (Dutch origin newsprint)
26: 1983 - TOASTERS at Interlude, 21 N. Rte 303 Blauvelt, N.Y. Not 100% certain if our Toasters though
25: 2013 - Various: Island Records Presents Ska 1960-66 (40 track 2CD) out today on Spectrum UK
25: 2011 - Bluekilla Never Was A Ska Band on Yellowbird / Blue Esquire Records today
24: 2006 - Slackers, Operatives, Mechatama +2 at Club Infinity Williamsville 7pm. Artvoice blurb by Daniel B. Honigman
24: 1997 - CRILLE not just for Star Trek TNG credits anymore: MR101 Skarmageddon 3 is 45 up-and-coming bands out today
23: 2013 - Electric Avenue show w/ The Reggay Lords and The Copasetics at Characters NYC
23: 2007 - Westbound Train, Bluebeats, King Django, Bomb Town at the Knitting Factory BK, it's recorded
23: 2005 - Jägermeister presents Toasters Ska Brawl '05 Castaways Ithaca; WBT +1 open. This on moonlit drive there
23: 1998 - Forever Ska: The Skatalites Carry On by Brett Milano in Boston Phoenix weekly wire
23: 1996 - Skavoovie & the Epitones live at Tower Records Boston to unveil JIMBO STANDARD use on Fat Footin'
23: 1983 - AQUARIAN #459 cover English Beat and interview Dave Wakeling
22: 2013 - Stomp Records Ska Canada celebrates 18th Anniversary at Club Soda in Montreal w/Planet Smashers +4
22: 1996 - Sgt Scagnetti + Too Hectic haunt Ithaca
21: 2012 - Toasters, Mrs. Skannotto, Fever, Nyxon at Dubland UG. Poster sourced by Arthur Fraser
21: 2001 - via Jump Up mailorder: Floyd Lloyd & Potato 5 meet Laurel Aitken on CD from Grover Germany
21: 1997 - NYSJE w/ Insteps at the Fordham University Coffeehouse, Bronx NY
21: 1997 - Mephiskapheles, Inspecter 7, Bluebeats, Magadog, Edna's Goldfish, Metro Stylee at Wetlands
20: 1997 - Toasters live at De Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
20: 1986 - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames at Gaz's Rockin' Blues, Dean Street, London W1
19: 1988 - Skaos live at De Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL 45 min
19: 1983 - Saturday: Untouchables sign copies of new single The General at ACE, 7276 Melrose 12-6pm. TWIST #1 modzine out
18: 2002 - Busters 360º out
18: 1988 - Crazy 8's "Find Myself a Sunny Spot" (v/a Mashin' Up The Nation) recorded live at the Univ of Oregon
18: 1967 - see the Prince Buster 10 Commandments RCA Victor advertisment pg 6 of Cash Box
17: 2000 - Just like Buddy Holly? Blackouts + Mexican Cession + yuk shot girls at Tremors 1509 Scottsville Road, it's recorded
16: 1997 - Pietasters, Spring Heeled Jack, Isaac Green & Skalars, Step Lively (Wetlands, starts 4PM sharp!)
16: 1972 - Funky Wednesday: D. Dekker & Aces w/ Erasmus Corum at Top Rank Watford 8-12am
15: 2013 - Stomp Records Ska Canada celebrates 18th Anniversary at Opera House in Toronto w/Planet Smashers +2
15: 2000 - Big D and the Kid's Table's new CD is Good Luck
15: 1998 - Skavoovie & the Epitones/ Skoidats/ Rude Bones/ See Spot Wetlands
15: 1997 - Easy Big Fella Eat at Joey's MR105 release party RockCandy Seattle WA
15: 1996 - Mephiskapheles/ Can't Say haunt Ithaca
14: 2013 - Wall Street Journal goes retro Reggae!
14: 1998 - 2nd Annual Penn State Winter Ska Fest - HUB Ballroom, PSU
14: 1997 - New York Public Library is sponsoring an exhibit thru May. Moon Ska has loaned 'em old posters, LP's & rare memorabilia!
14: 1980 - Selecter, Holly & The Italians, Bodysnatchers at King's Hall, Derby England (Holly soon gets booed off this tour)
14: 1970 - NME: Millie releases My Love and I on Pyramid 45 / Andy Capp Popatop out on Treasure Isle
13: 2000 - Maude Flanders killed by flying t-shirt: "I'm really sorry to hear that. We just lost our drummer to a Pentecostal ska band."
13: 1998 - 2nd Annual Penn State Winter Ska Fest in HUB Ballroom, PSU
13: 1972 - Funky Sunday Club: D. Dekker & Aces w/ Erasmus Corum at Top Rank Reading 7-11pm
12: 2002 - Nothing Good To Eat? Hellcat Records bargain Give 'Em the Boot #3 out today
12: 1997 - Triple rowdy ska >>> D.J. Wade w/ Isaac Green & the Skalars/ DLO/ Gibsons haunt Ithaca during blizzard!
12: 1993 - Sue Smallwood's "Ska is Simply Living History" in The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk VA)
10: 1995 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca, it's recorded 90 min
10: 1994 - SKABOOM! & RECRIMINATIONS MRO13 CD compilation for the nineties w/ graphic enhancement by Andrew 'Blanquito Man' Chango
9: 1999 - Bad Manners' superb Rare & Fatty 1976-97 MR131 out
9: 1996 - Toasters haunt; Coolie's vibes eulogize a bit about David Molina
9: 1978 - TOOTS & MAYTALS plus TRIPLE THREAT REVUE (the late Stevie Ray Vaughan) Armadillo World HQ, Austin TX
9: 1974 - Record Mirror reviews 28-track Double Dekker longplayer TRLD 401
8: 2000 - Busters' Welcome To Busterland
8: 1995 - On My Radio, long-running ska specialty show hosted by Lil Davey (also Ben + Matty) WITR FM 9-11pm, new timeslot
8: 1986 - Goldenvoice presents Bad Manners w/ Fishbone/ Question/ J-Walkers at Fenders in Long Beach CA
8: 1969 - NME: D. Dekker & the Aces will return to Britain March 14! Plus a new single called Israelites, issued to coincide
7: 1987 - Soul Shack DJ's at Vine & Santa Monica Blvd Hollywood $5
6: 2004 - The Lightbulbs (Fairport NY) call it quits, effective 3pm
5: 2013 - Jimmy Cliff sits in with the CBS Orchestra on the Late Show with David Letterman
5: 2004 - Bravo TV Original has Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music airing at 8/ 7pm and repeats all weekend
5: 1999 - rent passenger van to Penn State University Ska fest weekend! + Digital stairwell
5: 1986 - Bad Manners, Camper Van Beethoven and Affirmative Action at The Oasis, Sacramento CA 7:30pm
4: 1996 - Scofflaws, Big Lick, Stick Figure Stanley upstairs matinee Middle East Boston MA, 2pm $7
4: 1967 - Record Mirror: Millie Small and Jackie Edwards left for Ghana State Fair this week
2: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt again, not long since their last appearance early Dec
2: 1980 - SPECIALS RECORD MIRROR TERRY COLOUR COVER UK
1: 2013 - How'm I doin'? R.I.P. Ed Koch, aged 88. See Style Wars or this interview for more detail
1: 2002 - find Celluloid/M.I.L. Multimedia 2 fer 1 Ska Killers used $7 at LRE 20:03; Duff Steve sez don't buy this illegal Toasters bootleg 5/10/96
Feb 1998 - Hepcat cover of Mean Street Vol. VIII #8 by Patrick Green. Also LTJ and AAA inside
Feb 1995 - AP#79 cover is LINT
Feb 1992 - Moon Records release MR-031 is California Skaquake
Feb 1976 - Black Music magazine cover feature "In The Land of Reggae"

January 2013
31: 1995 - Set me up another one: Bim Skala Bim's sixth album, Eyes & Ears released on their own BiB Records!
31: 1991 - Derrick Morgan at Gossips, Dean St. London, 45 min it's recorded
30: 1998 - Scofflaws, Bim Skala Bim, Metro Stylee (cd release) at Wetlands NYC 7pm $12
30: 1996 - MR-061 Laurel Aitken for USA/ Exec Producer Shay Vishawadia. Sessions AKA The Story So Far (Grover Germany 1995)
30: 1980 - Specials at the Paradise Boston, 17 tracks it's recorded (and pressed into vinyl)
29: 2013 - International Blastbeat Celebration Day; also Dischord Records spent it all on the bag
29: 2013 - RBF Candy Coated Fury World Tour w/ Pilfers and Dan MU330 Potthast in Rochester NY
28: 2000 - Blackouts do double u ITR radio benefit
28: 1994 - Scofflaws (2 sets when Skavengers cancel) at Boogie Bar, Rochester 100 min.
27: 1995 - Too Hectic, Zopies Syracuse NY 10pm
26: 1980 - The Beat w/ UB40, Akrylykz at Electric Ballroom London 7:30
26: 1980 - Phil Sutcliffe traces the torturous roots of the Selecter in Sounds this week
25: 1996 - Conehead Buddha & Too Hectic haunt Ithaca
23: 1996 - Skavoovie & Epitones' Fat Footin' MR-062 out. Also Regatta 69 CD given away on WITR's Tuesday night ska show
21: 2013 - Toasters, Mrs. Skannotto, Uncommonly Smooth, No Collar at Dubland Underground 6-11pm, $10/$12
20: 1998 - Vive la Ska Revolution: Bad Manners 2xCD hits collection out on Recall in UK
20: 1996 - Toasters + SHJ at Lupo's HH in Providence RI, 7pm $7
19: 2013 - Electric Avenue presents The Scofflaws (LINY) + The Bullbuckers (Delaware) at Characters NYC 243 W 54th St
19: 2004 - MLK Day edition of Ska & Roots Emporium 88.5 WRUR FM
19: 1996 - Toasters, Skavoovie & Epitones, Nigel 6 at Mama Kin 36 Landsdowne Street Boston MA 19+
18: 1994 - Bim Skala Bim at Boogie Bar, Rochester 100 min
17: 1989 - Unicorn LP release The Busters' Ruder Than Rude. We praise it in HP#1 as well
17: 1980 - The Beat w/ Dominators at the Abbeymount Astoria, Edinburgh Scotland
16: 1996 - Ian Hodkinson's Ska Goes North #4 has seen the light of day in Montreal PQ H3Z 1J7
16: 1980 - Macca's Japanese pot bust – King Perry the Upsetter complains!
16: 1970 - Jimmy Cliff hit single Vietnam out on Trojan Records TR7722 today
15: 1994 - Kristen Lieb Ska for Billboard Magazine USA
15: 1981 - Specials w/ the Beat at Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin Ireland; a terrible fight broke out in the crowd!
14: 2000 - D-Train claims Allston sons'll be playing tonight at coffeehouse in UR student union?
14: 1996 - Mephiskapheles doom Burlington VT, 45 min it's recorded
14: 1989 - Bim Skala Bim, Zoot Skazine & Gaz Mayall in NME for Rude Awakening, a 2 page spread by Steve Lamacq
13: 1989 - Winter Surf Stomp with Square Roots, Trebels and Let's Go Bowling at Slims in SF CA
11: 1997 - Go Go Rays/ Lettuce Boy/ Creepers/ Too Hectic/ Miggedys at Mercury Theatre, Buffalo NY $5
9: 2006 - HP's ten year mark, also Slackers' Slack In Japan out in UK today
7: 2011 - The Steakouts at Dubland Underground, 10 songs it's recorded
7: 1989 - Potato 5 at the Pied Bull, London, 45 min it's recorded
6: 2003 - Ska Ska Skandal! #1–4 reissue in limited edition digipak from Pork Pie Records Germany
3: 2004 - Metro Chicago's MIDWEST SKAFEST '04 is 5 bands, all ages, with DJ sets spun by Chuck Wren
2: 2013 - Nadav Nirenberg (Streetlight Manifesto t-bone) takes the power back
1: 2000 - Bim, Allstonians, Jaya the Cat at Middle East Cambridge, MA
Jan 2006: Missing Words #2 (Norway)
Jan 1988: OP IVY makes vinyl debut Hectic E.P. out on Lookout! Records as LK 003

December
31: 1993 - NYE at The Boston Garden; Bosstones open for Aerosmith
30: 1994 - Hepcat at Alligator Lounge, Santa Monica CA
30: 1994 - Ska-ma-geddon '94 megabill draws 1000+ to Manhattan Center NYC where the house sound stinks
30: 1994 - Slackers at the Ludlow Street Cafe, LES NYC 10pm w/ special guest percussion players + Jay Nugent of Agent 99
29: 1995 - Stubborn All Stars, SHJ and The Agents at Club Babyhead, Providence RI all ages
28: 2012 - 'Ey guy: Bim Skala Bim, Super Ska, Riki Rocksteady & The Arraignments at Middle East Downstairs
28: 1995 - R.I.P. David Molina, aged 26
28: 1993 - Scofflaws, RTY, the Slackers, the Pie Tasters at Sounds Of Brazil, NYC
27: 2012 - R.I.P. Lloyd Charmers Tyrell, aged 74
27: 1995 - Moon Ska holiday party at New Music Cafe NYC w/ NYSJE, Scofflaws, Pietasters
26: 1969 - Desmond Dekker, J. Cliff, J. Edwards, Count Prince Miller at the Christmas Carnival at Tottenham Royal
25: 2012 - Happy Christmas
25: 1982 - Untouchables live at Roxy Theatre 9009 Sunset Blvd 9PM $6.50
22: 2012 - Slackers at Bell House Brooklyn
22: 2012 - Pressure Cooker newest CD release party Middle East Upstairs
22: 1995 - Elevator Music's Skanarchy 2 compilation launch party = Skavoovie, Thumper and Nigel 6 (Lo Fi Big Band didn't show)
22: 1994 - Pietasters 2 sets Chameleon Club, Lancaster PA
22: 1989 - Untouchables live at Roxy Theatre 9009 Sunset Blvd, 90 min it's recorded
21: 2012 - End of the world as we know it w/ Some Ska Band +2 at Tala Vera Rochester, $5
21: 2010 - NYSJE take five in Moscow
21: 1988 - Staccato Records Presents Christmas in Skaville at the Brixton Fridge (recorded for BBLP1 and Youtube)
18: 2007 - Chocolate pudding? a long-awaited MMB b-sides Medium Rare out now
17: 2000 - Moon throws in the towel Stateside
17: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim, East L.A. Syracuse 18+
16: 1994 - Hoodlum Empire, VGS, Mudsharks, Radio Noise at the Berkeley Square
16: 1990 - R.I.P. Jackie Mittoo
17: 1996 - Professionals guest performance on Lil Davey's WITR 89.7 FM Ska on my Radio 10pm
15: 1996 - screw Christmas this year: Professionals, Bob Barker and the Womanizers, Latchkey Kids at THAG Sunday matinee
15: 1994 - Let's Go Bowling return to Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO for 90 min. it's recorded
15: 1988 - Copenhagen Denmark's Napoleon Solo debut How To Steal The World out on Unicorn, produced by B. Bloodvessel
12: 1992 - Calling All Rude Boys and Girls Marcus E. Haupt (later VP Lehman Bros.) begins the alt.music.ska newsgroup, 8pm EST
10: 1995 - Bim, Mephiskapheles, Slackers at Wetlands $6
9: 2003 - Laurel Aitken suffers a heart attack at 79; he will recover for 18 months
9: 1979 - Selecter, The Beat UB40 Lyceum London
8: 2012 - Heavy Manners at Avalon 15 Landsowne St, Boston MA
8: 1995 - Scofflaws & Too Hectic haunt Ithaca
8: 1994 - GOODBYE, PORK-PIE HAT Arsenals hop one step beyond Two-Tone by Chris O'Connor (Indie Eye Weekly, Toronto)
7: 2012 - ROC the Casbah Clash Tribute Bug Jar
5: 2012 - R.I.P. Dave Brubeck, aged 1 day short of 92
5: 1996 - Scofflaws & Too Hectic haunt Ithaca
4: 2012 - after years of snubbing Rush, Cleveland skanks?
4: 2003 - Rancid, Water St Music Hall
4: 1982 - Ska Dance Party w/ The UTs, Jetz, Question, Modbeats, Underground, I-Spy at Concert Factory Cosa Mesa CA
3: 1995 - Broken yo-yo? Bosstones, U of R Alexander Palestra it's recorded
3: 1982 - Ska Dance Party w/ The UTs, Jetz, Question, Modbeats, Underground, I-Spy at Concert Factory Cosa Mesa CA
2: 1992 - Drugs and kittens/ I'll drink to that/ Howwhywuz, howwhyam (Ska-core, Devil & More E.P. encore) recorded live in Boston
1: 2012 - Intensified's annual xmas gig at Brass Monkey, Hastings UK
1: 1990 - Joy to the World: Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra debut on Epic Records
Dec 1980 - Dzuboks #104 (Yugoslavian musikmag from Belgrade) jukebox SKA SPECIJAL + Iron Maiden w/o Bruce
Dec 1979 - Flexipop #1 out
November
30: 1987 - Fishbone release It's a Wonderful Life 12" E.P. for the holiday season
28: 1982 - English Beat live in Montego Bay Jamaica
26: 2007 - Slackers' Boss Harmony Sessions out
26: 1995 - Isaac Green & the Skalars record their Strikeout Summer 7" at Profound Sound in STL MO
26: 1994 - Steady E release party Take It, Take It, Take It! T.T. the Bears Cambridge MA; Gangster Fun + Beat Soup open
25: 2012 - Lint turns 47
25: 1995 - Lint at 30? Toasters, Mephiskapheles, Spring-Heeled Jack at Tuxedo Junction Danbury CT all ages
24: 1993 - SKAVOOVEE '93 package [Special Beat, Skatalites, Selecter, Toasters] wraps up at Manhattan Center NYC
24: 1989 - LGB, Potato 5, Sharkskin, Dance Hall Crashers +2 more at the Country Club in Reseda CA 6pm $14/16.50
23: 1996 - Moon Ska Showcase w/ Toasters, SHJ, Spider Nick Maddogs, Step Lively at 7 Willow Port Chester NY, $10/12
23: 1993 - SKAVOOVEE '93 package [Special Beat, Skatalites, Selecter, Toasters] at Icon 391 Ellicot St. Buffalo
22: 1996 - "Let the record show that this is the most diverse answer we've ever had"
22: 1962 - JFK in Dallas
21: 2012 - Thunder Body release party, 3rd CD Radio Active
21: 1996 - Pietasters entertain Eisner & Lubin Auditorium at 566 LaGuardia Place NYC
21: 1994 - Hepcat Out Of Nowhere (Japan Edition w/ OBI strip) on Parco / Nippon Columbia label QTCY-2050 out!
21: 1981 - VILLAINS PROMOTE SKA MUSIC in Winnipeg Free Press
20: 1996 - Hepcat/ Sensefield. Allison Mehr "Everything you wanted to know about SKA but were afraid to ask" Artvoice V7N26
19: 2010 - where's your 5head? A reunion, recorded for Kickstarter-funded DVD
18: 2012 - Aggrolites Badalona Spain!
18: 1996 - tIM Caron (RBDTC 'zine) postmark on missent pinup modgirl for use on HP#3 collector cover 2
18: 1989 - Milk & Cheese invite you to see The Steadys, Toasters, Let's Go Bowling, Potato 5 at CBGB, Bowery L.E.S. N.Y.C. 16+!!!
17: 2012 - Jump Up Records presents Jamaican Oldies Weekend w/ Stranger Cole + 1328 Morse Ave, Chicago
17: 1995 - Mearns vs. Martin Rich, Bart Mitchell Quad, Canisius College
17: 1979 - Garry Bushell devotes 2 pages to Skinhead in this week's Sounds
16: 2012 - Jump Up Records presents Jamaican Oldies Weekend w/ Pat Kelly + 1328 Morse Ave, Chicago
16: 2006 - Huckleberry 585 promotion: One Night Band, The Expos (feat Yvonne Moir), ROCsteady Allstars at Milestones
16: 2001 - Heineken? trade Bucket a finished HP7 for MR023 This Gun for Hire, Club at Water St
16: 1999 - Skandinavian Dance Craze out on Burning Heart Sweden
16: 1993 - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past 2xCD out on EMI Chrysalis
15: 2012 - Mustard Plug w/ special guests; B-Side Basterds, Mrs. Skannotto, Run The Coast in Buffalo 6PM
15: 2002 - Joe Strummer's last gig, it's recorded
15: 2001 - 585 becomes official; it's the first new area code in upstate NY since 1954
14: 1993 - MR-045 Toasters Skavoovee Tour Live in L.A. recorded at the Palace in Hollywood (no Hawaii date)
14: 1989 - Duff Guy Steve, (at age 23) receives the above Unicorn catalog postmarked Northern Ireland
13: 1993 - MR-045 Toasters Skavoovee Tour Live in L.A. recorded at the Palace in Hollywood
13: 1987 - Ska Explosion '87 Toasters, Donkey Show and Underground at Kix in Long Beach CA
13: 1980 - Rolling Stone #330 has Bowie, BeeGees and The Beat!
12: 1994 - Steady Earnest/ Skavoovie and the Epitones' Mash it Up Vol 3 release party at Local 186 Boston MA
11: 2000 - Saturday. Bim Skala Bim, Blackouts at WSMH
11: 1999 - Thursday. Bim Skala Bim, 5head at Milestones
10: 2012 - Pietasters [reschedule] +4 at Dubland Underground, $10, 7pm Martyr Productions presents
10: 2001 - Just over a year in the making, HP#7 completed
10: 1995 - LGB/ Allstonians/ SHJ/ Edna's Goldfish at Wetlands NYC
10: 1994 - Miggedys/ Ansley Court at Boogie Bar, it's recorded
10: 1969 - Desmond Dekker & The Aces at Silver Blades Ice Rink SW16 LDN
9: 1996 - Rochester NY ska Professionals' first gig/ also Maxwell Smart Honolulu Hawaii
8: 1998 - Version City presents Skinnerbox NYC Demonstration release party w/ Radiatoion Kings, Metro Stylee! Coney Island High 6pm $7
8: 1996 - LGB at Sugarhill Skatepark; 'The boys are back in town' article by Ken Robison in the Fresno Bee weekend section
7: 1980 - Offs Live at The Mabuay Gardens it's recorded (18 tracks on CD in 2000)
5: 1994 - fresh from the Abyss, Ben from bean town guest DJs on WITR 89.7 FM ska show
3: 2012 - annual Symarip in London show w/ Trojans at 100 Club Oxford St
2: 2012 - Toasters World Tour concludes at Knitting Factory Brooklyn
2: 1994 - DJ's Jah Crunchy and Doc Awkward spin debut SKA at the Abyss, 240 South Avenue
1: 2012 - Matisyahu University Of Rochester
1: 2002 - It's sleeting out: Mustard Plug, Blackouts, Isotopes live Club at Water St
November 2000: Rude International #5 has Gadjits, DHC +more
November 1998: AP feature Too Much Too Soon: 2 Tone Ska Story by Chris Nickson
November 1995: Last Minute Gift Giving? This Skazette sez Moon Ska now takes credit card orders!
November 1994: AP has Mephiskapheles / Sassy Magazine has blurb about 60's Ska
November 1993: AP reviews Hepcat's Out Of Nowhere (Moon)
November 1993: Thrasher Mighty Mighty Bosstones
November 1991: King Apparatus self-titled
October
31: 2012 - Do the Creep!
30: 1992 - Mustard Plug unleashes its Skapocalypse Now tape. Reissued by the band on CD in '98
29: 2012 - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da is the 10th Madness studio album, also V/A Trojan Presents Mod Ska 2xCD today
29: 1997 - Pietasters, Bouncing Souls, Smooths 9pm at Coffman's Great Hall umn.edu
29: 1992 - Trojans at Gaz's Rockin Blues NW1
28: 2012 - fifteen years since the release of their D.L.T.B.G.Y.D. album, Toasters are in Buffalo w/ Tad Dziekonski
28: 2008 - Randy's 50th Anniversary!
28: 2004 - Kingpins announce their next album will be released under the name Lo & the Magnetics
28: 1997 - Dynamite Ska Vol. 1 [old school sixties cheapo from BCI-Eclipse Distribution] out
27: 2005 - Mod Reggae Vol. #2 Box Set (Trojan) from Tower Records Newbury St, Boston
27: 1985 - Toasters Beat Up 7" promo postcard; CBGB 1am
24: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim American Playhouse from Lol Dojo in UK
24: 1980 - Bill Graham presents English Beat at the Warfield Theatre SF CA
23: 1996 - Mephiskapheles Buffalo
22: 2012 - PHOEDIGI35 = Toasters' 1st Pool Shark out on Phoenix City/ Cherry Red United Kingdom + 8 bonus tracks
22: 2004 - TSPO 15th Anniversary live since debut in National Yoyogi Stadium No.1 Gymnasium DVD recorded
22: 1994 - Penn State Skank! JC Superska, Slackers, Agent 99, Mephiskapheles, SHJ, Hub Ballroom $4
22: 1991 - Several songs are 4 years old on Music To Bowl By UPC 743748002720 but it prompts us to write POB 1412 NYC
22: 1982 - Untouchables, Exceptions + Strawberry Blue at Concert Factory in Costa Mesa CA
22: 1965 - Don't roll those bloodshot eyes at me - new Millie 45 out
21: 2012 - Asbestos Records presents Skalapalooza 2012 at Gramercy Theatre
21: 1997 - Moon SKA NYC out with helvetica black Real Ska Reel VHS magnetic tape!
21: 1985 - Dead Milkmen: "don't forget your Motley Crue t-shirt/ all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail"
20: 2004 - Dub is a Weapon + GPGDS, Club at Water St
20: 1998 - Loafers' Contagious (their 1989 Staccato LP) issued on CD by House of Ska / Slackers' Question out
20: 1994 - Bosstones, Total Chaos at the Fillmore in SF
20: 1994 - Specials, live at The Palace Hollywood [Home Records Italy presents 19 track CD]
19: 1994 - MR023C (Toasters' TGFH tape) reference cassette from Discmakers to Moon
18: 1997 - Billboard®: Ska Fever Surges Into A New Era/ Genre's Latest Revival Brings Music Stateside/ Current Craze Opens Doors
17: 2012 - Rico is 78 today
16: 2011 - English Beat, HOB Mandalay Bay Las Vegas NV; poster by Frank Kozik
15: 2010 - Mrs. Skannotto #5: The Long Dark Road CD release party Club at Water St.
15: 2005 - English Beat, WSMH Rochester 10/15 saturday night (but we went to the Mirage instead)
14: 2012 - R.I.P. Tommi Infamous, aged 29
14: 1992 - Mother Down, Skaboola Ra (pre-Miggedys) Penny Arcade
14: 1991 - It's a whole new decade innit?: Selecter On My Radio '91 [remix single] out today
14: 1980 - Specials + guests, live at Rotters in Liverpool £3
13: 2012 - UTs at Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach CA 7pm
13: 2012 - Destroy Babylon w/ The Frightnrs at Electric Avenue, 243 W. 54th Characters NYC $5
12: 2002 - Find a half dozen shrinkwrapped Cool Beginnings 81-83 discs at a shady DVD bootlegger's table in 14607
11: 2012 - Festival Ska de Montréal / Montreal Ska Festival IV weekend!
11: 1997 - Scofflaws live on tape
10: 1980 - English Beat at Tiffany's in Glasgow Scotland
9: 1993 - Steady E, Gangster Fun Boogie Bar / Mearns pukes
8: 1994 - Chucklehead + Miggedys Boogie Bar / Mearns poster

6: 2012 - Gaz and Nina Los Angeles!
6: 2012 - Millie is 66 today

6: 1990 - London Ska Weekend Alldayer 3pm-3am = Laurel Aitken, Riffs, Bugsy Malone + at the Robey London. DJ is Watford Jon
5: 2012 - Mrs. Skanotto/ Less Than Jake tour begins at Summit Music Hall, Denver CO
5: 2002 - the finished HP7 gets delivered to Dave Wakeling, Montage Grill Rochester
5: 1985 - OU818: the sizzling return of Fishbone w/ J Walkers and The Question to the Key Club Hollywood
4: 1994 - Stewiest band around? Question the Answers streetdate
4: 1969 - Because of recent disturbances in Ireland, Dekker has been insured for £250,000 during his current tour there this weekend
3: 2012 - John Barry paid Vic Flick $15 on NPR /see the Kingpins' track for more detail
3: 2008 - Caribbean Moonstomp Fest: Jump Up Records 15th Anniversary Weekend at the Bottom Lounge, Chicago

3: 1990 - Soirée Ska with Toasters, Dr. No, + support, live Paris France
3: 1980 - English Beat 888 Yonge Street Toronto
2: 1998 - Toasters haunt Ithaca
1: 2012 - Ed Ward talks Brum English Beat NPR
1: 2003 - Selecter Live in London DVD released (in Sweden)
September
29: 2012 - Untouchables +8 at Whisky Au Go Go 8901 Sunset Hollywood
29: 2012 - Toasters Bejing!
29: 1997 - Ram Di Dance out on Grover Germany. USA license as MR126 will follow in 1998
28: 1990 - Michael Loprete on Vinnie Nobile: "Bim's trombonist is 'bad'" page E-9 of Richmond Times-Dispatch
27: 2012 - Toasters Jakarta!
27: 2010 - Heather's book published by McFarland; Charles Benoit loves it!
26: 1991 - Special Beat at Variety Arts Center Los Angeles CA $19, 8pm
26: 1970 - Roy Carr in NME: "Desmond Dekker is set to reveal his two sides on Double LP"
25: 2012 - Can't get used to losing you no matter what I try to do, R.I.P. Andy Williams, aged 84
24: 2005 - Skatalites live at Teatro Armenio Buenos Aires Argentina 15 tracks it's recorded IN ORBIT VOL.1 Japanese Import
24: 1998 - SLC Punk initial release date
24: 1996 - Skank Down Under New Zealand & Aussie Ska compilation Moon Records MR077

23: 2005 - Skatalites live at Teatro Armenio Buenos Aires Argentina 15 tracks it's recorded IN ORBIT VOL.1 Japanese Import
23: 1997 - Slackers Redlight
21: 2009 - R.I.P. Brian CE Oster, aged 30; exactly ten years since Pilfers' Chawalaleng out
21: 1978 - Do you remember? EWF's huge hit?
21: 1969 - Carribbean Music Festival Empire Pool, Wembley J. Nash/ D. Dekker/ J. Edwards/ Max Romeo/ J. Cliff/ D. Morgan +10
20: 2012 - Toasters Down Under! at Cambridge Hotel Newcastle
20: 1996 - Scooter Madness Chicago/ backed by a large tobacco company, Bryan Bedell organized this weekend city rally
19: 1997 - "Don't Let Inspecter 7's Looks Fool You" inna New Brunswick NJ paper
17: 2001 - Carlos Malcolm Ska Mania new $6 used bin LRE 16:42
16: 1997 - Island Records' 40th Anniversary Vol. 1 1959-64 out
15: 2012 - Beat Brigade + Bigger Thomas + Mephiskapheles Unplugged at Electric Avenue Characters NYC $10
15: 2012 - Ska Nation 5 Esplanade Hotel St. Kilda Victoria, Australia
15: 1996 - Toasters w/ Murphy's Law, Shyster & Rocket 88 at Barbarella in Orlando, FL
15: 1995 - stroboscopic sound? Ska in Hi-Fi (Scofflaws) finally out on MR052
15: 1990 - Bosstones w/ the Hellcats from Outer Space at The Rat, Boston
14: 1995 - Stubborn All-Stars' first live appearance
13: 1991 - Special Beat w/ Bigger Thomas at City Gardens Trenton NJ; see Roger's autograph for more
13: 1979 - Selecter finish their first tour as headliners at Electric Ballroom (London); soon their 1st single on Two Tone out
12: 1962 - "We choose to go to the Moon!"
10: 1987 - Trojans celebrate their debut longplayer Ala-Ska [GAZ LP 002] with a record release party at Gossips NW1
9: 2003 - Slackers' velvet-wallpaper-motif Close My Eyes released
9: 1995 - Specials' Singles Collection F2 21823 from Fantastic Records 15:36
9: 1993 - Ska Flames at Gaz's Rockin' Blues NW1
7: 2000 - find Best of 2Tone Japanese Toshiba CHR TT 5012 cheap used at LRE
7: 1995 - Philip K Burke illustrates Lint on pg 54 of Rolling Stone
7: 1989 - Vernon Reid? No Sports' King Ska out on Unicorn longplayer PHZA-49 today; Judge Dread endorses it
6: 2001 - Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973-1977
6: 1986 - free show at Clapham Common bandstand (London) w/ D. Dekker, Potato 5, Deltones, Nomad Pop, 2pm GMT
5: 2012 - R.I.P. Joe South, aged 72. see Byron Lee, Deal's Gone Bad cover
5: 1989 - Selecter Selected Selections (best of compact disc) released by Chryalis
3: 1982 - English Beat live at Steve Wozniak's US Festival, it's recorded (out on CD 9/18/12)
Sep 2012 - Mojo #226 features David Bowie/ Kinks/ English Beat/ + CD
Sep 1993 - Ken Wagner's BLUE RYDER #31 [Boss Tones cover] outta Olean, NY
Sep 1989 - Scott Jackson reviews the Coxone Dodd compilation Musical Fever (Trojan) in Option #28
August
31: 2004 - Desorden Publico hits compilation The Ska Album on Megalith for USA
31: 1994 - Press release for the 40-date Skamageddon '94 tour = MU330 and Buck O' Nine
31: 1992 - At the urging of his parents Antonio established Top Notch Monogramming
31: 1989 - Trojans Live at Gaz's Rockin' Blues, NW1 its recorded
31: 1987 - Trojans Live at The Notting Hill Carnival, London its recorded
30: 2003 - Specials' Skinhead Girl from Fantastic Records 12:23pm
30: 1996 - Citrus Records? Ed Lowery (Magadog) is the cover story of Jam Weekly VOL 8 ISSUE 204, in Tampa FL
29: 2001 - Clash London Calling deluxe, Waves Music Marketplace 5pm
29: 1995 - "They're on 510" DHC Lockjaw out on Fontana MCA/ 510 today
28: 2012 - Quadrophenia out on Criterion Collection DVD
27: 1996 - King Chango debut out on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label/ Warner Bros
27: 1989 - Ska Explosion III: Judge Dread Loafers Hotknives Riffs AKO live at the King's Hall - in our little part of Kent
26: 1998 - Skank Licensed to Ska / Ska for Ska's Sake / 15 Commandments of Ska all reissued on Snapper Music CD in U.S.
25: 1994 - Stephen Sherrill's Behind The 'Zines pg 73 Rolling Stone
24: 1998 - Spider Nick & Maddogs out with Voyage to The Palace of Kali
22: 2012 - ten years since Megalith Records founded in Norman, OK
22: 2004 - Ethiopians' Slave Call (Rohit 7716) cutouts x3 + 3 via Carousel Center Syracuse
22: 1995 - Rancid's outcome of the wolfs; but we get Dead Kennedys' In God We Trust Inc. from Lakeshore
22: 1995 - Less Than Jake's Pezcore on Dill Records
22: 1980 - Headline Oh Carolina b/w London City Strife 45 out
21: 1989 - Bim Skala Bim (w/ Roland Alphonso) Tuba City out on Skaloid vinyl and cassette
20: 1994 - Buck O' Nine Songs in the Key of Bree out on Immune
19: 2003 - DDekker double disc
18: 1998 - Toasters Live in London w/ Dr. Ring Ding (MR-143) at Borderline, Charing Cross Road recorded
17: 1998 - Toasters Live in London w/ Dr. Ring Ding (MR-143) at Borderline, Charing Cross Road recorded
17: 1998 - Mustard Plug: new Milestones location opens at 170 East Ave - venue lasts 8 more years
17: 1996 - Denton TX Grown-Ups last show ever
16: 2003 - Mass Hysteria, Miasmics, Amy Ryan at Harmony House / the release of HP8
16: 1998 - Laurel Aitken, NYSJE, Chris Murray, Strangeways, One Groovy Coconut Wetlands
13: 1988 - Untouchables & Avengers at Radio City, Anaheim CA
11: 2012 - Stanley Turpentine turns 58
10: 1999 - Ken Boothe A Man & his Hits (Studio One, 1970) reissued on CD by Heartbeat USA - complete with OG Star Trek font!
9: 2012 - Bosstones free Buffalo
9: 1971 - R.I.P. Leslie Kong, aged 38
8: 1995 - the iconic Mashin' Up The Nation 1&2 combined on one DVS Media CD
6: 1999 - Dance Like The Devil - our first ever PYE Northern Soul collection found in cutout bin Geneva NY
6: 1962 - Jamaican Independence Day; see Lord Creator's "Independent Jamaica"
5: 2002 - Trojan UK Hits box set from Manifest Discs, Charlotte NC but by June '03 give away to Drew Wayne
5: 2000 - Silence de la Rue: We Don't Skare from RAE (Eric sends his later)
Eric Mearns
4: 2012 - Geno Washington on SMRSLT
4: 2012 - King Django and The Snails at the first Electric Avenue ska/reggae night at Characters NYC
4: 2009 - HP on http://duffguidetoska.blogspot.com
4: 2002 - lengthtoavoid turns 24; also Pietasters Club at Water St
1: 2009 - Vic Ruggiero's first solo show in Belfast, in support of The New Dark Ages
1: 2003 - MMB's Question The Answers for the second time in 3,223 days
Aug 1996 - Soundviews #42
Aug 1995 - SkaOi! #2
Aug 1993 - Skinhead Times #11
July
30: 1989 - Bad Manners/ Laurel Aitken/ Donkey Show/ John Roy & Gangbusters/ at Iguanas, Tijuana Mexico $10
28: 2012 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at The Garage, London. Only club show/ Tickets sell fast so grab yours now!
28: 1995 - "Play one from the archives!" Miggedys are a no-show Java Cows Canadaigua / Grounds Keeper Willy videotaped
28: 1985 - Rhyth-O-Matics at El Rio in SF CA
27: 2012 - Games of the XXX Olympiad begin with a nod to Millie Small & The Specials
27: 2002 - Bim at Oswego Harborfest
27: 1980 - English Beat records 15 tracks Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studio B, (Rockpalast)
25: 1946 - DJ 2Tone Ted Morris born on this day
25: 2004 - Ska Throwdown JumpUp's 10th Anniversary Sunday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
24: 2004 - Ska Throwdown JumpUp's 10th Anniversary Saturday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
23: 2004 - Ska Throwdown JumpUp's 10th Anniversary Friday at Bottom Lounge by DJ Chuck Wren
23: 1980 - English Beat on Rockpalast (German TV) it's recorded 16 tracks for your listening pleasure
21: 1989 - Bad Manners, Bim Skala Bim, Laurel Aitken, City Gardens Trenton NJ $5
18: 2012 - English Beat w/ Bigger Thomas at Sellersville Theater 24 W Temple Av Sellersville, PA $33, 8pm
17: 2012 - New Jimmy Cliff record out today, produced by Lint w/ Egyptienne Condensed Bold & Busorama by J BONNER
17: 2005 - R.I.P. El Cubano, Mr. Laurel Aitken, Godfather of Ska, High Priest of Reggae
16: 2012 - R.I.P. Jon Lord, aged 71; play the TSPO track from Y2K for more
16: 1995 - Miggedys, Skavoovie & Epitones, SHJ at the rebranded "Water Street Music Hall" + carnival posters of it
15: 2012 - Bim Skala Bim announce annual NE tour dates
15: 2008 - Reel Big Fish w/ English Beat/ Supervillans at HOB Cleveland OH
14: 1989 - Toasters & Panic (nka Bigger Thomas), City Gardens Trenton NJ $5
11: 2012 - Bosstones for $400 on Jeopardy #6418
11: 2006 - Ay Caramba! by Ska Cubano out today (on Cumbancha Records in USA)
11: 2006 - Light in the Attic Records presents Jamaica to Toronto 1967-74
10: 2012 - 2000 Tons of TNT Reggae Mysteria

10: 2012 - thirteenth annual Victoria Skafest runs four days
8: 1995 - Potsdamer Skafest (Berlin) openair: Pioneers, Arthur Kay & Originals (it's recorded STEPCD-088), Intensified +
7: 1995 - Potsdamer Skafest (Berlin) openair: Specials, Bim Skala Bim +
7: 1995 - SUMMERTIME? Busters, Live at Jazz Fest in Montreux Switzerland (it's recorded WESERLABEL 2490-2)
5: 1980 - R. Farnum turns 3, Look-In has Specials w/ Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy fame)
3: 2012 - Full moon 2:52 PM EST / R.I.P. Sheriff of Mayberry
July 2012 - Some Ska Band's first tshirts made
July 2011 - Uncut #171 cover is the Small Faces & Steve Marriott
July 2004 - JazzTimes Christopher Porter
July 1996 - Spin Magazine embarasses itself with "Rudeboy Awakening" their history of ska; Grant Thayer complains publicly
July 1994 - 737 issue #3 out
July 1989 - Summer of Ska in Zoot #12
June
29: 2012 - Fishbone at Nietzsche's, Allen Street Buffalo
29: 2002 - Blackouts, General Rudie, Amy Ryan Club at Water Street / Pool party?
28: 2012 - Toasters live 6/28/02 at CBGB Bowery Collection arrives in my mailbox!?
28: 1980 - Chords' No One is Listening Anymore aka LIVE AT THE RAINBOW recorded [L.P. in 1986]
27: 2003 - acquire The Jam Sound Affects remaster LRE 20:55
26: 1991 - Up yours! In a contract dated today, No Doubt licenses Moon Records to use their song
25: 2012 - Beats deluxe
24: 1992 - No Doubt 1st record release party at Whisky a Go-Go (Up Yours it's recorded)
23: 2012 - buncha ska bands in Buffalo NY
23: 1989 - UTs w/ Limbomaniacs and Psychefunkapus at the Fillmore; poster by Arlene Owseichik
22: 2008 - hpska.com selects pressuredrop playlist #111
22-23: 2012 - King Hammond & Rosslau Germany Ska Fest 2012

22-24: 1990 - London Int'l Ska Fest IV at Shoreditch Town Hall
22: 1948 - first ever ship of Jamaican immigrants to the UK
21: 2003 - Trojan Mod Reggae box, Bop Shop Records 16:13
21: 1980 - the pressure of being someone special: J. Dammers plays piano on this week's Melody Maker
19: 1999 - get Untouchables' Wild Child hip-o reissue disc from HOGs
19: 2012 - Toots' Unplugged on Strawberry Hill Live Acoustic CD out today
18: 2012 - so many records, so few JOYCE BOND ones
18: 1990 - Skankin' 'Round The World International Ska Compilation Volume #4 + orange press release
17: 2012 - Summer of Ska Tour begins at Sound Academy in Toronto
16: 1986 - Unicorn Records begins!
15: 1995 - Montreal Hour photoshop cover
13: 2008 - Pauline Black Prime Cuts 1/ Perfect Thyroid/ Notables/ King Apparatus' Marbles from FYE cutout room
12: 1989 - Potato 5 and Toasters both tape live albums at Town & Country II for Unicorn LPs
12: 1988 - Ska Party w/ Dekker, Aitken, Trojans, Floyd Lloyd, Forest Hillbillies, Deltones, Maroon Town at Brixton Academy 6£
9: 2012 - The Untouchables, Undercover S.K.A. at Red Devil Lounge 1695 Polk St. San Francisco CA 9pm 21+ $20
9: 2012 - Pauline Black on my [National Public] Radio

8: 2012 - Skannibal Party #10 out today on Mad Butcher Records
8: 1988 - Skankin' 'Round The World International Ska Compilation on LP & cassette
7: 2012 - discover firsthand Hoi Polloi was mentioned in the LISF 2012 event programme!
7: 1998 - Madstock IV, Finsbury Park
6: 1989 - Deltones Make Me Smile 12" and Just Kidding Watch the Fires out
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles live in Rochester / the release of HP4
4: 2012 - Madness play The Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace, London
4: 2004 - Mass Hysteria's Of Mistress and Men in Boston Globe by James Reed
4: 1993 - Cool McCool? Mark Tinson records Porkers' tracks at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (later used on GRUNT!)
4: 1988 - Operation Ivy live at Gilman Street it's recorded on a 7"
3: 2005 - Porkers + Unpaid Debt at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle NSW
3: 1995 - SKAPARTY 2 featuring the BoilUp, Offbeats, Screaming Orgasms at Antipodes Bar in Wellington NZ (it's recorded)
2: 2001 - Bloo, Angelo Moore, Mephiskapheles, Toasters, Bosstones at Bowery Ballroom NYC
June 1995 - Miggedys on BackFlash v2 #6
May
30: 1991 - Rhyth-O-Matics at the 16th Note in SF, CA
30: 1986 - Max Arranby sez Toasters, Beat Brigade +3 more at Danceteria; DJs Gene Merideth and Jeff Baker spin inbetween
28: 2012 - Prince Buster turns 74, and a readmag playlist
28: 1989 - the final Operation Ivy show is also the first Green Day show /at 924 Gilman St
24: 2001 - MMB free LaFayette Square Buffalo NY
23: 1979 - first half of Specials' BBC Sessions recorded
22: 1986 - Moon Records' Annual Slugathon, $5 at the Cat Club NYC (Thursday)
21: 1980 - Lip Up Fatty b/w Night Bus To Dalston out on Magnet 45
18: 2012 - Lee Scratch Perry at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo NY
18: 1997 - Bim's Universal disc reviewed in Boston Herald (Sunday)
17: 1980 - J. Dammers Record Mirror
16: 1996 - MMB, Amazing Royal Crowns +1 at The Strand in Providence RI $13
15: 2012 - Steakouts perform Lilac Festival 4pm
14: 1998 - R.I.P. Francis Albert Sinatra, aged 82
14: 1994 - Skatalites w/ Hepcat +DJ Doug Wendt at Slims in SF, CA
12: 2012 - Version City presents Stubborn Recs 20th Anniv Party Skinnerbox, HCS, Rocker T +5 more Knitting Factory NYC
12: 1990 - Toasters record "T-Time" at Z Studio, Brooklyn NY
10: 2012 - Sooner or later

10: 1980 - Getting beaten up is part of growing up: The Piranhas release their debut LP today
9: 2006 - Aggrolites make their major-er label thundercat debut on Hellcat/ Epitaph/ Sony; 19 tracks patented dirty reggae
8: 1981 - The Beat release their second, Wha'ppen? on Go Feet /Arista (working title was Dance Yourself Stupid)
7: 2012 - Dualers release their Prince Buster Shakedown disc on Phoenix City/Cherry Red Records
6: 1981 - Pigbag's debut 45 out: Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
5: 2012 - full moon 11:34pm EST
5: 2007 - 25 Years of Ska with the Toasters! also Briggs, Steadfast United +4 more Knitting Factory NYC
4: 2007 - Thommo Skalapeño & Seth Voorhees Slackers/ +4 California Brew Haus, its recorded
4: 2006 - Energy has been officially removed from the Lookout! catalog due to unpaid royalties
4: 1999 - Skanatra releases its self-titled full CD
4: 1997 - Magadog +3 Penny Arcade Rochester $7
3: 2012 - the Ska Olympics?! London International Ska Festival TwentyTwelve begins [only £122 + a £3 booking fee]
3: 2012 - R.I.P. Lloyd Brevett O.M., aged 80. Play any Skatalites or MR104CD for details
3: 1992 - London Int'l Ska Festival has Bad Manners, Trojans, Apollo 7, The Skanksters (featuring a young Erin Bardwell) £8
2: 1997 - Bim Skala Bim in The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre PA) by Rich Drees
2: 1992 - London Int'l Ska Festival has Selecter, Rico, Laurel Aitken, Intensified at the Robey £8
2: 1979 - fateful Special A.K.A. gig at London's Hope & Anchor; Madness' Chas & Lee happen to be in the crowd
1: 1997 - Bill Graham presents Bosstones Pietasters Swingin Utters at the Fillmore SF
1: 1992 - London Int'l Ska Festival has Special Beat, 100 Men, Club, BMJ at the Robey £8
May 2012 - Madness Speak Ska in Record Collector #401
May 2000 - Bosstones' Dicky cover of CMJ New Music #81
May 1996 - Everybody must get Record Collector #201

April
29: 2008 - Coolie Ranx in Grand Theft Auto IV, out today on PS3 and XBOX360; He voices Little Jacob, a Jamaican arms dealer
29: 2002 - Fishbone, Rochester NY $10 Monday night; we're busy gettin' our first Trojan Boxset (at Bop Shop) instead
29: 1991 - Soul Steppin' presents The Skeletones +1 at Bear's Lair Pub, UC Berkeley 9pm
28: 2012 - The Other Side Cafe (Boston MA) shuts its doors
28: 2012 - Viva Ska Vegas!

28: 2012 - Squeeze w/ English Beat Roseland
28: 2001 - Bosstones SUNY Geneseo Kuhl Gym; announce 3 consecutive nights at Milestones first week of June
27: 2011 - Everyday Sunshine screens at Geo Eastman House 360/365 Film Fest in Rochester, Q&A w/ directors afterward
27: 2004 - Ska Is Dead Tour, Steel MH 1509 Scottsville Road (+ we bring along Pat Steakout)
27: 2000 - Doc Awk offers to photoshop out the chain in Spider Nick Martielli's return to WSMH 35mm pics
27: 1998 - Ska Against Racism Tour w/Kemuri, Mustard Plug (deliver HP5 to Chris Demakes LTJ)
26: 1997 - Let's Go Bowling at Bluebird Theater (Denver), it's recorded by Tom Matott for Freeway Lanes, live AMR-024
26: 1996 - Allstonians return to Ritskeller taco bar; .JPEG by the Doc
26: 1989 - Mr. Review Walkin' Down Brentford Road on Unicorn longplayer today
23: 1995 - R.I.P. Cleanhead Gimura (TSPO frontman, brain cancer). Tribute here
23: 1983 - English Beat returns to American Bandstand just 10 days after they were in Rochester!

23: 1982 - N.Y.C. premiere of the Joe Massot-directed Dance Craze
22: 2012 - King Hammond's 50th birthday party at Buffalo Bar Islington, UK w/ Too Many Crooks, SkanX, Swagga +
22: 2003 - R.I.P. Nina Simone, aged 70
21: 2012 - Record Store Day Five
21: 2002 - JM Seidewand at 25
21: 1990 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra releases 1st single for Epic/Sony Japan, the superb "Monster Rock"
21: 1988 - Radio Daze (Operation Ivy) recorded live at KSPC FM, Claremont CA
19: 1980 - What we've got here is...failure to communicate Strother Martin hosts SNL #103 w/ musical guest The Specials
18: 2012 - R.I.P. Dick Clark shoeshine, aged 82
18: 2003 - Toasters Rochester (Easter weekend) by Fritz
18: 1988 - Toasters record "Thrill Me Up" in Brooklyn for their forthcoming (Skaloid Records) L.P.
18: 1986 - Bowie & Aitken meet Sade in fifties London!
17: 1996 - Chuck Jumpup mass email "Rare Odds & Ends List" to Skagroup listserv

17: 1995 - "Don't kick the girl in the front row" – a DM bootprint on RB Farnum's forehead /Bosstones Harro East Theatre 7pm
17: 1993 - Toasters en vivo Caracas Venezuela, it's recorded
16: 1999 - only ska ever at Token Joe's
15: 2012 - Bop Shop's grand reopening in a better neighborhood
15: 2004 - R.I.P. Phyllis Dillon, aged 59. "The Queen of Rocksteady" joined Duke Reid Studio in 1965
14: 2002 - No Doubt's Rocksteady tour stops at Barton Hall, Ithaca
12: 1986 - Ramones live UR's Alexander Palestra, Saturday 8pm
11: 1989 - Deltones record Owen Gray's "Running Around" at Studio 227 Finsbury Park for use on B-side of Unicorn PHZ-41
11: 1980 - Bad Manners' debut longplayer Ska N'B out today
10: 2012 - Doomsday! The Ultimate Mephiskapheles Unplugged Tribute at the Underground Lounge NYC, 7-9 PM
9: 1998 - H&R presents Slackers/ Rocksteady Commissary 3rd Rail Cortland, NY 16+, 9pm (Lucy Cummins buys our issue #5)
8: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim, Arsenals, Skaface at El Mocambo, Toronto ON
7: 1988 - Blue Chateau record their sinister dark-dealing "Steps In The Alley" at Delta Studios, Wilster/ Hamburg
7: 1980 - 2Tone Ska in TIME®, Toots & the Maytals' Chatty Chatty out on Island 45
6: 2012 - full moon
6: 1987 - The Key's Golden Age out on Unicorn
5: 2012 - Jim Marshall has died, all amps to 10 – A moment of Loudness for the Father of LOUD

5: 1985 - Strange Tenants at Pharoah's Nightclub in Adelaide, it's recorded
4: 2010 - Specials reunion featured in NYT
4: 2001 - R.I.P. Ed Big Daddy Roth. Juxtapoz has a ratfink cover for its April 2012 issue
3: 2004 - D. Trump hosts SNL #561 w/ musical guests Toots & the Maytals/ Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Bootsy, The Roots
1: 2004 - see Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad + Mountain Mojo Authority at Star Bar 123 Liberty Pole Way
1: 1991 - 2 Tone Easter Special: Buster's Bad Manners, Pauline's Selecter & Int'l Beat at the Ritzy, Nottingham (bank holiday)
Apr 1999 - Doll, a Japanese punk rock mag's cover story 'Ska Core Ska Punk Explosion'
Apr 1999 - Scootering #158 features Ronan O'Donnell & Gangsters, who just released A New Beginning on Beatville (D.C.)
Apr 1989 - Scootering #42 features Part 3 of Ska Story

March
31: 2012 - Rude Cat Festival in Salt, Spain: Mr. Review, Bad Manners, Dr. Ring Ding, Toasters, Mr Freak Ska. 20/25 Euro box
30: 2012 - This is a great blog!
29: 2003 - Ska Summit descends on a Las Vegas skatepark
29: 1982 - English Beat's third and final Peel Session for BBC
26: 2003 - Davids Hillyard and Hahn w/ Rocksteady Seven at Monty's Krown
26: 1990 - This Gun For Hire bonus track (East Side Beat) recorded live at the Cat Club, NYC
25: 1999 - Bim Skala Bim w/ John Ferry here; obtain Pilfers Oswego interview tape [10/10/98] for use in HP006
25: 1998 - HP5 completed!
24: 2004 - interview GW Pine in Buffalo NY, deliver HP8 to DS Hillyard
24: 1981 - Selecter w/ Au Pairs Hammersmith Palais
23: 1996 - Toasters/ Too Hectic Davis Gym, Alfred University
23: 1988 - Bad Manners record (Henry Mancini's) Baby Elephant Walk for use on a Unicorn compilation
23: 1967 - Prince Buster and Davy Jones together on the same small stage
22: 2011 - Aggrolites' Rugged Road out on CD
22: 2009 - The Sunday Times magazine (London Times) has Gavin Watson pics 6 pages on skinheads. His book is reissued
21: 2012 - Steakouts Water Street Music Hall
21: 2012 - Reggae in the UK on npr.org
20: 2012 - Lee Perry is 76
17: 2012 - PHZA-47 updated!
17: 1998 - Bosstones/ Pietasters' Wake Up Call Tour '98 Croatian Cultural Center, Vancouver BC
17: 1980 - Selecter, Holly & the Italians, Bodysnatchers at Hammersmith Palais
16: 1990 - L. Aitken & Derrick Morgan at Hackney Empire, London in support of their then-new Two Knights Unicorn 2XLP
15: 1980 - ain't it Dandy? get ready for The Bodysnatchers' debut single of TT9
14: 1997 - Jamaican Music employee discount 4:08pm
14: 1932 - George Eastman suicide, aged 77
13: 2003 - SAAB sticker? soon-to-be impresario Steven Ransel sees Slackers at Milestones
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Alex Dread; see Backy Skank's 2003 "The Smart Alec" / Skaville UK's "Dreader Than Dread" for greater detail
12: 2007 - Amy Winehouse Dave Letterman
12: 2003 - Toasters/ Skanktronic/ Hot Property at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland
11: 2001 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle announcement: Bosstones at SUNY Geneseo Kuhl Gym 4/28
7: 2001 - Al Barr is fairly outspoken
6: 2012 - NEW! Story Of Blue Beat 1961 Best In Ska (2CD) on Sunrise Records UK
5: 2012 - Caroloregians' Fat Is Back new album available via Do The Dog Music
3: 2012 - Saturday morning cartoons when Aquabats invade! 11am EST
3: 1989 - Ian Gandalf Profumo SCANDAL now a major motion picture with ska soundtrack compiled by GAZ
2: 1997 - Professionals, Sinker +1 at Penny Arcade, 5pm $5
1: 2012 - PHZA-14 added to the crate
1: 1996 - "This town has some of the best mohawks" MMB/ Bouncing Souls/ H2O/ Marc Fleming, Water Street 7pm
March 2012 - Record Collector #399 Bob Solly's feature on Georgie Fame, The Flamingo Club and the birth of Mod
March 1998 - Niklas presents One Step Beyond #4 (skazine Lund Sweden)
March 1980 - Beat Instrumental #160 Blondie cover, interview + a Ska Special 4 pages w/photos
February
28: 2012 - the FB3 on SMRSLT
28: 1993 - WBER benefit nite in the tradition of English ska greatness... Bad Manners w/ Scofflaws HBB, 18+
27: 1997 - take the Greyhound: King Chango haunts Ithaca NY
27: 1993 - Skalapalooza! [Skatalites - Toasters - Bad Manners - RTY - Scofflaws - Skunks] @ Studio 54 (nka Ritz) NYC, 16+ 8pm
26: 1992 - BossTones' more noise... tour concludes in Buffalo NY
25: 1994 - NYC mainstays Urban Blight come to the old old Milestones for last time
24: 2006 - Slackers, Flashlight Brown, Operatives, Mechatama $10-12 Club Infinity Williamsville, doors 7pm
24: 2006 - Pietasters Rochester Insider by Kimberly Greene (of 2/27 show)
23: 1984 - Times Union section C tells all about "The House That Armand Built"
22: 2006 - #538159 from Armand's
22: 2000 - miss Primus' Antipop tour stop at Harro East Ballroom. Interview on WBER FM though
21: 2012 - Toasters, Fever, Mrs. Skannotto, Nyxon at Dubland Underground $10-14, 8pm!
21: 1997 - New issue of Ska-tastrophe arrives!
21: 1991 - Busters All-Stars live at Gaz's
18: 2000 - Pressure Cooker Empire Brewing
18: 1989 - Toasters, Donkey Show (Unicorn E.P. out week before), Citizen X at Country Club Reseda; a weekend in L.A. 8pm
16: 1989 - Potato 5 live at Gaz's
15: 2012 - Hey UTs: reunion show!
15: 1990 - Ska Boom live at Gaz's
12: 1998 - Scofflaws, Pilfers touch the Third Rail in Cortland, NY w/photos by Mearns
12: 1998 - Pietasters, Spring Heeled Jack, 5head at WSMH Rochester
12: 1997 - STL SKA: Isaac Green & Skalars haunt Ithaca
12: 1997 - Dan Bindert's On the Town (Professionals feature) in City weekly
11: 2005 - Doc Awk recalls WRUR radio
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire Brewing
11: 1995 - Miggedys, Nerve Circus, Ansley Court at HBB
10: 2012 - Hooray it's Doug Schrank Day
10: 1999 - Skavoovie & the Epitones, Fenster 8pm at Little Brother's, Columbus OH $5-7
10: 1990 - Generations of Ska! [Skatalites - Donkey Show - LGB - Liquidators] @ San Diego State University. All ages $16.50
9: 1997 - Professionals, Snaggletooth, Mr. Fickle, Refuse & Resist + Danny Down in ARA Benefit at Tea House Artgallery
8: 2012 - VooDoo Glowskulls, Steakouts + more at Mohawk Place, Buffalo NY
8: 2000 - Mojo Records just mailed (Pilfers) Agua to all the modern rock/ alt radio stations in the USA
8: 1998 - Let's Go Bowling w/ Blue Collars at Roadkill Heaven Tulsa OK $8 7pm all ages
8: 1988 - Toots & The Maytals w/ Toasters City Gardens, Trenton, NJ
7: 2003 - English Beat live at the Royal Albert Hall it's recorded (20 song DVD of this is released 8/2005)
7: 1981 - Saturday Night Live #115 Jimmy Cliff performs
6: 1999 - find review of HP#5 in Skatastrophe #8 at Penn State Skafest III, State College PA
5: 1993 - Chris & King Apparatus come to old old Milestones
4: 2012 - PHZA-19 added to the crate!
1: 2012 - R.I.P. Don Cornelius, aged 75
1: 2005 - find review of HP#8 in Record Collector #306 at Lakeshore Record Exchange, 8:20pm
1: 2001 - Pilfers, Motives at Milestones
Feb 1998 - Alternative Press #115 Dicky Barrett
Feb 1994 - Alternative Press #67 United States of SKA-merica (all about Skavoovee tour) by Jo Ann Greene
January 2012
31: 2012 - R.I.P. Winston Sparks, aka King Stitt, aged 72
30: 2012 - TROJANUARY? Laurence Cane-Honeysett & Spectrum reissue of Club Reggae (TROJAN UK, 1971)
30: 1980 - Specials live at the Paradise in Boston, it's recorded. Some say the Rainbow in Denver instead
29: 2008 - aka Twitch auto accident I-490 eastbound
28: 2012 - Buddhahood's 4th annual January Thaw concert at Water St
28: 2006 - Toasters w/ Go Jimmy Go (Fernando Pacheco & Shon Gregory) Knight Club, Alfred University
27: 1997 - Bosstones, Shods, Pietasters at 7 Willow St. in Port Chester, NY
27: 1986 - Rhyth-O-Matics & Freaky Executives (Jay Lane on drums) at the I-Beam in SF, CA
25: 2012 - The magic of turning 40 = (MMB drummer) Joe "The Kid" Sirois
25: 2001 - Wakeling's Ithaca Beat Odyssey
25: 1980 - The Specials jetset to their first-ever U.S.A. date, at Hurrah, 36 W. 62nd Street, NYC
25: 1956 - Andy Cox (English Beat, FYC guitarist) born in Birmingham, UK
23: 2000 - Attack of the Planet Smashers (1997) from Borders Henrietta
23: 1995 - Bosstones prove it on the inside cover of CMJ #411
22: 1980 - (Dinsdag) it's Madness at Ancienne Belgique Rue Des Pierres Bruxelles 8:30pm
21: 1980 - Specials + Rico live, Paradiso Amsterdam, it's recorded
20: 2012 - Did someone say R.I.P. Winston Riley, aged 65
19: 2012 - Why wait? Eastman Kodak Co. goes chapter eleven
18: 2002 - HP fanmail by yvonne!
17: 1998 - Trojans record 'Snakecharmer'
16: 1982 - Jeannine Jones, age 9, has Bad Manners on the cover of Look-In
16: 1980 - Specials live at Markthalle, Hamburg it's recorded (German Import CD)
15: 1999 - Pietasters "party like it's 1999" Water St. Rochester NY. See here
14: 1984 - R.I.P. Ray Kroc, aged 81
14: 1965 - Georgie Fame's version of 'Yeh Yeh' released
12: 2004 - installment of WRUR FM Ska & Roots Emporium begins with Aquabats' Ska Boss
12: 1980 - (Zaterdag) Specials Ancienne Belgique Rue Des Pierres Bruxelles 8:30pm
10: 1991 - flyer by Dicky stuck to mailboxes, poles, buses, trashcans in Newbury Kenmore Harvard Square w/ Elmer's glue
9: 2001 - Apple itunes begins
8: 1981 - Lorraine TOTP
6: 2012 - Duff Steve sez New York Times uses hoi polloi in a sentence!
6: 1991 - Ska Fest '91 = 100 Men(UK) /Allsorts (Oz) /Liquidators (USA) Palomino Club N. Hollywood CA
3: 2004 - Young, Gifted & Black: story of Trojan Records in paperback from Barnes & Noble
3: 1991 - Mephiskapheles live debut is Hugo's on Long Island NY, Vic Rice plays bass
2: 2004 - Auld Lang Syne found on a Party Party Soundtrack (1982 Karussel Germany) cutout, FYE Eastview
2: 1998 - The Baghdaddies record 'Major Malfunction' for Gaz's Rockin' Records
2: 1965 - Don Drummond kills girlfriend (rumba dancer Marguerita), taken into custody
1: 1998 - Pilfers' self-titled CD out. Supposedly 20,000 copies sold primarily thru their website and live shows
January 2000 - The Porkers on Do The Dog #16
January 2000 - DC Vertigo comics presents Deadenders
January 1998 - Folk Roots #175 features Gaz Mayall
January 1995 - Seven-Thirty-Seven #4 out
January 1991 - The Noise #102 Bosstones on cover


December
31: 2010 - The Slackers beat snow to ring in new year on the West Coast, live at The Great American Music Hall San Francisco
31: 1995 - Dave Wakeling NYE at MoonDoggies San Diego CA
30: 1984 - Waterloo Station Presents Mod Nite w/ The Scene. DJ Captain Weems and W. Lee at Danceteria, 30 W 21st NYC
29: 1982 - Jamaica issues RN Marley postage stamp
28: 2002 - Rico & the Rudies (Trojan CDTRL361) + Ska All Mighty, both $5 used RAE
26: 1996 - Studio One/ Heartbeat's 1991 Ska Bonanza sixties ska 2CD from Media Play #8254 Ridgemont
26: 1995 - The Gathering issue #4 (Norfolk VA ska zine) out
26: 1988 - Operation Ivy somewhere in Sacramento, it's recorded
25: 2011 - Carols on 45!
25: 2006 - R.I.P. James Brown, aged 73
24: 1964 - Tommy McCook & Skatalites' present Bonanza Ska at the Bournemouth Club, Kingston JA 9pm EST
22: 2011 - R.I.P. William Duell, aged 88
22: 2011 - Suggs & Barso from Madness guest on absoluteradio.co.uk
22: 2004 - Garlic icecube?
22: 2000 - Suggs' I'm Only Sleeping/ No More Alcohol import singles, LRE
21: 2011 - Belle Stars' Hiawatha on SMRSLT! we get it 5/1/12
21: 2008 - Mudsharks Squalus Suculae (1995) from FYE Eastview
21: 1999 - Welcome To Beatville sampler, from Record Town Marketplace Mall, at 21:17
19: 2004 - If he clears one final medical hurdle, Army 1st Lt. William Reynolds III will be coming home for the holidays
19: 1986 - Paul O'Halloran benefit at The Rat (Boston MA), is to be the Bosstones' final appearance
17: 1995 - Specials MkII in Belfast, 23 tracks its recorded
16: 2011 - Pietasters, Slackers + 930 Club, Washington D.C. All ages, $15
15: 1982 - KYTD FM presents English Beat at Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara CA 8pm
15: 1970 - Blake Boy delivers at Lloyd the Matador's
13: 2002 - Godfather of Soul? Pietasters perform at WHFS Holiday Nutcracker Ball – as James Brown's back-up band!
12: 2011 - Expanded reprint of SOUNDS Dance Craze (the original 2 Tone book by Garry Bushell & Paul Hallam)
12: 1990 - Jackie Mittoo hospitalized
12: 1989 - PHZA-53 out
8: 2011 - Justin Hinds on SMRSLT!
6: 2011 - Sunspot Records UK reissue of Prince Buster's 1972 Sister Big Stuff on CD + LP, ebreggae.com
6: 2011 - Bosstones #9 out
6: 1995 - Rancid homecoming inna SF weekly
5: 1997 - Send Help? R.I.P. Stretch Armstrong, aged 7
5: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca NY & we listen to this en route
5: 1985 - Under Me Sleng Teng is cut at Prince Jammy's
4: 2003 - Rancid, Water St Music Hall
3: 2011 - LISF Winter Special: Christmas Double Bill w/ Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra, Dualers plus DJs tba, London 7pm
3: 2011 - Stranger Cole, Queen P, Delirians, Penny Reel, Hashishans, at The Joint in Los Angeles
3: 2011 - King Hammond direct from England! w/ the Hard Times backing and more at The Lake in Brooklyn NY
3: 1976 - CIA attempt on Marley's life
2: 2011 - Vic Ruggiero solo @ The Record Collector, Bordentown NJ
1: 2011 - new Selecter single, Skank Til Christmas b/w A Christmas Fable out via Vocaphone Records, cdbaby, itunes...
1: 1997 - New Yorker Magazine SKINHEADS: Sharpies-vs-Nazis
Dec 2011 - Record Collector #395 interviews John 'Teflon' Sims about his career at Chrysalis' art department
Dec 1999 - Joe Behan starts up Ska Patrol on NEAR FM in Dublin, Ireland
Dec 1995 - "Sleigh Ride" +3 more make up Suggs' Christmas E.P.
Dec 1995 - Undercover S.K.A. performs "March Slob" on television in SF
Dec 1995 - Ska-tastrophe issue #1 tabloid newsprint (2,000 copies) out
Dec 1988 - Boots n' Booze #2 (For Traditional Lemonheads) by Joel Loya of Santa Cruz, CA
Dec 1973 - Black Music issue #1 features Stevie, Isleys, Wailers, Sly Stone
November
30: 2000 - Bosstones, Mexican Cession, Dinkus 9 Sideshow Music Hall, Lackawanna NY
29: 2011 - remember when Rancid performed The Harder They Come for Tibet? new Jimmy Cliff EP produced by Lint out today
29: 1996 - Mearns & Macallister meet Big D
28: 2011 - Marco's interview with Caplis on the Bass (Desorden Publico at 25!)
27: 1982 - Urban Blight + Bop Apocalypse at CBGB 315 Bowery NYC
26: 2011 - Rochester NY current Skanksgiving portion
26: 2011 - Go Jimmy Go celebrates 15 years of rocking steady! Anna O'Briens Honolulu HI / 21+ / $8
26: 1983 - This Are Two Tone compilation UK 2 Tone CHR TT 5007 LP/CASS out in either pink or blue sleeve
25: 1997 - Neal's wheel fell off so we truck to Buffalo in Shotgun Jimmy instead; NYC SKA MOB!
25: 1987 - No Doubt (9 piece band) Thanksgiving Eve w/ Big Express, Crooks, Exception + TBA at Fender's Long Beach CA
24: 2011 - Ronnie Stackman has been spinning at Abilene three years and ten days!
24: 1999 - Mephiskapheles live in Cleveland Ohio, its recorded
24: 1995 - TURKEY JAM w/ Ground's Keeper Willy, Boutros Boutros, Initial Doubt, Al Beaman Band, + Lethargy. Club Zei 2pm
24: 1993 - Skavoovee Tour [Special Beat, Skatalites, Selecter, Toasters] hits Manhattan Center, NYC
23: 2011 - R.I.P. Barry Llewyn (Heptones), aged 64
23: 2007 - Prince Buster at Fairfield Halls, Croydon UK
22: 2011 - Ska Flames' drummer Shimura Hitoshi is 40 today
22: 1982 - War Crimes The Special AKA UK 2 Tone CHS TT23 7"
22: 1979 - Winnipeg Free Press (Manitoba, Canada): "The Specials mix punk, reggae music" by Robin Denselow
21: 1999 - Spider Nick & Maddogs Water St by Fritz
21: 1997 - Scofflaws, Varicoasters, and the new Franceska at Roseland Theater Portland OR
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso, aged 67
20: 1996 - Deston Berry (Hepcat) wants a Nintendo64 interview Ogden St. Buffalo / the release of HP3
19: 2011 - Jason Lawless' launch party for his MOONDUST imprint
19: 2011 - David Katz on Jimmy Cliff
19: 2011 - English Beat, Rudie Crew and Top Shotta Band, Irving Plaza NYC 7pm $27
18: 1989 - Milk & Cheese invite you to see The Steadys, Toasters, Let's Go Bowling, Potato 5 at CBGB, Bowery L.E.S. N.Y.C. 16+!!!
18: 1988 - Bim Skala Bim at Edible Rex 251 Old Concord Road, Billerica MA 01821
17: 2006 - Skatalites + Aggrolites + Le Chud at the Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach CA
17: 1995 - Murphy's Law, Toasters, Too Hectic - Water St. Music Hall
17: 1995 - Scofflaws w/ Desorden Publico (10th anniversary) at 1900 Wall St in Caracas, Venezuela
15: 1980 - Melody Maker "Tracking the new Selecter" also Neil Young, Dire Straits, SLF, J. Jackson, Bauhaus, PIL, Madness
14: 2004 - R.I.P. Errol Thompson, aged 55 - considered to be Jamaicas's greatest engineer
12: 2011 - Queen P and The Shifters at the Shop in Brooklyn
12: 1991 - Where'd You Go? E.P. out the first time
10: 2011 - Ken Kesey has been gone 10 years
10: 1985 - Rhyth-O-Matics present their Sound of Afro-Ska at San Francisco's El Rio
9: 1996 - Professionals' first show at Riverton Community Center
8: 1980 - what's a Sony Stowaway? Bad Manners on Record Mirror
5: 2011 - Skalloween with The Pandemics (as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) at The Blue Parrot Long Island
6: 2011 - Toasters, Obi Fernandez & Royal City Riot, at Highline Ballroom Manhattan, NY doors 6pm, concert 8pm, $12
6: 2009 - Adrian Young (No Doubt drums) at Gordon Field House, Rochester Institute of Technology!
6: 2007 - Energy reissued by Hellcat Records as a self-titled compilation album (1991) now in Digipak® format
6: 1995 - Specials' mk II Hypocrite CD single in board sleeve
3: 2011 - Trojan Lucky Sevens box set out
October
31: 2011 - It was a graveyard SMASH!
30: 2011 - PHZA-52 LP added to the crate
29: 2011 - Specials' Reunion Tour Farewell hits Coventry's Ricoh Arena
28: 2011 - Pietasters, World/Inferno Friendship Society Irving Plaza NYC 16+
27: 2011 - marks twenny years of Mustard Plug
27: 2011 - Duke Vin & The Birth Of Ska screening
27: 1979 - Specials' Odeon rooftop Sounds
25: 1984 - Desmond Dekker at the Wag in London
18: 2011 - Slackers Mohawk Place Buffalo NY
18: 2011 - new Fishbone EP Crazy Glue out
17: 1994 - Specials, Let's Go Bowling at Roseland Theater in Portland OR; Rico Rodrieguez MBE turns 60
15: 2011 - Ex-Morphine + Ska in Boston
13-15: 2011 - Skatalites, Toasters, Mr. T-Bone, Aggrolites, EST & many more at the 3rd annual MSF
11: 2011 - Toasters 30th Anniversary Tour stops at Mohawk Place, Buffalo NY
11: 1996 - The Specials free, Heckcher Park in Huntington, Long Island 8pm
11: 1989 - Unicorn PHZA-52 released; Skankin' Round The World #3 - Shot Black & White is only USA band onnit
8: 2011 - Primus returns to Rochester NY
7: 1989 - London Int'l Ska Festival III
6: 2011 - Millicent Dolly May Small can now collect social security
6: 1979 - Sounds reports on the upcoming 2Tone tour
6: 1966 - Millie is 20. Desmond Dekker records "007" arranged by Lyn Taitt
5: 2011 - R.I.P. Steven Paul Jobs
5: 1997 - Slackers, Venice Shoreline Chris, Adjusters & Step Lively Wetlands matinee $7, 1pm
3: 1981 - Bad Manners' Record Mirror & flexi!
2: 2010 - Leicester UK New Walk Museum
Oct 2011 - Vive Le Rock#4 cover The Specials + 2Tone past & present
Oct 2010 - Waxpoetics #43 the Reggae Issue & Gregory Isaacs
Oct 1994 - Record Collector #182 Butcher sleeve + mod/ ska rarities
September
30: 1980 - The Beat, live in Boston MA (17 tracks); also Ethernet specs published by Xerox working with Intel and DEC
28: 1997 - Articles, Magadog Rebound Ska Tour, Rochester NY
28: 1964 - The Real Jamaica Ska (BN 26119) Epic Records USA MONAURAL L.P. [Tracks jumbled up & reissued on compact disc in '93, '01]
27: 1980 - Specials Bracknell Sports Centre
26: 2010 - R.I.P. Johnny Edgecombe
26: 1980 - Specials' More Specials / Madness' Absolutely hit shops
25: 2010 - Ska Parade celebrates 20th Anniversary! Glass House, Pomona CA
25: 1987 - The Jam on cover of Goldmine #187
24: 2011 - Ska Brewing's 16th Anniversary Party and Brewer's Invitational 4-9pm MST
23: 1980 - Uprising tour, Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh / Marley's last performance
21: 1985 - "L.A.'s Untouchables Do It Themselves" in Billboard Magazine by Ethlie Ann Vaire
18: 2003 - Town of Irondequoit proclamation House of Guitars Day
16: 1997 - Ska Island compilation release pairs classic artists with young cubs/ wide distro; A major finally gets it right!
14: 2007 - Lily Allen & DJ Aaron Lacrate Crystal Ballroom Portland OR
11: 1997 - WRUR FM General Admission DJ's Liz Mazucci and Skazzy Jeff debut SKA BEETS dance Thursdays at freakazoid
9: 1997 - Heartbeat issue Skatalites' Foundation Ska, a 2 disc set
9: 1993 - Ska Flames at Gaz's London W1
9: 1989 - This is SKACID Rave: Potato 5 & Laurel, Longsy D, Rude Girls, Deltones + at Town & Country Islington London UK
9: 1974 - Toots & the Maytals at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London
7: 2008 - They call me Mr. Popcorn: R.I.P. Richard Wylie, aged 69
6: 1993 - Barney bashers start club
6, 7: 1982 - English Beat Peppermint Lounge NYC, $12
5: 1985 - Rhyth-O-Matics at the 16th Note SF, CA  9pm-midnight, $3
4: 2011 - Quicksilver Pro, Long Beach NY
4: 1982 - Peter Tosh & Heavy Manners at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago
3: 1992 - Intensified at Gaz's London W1
2: 1994 - Skankin' Pickle at 924 Gilman
Sept 2011 - Vive Le Rock #4 cover The Specials + 2Tone past & present
Sept 2004 - Discoveries #196 Collecting Nirvana + Hunting 45s in Jamaica
Sept 1997 - Alternative Press names Bim Skala Bim's Universal "Essential"
Sept 1980 - NY Rocker #31 features The Selecter
August
30: 2011 - Aaron Barrett, voice of Reel Big Fish, turns 37
30: 2011 - SKA-B-Q Naperville, Illinois
30: 1997 - Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the Strand, Providence RI 8pm by Tweeter Music
29: 2011 - Toots & the Maytals kick off their FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY TOUR at the Great Hall, Cardiff Wales UK
28: 2009 - Skaville UK w/ Jennie Bellestar, Swagga, Meow Meows at Fiddler's Elbow NW5
28: 2007 - Toots' release Light your Light with Rochester's Mike Cacia as executive producer
28: 2000 - Specials' Sterotypical A's B's Rarities compilation out
28: 1983 - Tommy McGloin nutty with a videocamera
27: 1996 - maybe you heard Sublime's second single, 'What I Got'?
27: 1996 - King Chango s/t out on David Byrne's Luaka Bop imprint of Warner Bros
27: 1989 - SKA EXPLOSION III: Judge Dread, Hotknives, Loafers, Riffs, AKO, Skaboom, Winston & Churchills. Underworld London
26: 1981 - 8pm Berkeley Community Theatre Odin Productions presents Peter Tosh (Wanted Dread & Alive) + special guest
25: 1981 - 8pm Circle Star Theatre Odin Productions presents Peter Tosh (Wanted Dread & Alive) + special guest
25: 1979 - The late Don Drummond considers Peter 1 day old
24: 1989 - Natural Rhythm, live at Gaz's
24: 1969 - Johnny O. gets on a plane and leaves Jamaica ten years; sleeve to Come Back Darling employs Davida typeface
23: 1994 - Dub 56 released
22: 2006 - Radiodread out
22, 23: 2003 - Toots & the Maytals, Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach CA
22: 2002 - MEGALITH founded in Norman, Oklahoma
22: 1995 - Rancid's outcome of the wolfs
22: 1965 - "Skatalites Are No More" reads one headline. This break up comes after just 14 months together
21: 2007 - Pietasters' All Day on Indication label
19: 2011 - SUPERSKA at Sally O’Brien’s in East Somerville MA
19: 1990 - Woodska '90 Guerneville CA concludes: 22+ bands incl Skankin' Pickle, Rudiments, Specs
18: 1994 - Skunks' Mixed Nuts release party at Black Cat Club in D.C. - by June '95, it's in the Moon catalog as MR040
18: 1992 - 90.7 FM welcomes Toots & The Maytals + DJ Mistifiya!, Freedom Band to Roseland Theater in Portland OR
18: 1990 - Woodska '90 Guerneville CA continues: 22+ bands incl Skeletones, NY Citizens
17: 1990 - Woodska '90 Guerneville CA begins: 22+ bands incl King Apparatus, LGB, No Doubt
17: 1980 - Empire Strikes Back opens at the London Odeon
16: 2008 - R.I.P. Dizzy Moore (Skatalites trumpet) aged 69
16: 2005 - Madness' Dangerman Sessions Vol 1
16: 2003 - Miasmics/Mass Hysteria, the release of HP8
15: 1992 - R.I.P. Jackie Edwards. His 2005 Trojan collection employs Davida typeface
14: 2003 - Richard Jobson's 16 Years of Alcohol out!
13: 1983 - Untouchables & Avengers at Radio City in Anaheim CA. Gwen's 13
12: 2007 - J Bonner quits Aggrolites
12: 2000 - first Victoria Ska Festival a one-day event at Market Square, Victoria BC
12: 1993 - 100 Men live at Gaz's London NW1
11: 2011 - RBF Thu Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
11: 2011 - David Ian "Joe" Jackson turns 57
10: 1998 - Buster Bloodvessel (wears a Moon Ska Europe jersey) in The Sun's Sally Ann Volk Monday Slimming Club!
8: 2009 - English Beat at the Rock Theater Oklahoma City OK
8: 1980 - English Beat are donating all proceeds from today's single, Best Friend b/w Stand Down Margaret to CND
7: 2011 - London's burning
7: 2003 - Charlie Hunter Trio, Manhattan Square Park Rochester NY
7: 1971 - Dave Barker & Ansel Collins' Double Barrel peaks 22 on US chart
6: 2011 - Tokyo Ska Jamboree #3 with TSPO & Fishbone, Blue Beat Players, Oiskallmates
6: 2006 - Ska Cubano on NPR! & Aggrolites, Chris Murphy Combo [sic] Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach CA
6: 2003 - Jimmy Cliff awarded the Order of Merit (O.M.)
6: 1962 - see Lord Creator's "Independent Jamaica" or Derrick Morgan's "Forward March" for more
6: 1929 - Mike Elliott born in JA
4: 2011 - Pauline Black (Selecter)'s hardback memoir Black by Design published
4: 1985 - UB40 at Santa Fe NM's Paolo Soleri Amphitheater
3: 2009 - English Beat w/ Reel Big Fish at the Regency in San Francisco
3 1996 - George Carlin w/ Dennis Blair at FLPAC 8pm $26
August 2011 - Uncut #171 presents maximum R&B, the Who, + Specials Ghost Town revisited
August 1971 - The Best of The Wailers is not a compilation album
July
30: 1993 - Entertainment Weekly #181's Ska Steady is a UB40 article
29: 2011 - Jamaican record cover design legacy
28: 2005 - Clancy Eccles' obituary appears in Rolling Stone
26: 2000 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's Full Tension Beaters out on Avex JP (3 years later licensed to grover.de)
25: 1946 - Los Angeles' DJ 2Tone Ted Morris born on this day
24: 2011 - Lynval Golding (Specials/Fun Boy 3/Pama Int'l) is 60
24: 2001 - Slackers NPR
23: 2011 - R.I.P. Amy Jade Winehouse, aged 27 - scroll down to 3/12/07 news for more
23: 1999 - R.I.P. Justin Yap, aged 55
23: 1996 - Various Artists Closer Than You Vol. 1: Best of Florida Ska, out on Moon Ska NYC
20: 2007 - Rico Rodrieguez awarded MBE from the Queen for services to music
20: 1996 - Toasters w/Jack Ruby + J.C. Superska 7 Willow Port Chester NY
20: 1984 - General Public in a Canadian newspaper
20: 1969 - we're on a space race baby!
18: 1983 - Skatalites reunion the double live Stretching Out captured at Blue Monk Jazz Gallery Kingston JA
18: 1968 - Alex Désert (Hepcat) born
17: 2005 - R.I.P. El Cubano, Mr. Laurel Aitken – The Godfather of Ska, High Priest of Reggae
16: 1995 - Miggedys, Skavoovie & Epitones, SHJ at the rebranded "Water Street Music Hall"
16: 1990 - George Marshall's Phoenix City Records release the massive 2LP "Max The Dog Says... Do The Ska!" (now sells for $50)
13: 2002 - Legends of Ska, Night 2 Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto Ontario Canada
13: 1955 - the late Pablo Falconer born
12: 2011 - New album from Montreal PQ's #1 skaband, Descent into the Valley of the Planet Smashers!
12: 2007 - Culture clash all things considered
12: 2002 - Legends of Ska, Night 1 Palais Royale Ballroom Toronto Ontario Canada
12: 1994 - Moon Records' release Skarmageddon, an epic 2CD unification of USA bands
12: 1990 - Gangster Fun St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI
12: 1939 - Lloyd the Matador born in Kingston
10: 2011 - Sunday papers?
British tabloid News of The World collapses (after 168 years) amid scandals.
10: 2000 - Locate a copy of American Playhouse
9: 2011 -
Heather Augustyn to read from her book Ska: An Oral History at Quimby's Chicago
9: 2002 - Selecter's Trojan Songbook #3 out on Trojan Sanctuary
9: 1991 - Selecter at POWERHAUS London, 15 track boot
8: 2011 - R.I.P. Betty Ford, aged 93. See the Ska'd For Life (Cornwall, UK 1998) track for more detail.
8: 2011 - Blackouts reunion, SUNY Geneseo
8: 1997 - Brown Album released. Professionals, Skavoovie & Epitones Haunt Ithaca, $4
7: 2011 - stella sodorky turns 34
7: 1984 - Skatalites Reggae Sunsplash at Crystal Palace London, some w/Prince Buster
6: 2003 - Beat / Bad Manners / Neville Staples at Rock City Nottingham
5: 2011 - 12th Annual Victoria BC Skafest
5: 1990 - iconic pink Club Ska '67 (most recently issued as 1980 LP) released on Island/Mango compact disc
4: 2011 - Leggo Skanga! Rupie Edwards is 66 today
4: 2009 - Kid British release Our House is Dadless single from the forthcoming CD
4: 1992 - Special Beat at Pavilion Theatre, Hemel Hempstead
4: 1988 - Sublime plays its first show, at a club in Long Beach CA
3: 2003 - partial Miggedys reunion, Bug Jar
3: 2001 - T-Leaf Records (Various Artists: A Full English Breakfast compilation) is apparently defunct
3: 1993 - Ska On A Summer's Day CD recorded live at Ska Explosion '93 Hibiya Yagai Ongaku Do, Tokyo Japan
2: 2011 - CD release party for The Steakouts at House of Guitars
2: 2011 - Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra plays a free gig as part of the Bermondsey Carnival, 5:15pm GMT
1: 1995 - R.I.P. Wolfman Jack, aged 57. Also Albany ska-core Can't Say at old Milestones w/ Veins debut
1: 1993 - Denton, TX's Grown-Ups have a fairly big article in a Dallas weekly
1: 1991 - Heartbeat Records release Original Club Ska: Best of Studio One on CS/CD/LP
1: 1963 - Roddy Bottum (keyboards, Faith No More) born
1: 1945 - Debbie Harry (Blondie) born
July 1997: Alt Press #108 reviews Isaac Green & Skalars' Skoolin'
July 1996: Spin Magazine embarasses itself with Rudeboy Awakening, their history of ska; Grant Thayer complains
July 1983: Bim Skala Bim forms and plays its first show two weeks later
July 1973: Jimmy Cliff part of Jamaica: the Wild Side of Paradise in RS139 (UK cover only)
June
30: 1979 - Matthew Paul Miller (bka Matisyahu) is born in West Chester, PA
30: 1977 - first Madness gig
28: 2002 - Toasters' Bowery Collection recorded at CBGB, L.E.S., NY, NY
28: 1998 - Love & Affection release party w/ Bim Skala Bim at Wetlands NYC
28: 1978 - Clash "Out on Parole Tour" at Friars Aylesbury; Automatics (Special AKA) open

27: 1999 - Toasters' 20th Anniversary Show at Wetlands w/ Lionel (Undercovers, Israelites open)
27: 1989 - Laurel Aitken's 12" Everybody Ska b/w Skinhead on Unicorn
27: 1935 - the late, great bandleader Byron Lee born in Jamaica
26: 1980 - "The Selecter's working-class party" by James Henke, Rolling Stone #320
25: 2004 - night of big fire at the old Kleen-Brite factory; we drive around looking at smoke & 90.5 FM plays "Ghost Town"
25: 1988 - R.I.P. Jimmy Soul, aged 45
25: 1987 - Floyd Lloyd at Gaz's London W1
24: 1985 - Toasters w/ City Beat, Second Step, Unseen, Steady Action at Reggae Lounge, 285 W. Broadway NYC
23: 2011 - Ozomatli (Party in the parkinglot)
22: 2008 - R.I.P. George Denis Patrick Carlin, aged 71
21: 1995 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra release Grand Prix on Epic Records
21: 1953 - Horace Swaby (bka Augustus Pablo) born
20: 2008 - Skatalites free RIJF East & Alexander; Lloyd Knibb reads HP8 two thousand feet from my doorstep
20: 1999 - Toasters, Buford O' Sullivan, Bigger Thomas at Wetlands NYC
20: 1980 - Blues Brothers in theatres / Cherry Red Records release compilation LP Sent From Coventry
18: 2011 - Club Ska & Attic Promotions present SYMARIP at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, London UK
17: 2011 - Elvis is in the XRIJF building!
17: 2011 - Slackers' 20 year anniversary, party at the Bowery Ballroom
16: 1999 - Toasters, live in Rochester 21+ Bug Jar / the release of HP6
16: 1988 - Maroon Town at Gaz's
15: 2011 - Mailorder is fun: Mike Park's Asian Man Records celebrates 15 years
15: 2007 - Toots & Maytals free RIJF East & Alexander
15: 1995 - Oh Skanada! Montreal Hour cover story on Stomp Records & the new face of Ska by Jamie O'Meara
13: 2011 - Steakouts at Bug Jar
13: 1999 - Mephiskapheles, Inspecter 7, Atwood 9 at Wetlands NYC
12: 1989 - Potato 5 and Toasters both tape live albums at Town & Country II for Unicorn
11-13: 2011 - Reggae On The Ridge festival, Prattsburgh NY
11: 2011 - Lily Allen's wedding
11: 2011 - Eric Donaldson turns 64
11: 2002 - Selecter perform the Trojan Songbook Vol. II
10: 2011 - Toasters' 30th Anniversary Tour, Dubland UG
9: 2011 - Django propaganda
8: 1999 - Wailers' vault Destiny: Rare Ska Sides From Studio One out on Heartbeat Records
7: 2006 - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra release Wild Peace on Cutting Edge Records
7: 2002 - Toasters, Blackouts, Sluts, Purrs WSMH by Fritz
7: 1998 - Stubborn All-Stars, Skavoovie, Skalars, RTY, Velveteens at Wetlands NYC
7: 1996 - Jeff Vice, SLC
6: 1999 - Toasters, Edna's Goldfish, Skanatra at Wetlands NYC
6: 1988 - Toasters article by Cathy Hainer in New York Magazine
6: 1964 - My Boy Lollipop reaches #2 in the U.S.A.
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles live in Rochester / the release of HP4
5: 1992 - Bim Skala Bim, Live at The Paradise Boston MA, it's recorded
4: 1988 - Toasters at Tompkins Square Arts Festival

3: 2011 - R.I.P. Doctor Death, aged 83. See Square Roots' Dr. K, Pilfers' Dr. Kevorkian or Suicide Machines for more detail
3: 2011 - National Doughnut Day (73rd annual)
3: 1998 - Enclosed is your premiere issue of Rude International magazine, by Johnny Vegas & co.
2: 2011 - Jammin' For Jamaica benefit 6pm
2: 1988 - Alton Ellis at Gaz's London W1
June 2011 - Record Collector #389 Iron Maiden wherein Michael de Koningh picks 51 skinhead reggae rarities!
June 2001 - Sanctuary Group Ltd. paid £10.3 million for Trojan Records UK!
June 1996 - Flipside #102 reviews MR062 Skavoovie & Epitones' Fat Footin'
June 1981 - The Face #14 Ranking Roger & Beat

May
31: 1986 - Fine Young Cannibals rec'd live at the Ritz, CD unofficially released in '92 on the Not Guilty label
28: 2011 - Prince Buster "Voice of the People" is 73
28: 1995 - General Public live at the Heritage?
28: 1982 - Belle Stars' version 'Iko Iko' released on 45; it won't chart well until Rain Man 1989!
27: 1995 - Desmond Dekker scheduled at Tramps NYC
24: 2008 - R.I.P. Jimmy McGriff, aged 72
24: 1980 - Specials AA single 'Rat Race' as TT11
22: 1995 - Oolooloo, D.C.'s Pietasters' debut Moon CD released
21: 2007 - Buck & Chuck gate E8 St. Louis Airport!
21: 2002 - Selecter perform the Trojan Songbook Vol. I
20: 2011 - Let's Go Bowling celebrate 25th Anniversary with a show at the Fulton 55 in Fresno CA
18: 1999 - R.I.P. Augustus Pablo, aged 45
18: 1997 - Bouncing Souls/ Pietasters Main St Armory Rochester
18: 1993 - Larry Stessel parties with fanfare on a mighty major Mercury Record
12: 2011 - Skatalites' drummer Lloyd Knibb passes away (6:40 pm EST), aged 80. He is credited with inventing the ska beat
11: 1989 - Hotknives + Skandal at the Ska Bar London
11: 1981 - Bullets couldn't kill Marley, but cancer did (12:30pm EST)
8: 1989 - Blue Beat Records Ltd. presents crumpled beercans via the LP/cassette of London Int'l Ska Festival '88
7: 1986 - Toasters, Beat Brigade, In the Red, at the World NY, NY
7: 1980 - LKJ's Bass Culture released in England
6: 2011 - Mearns is 34 today. Buster Bloodvessel in Buffalo? Club Infinity Williamsville $15
5: 1998 - R.I.P. Tommy McCook, aged 71
5: 1997 - Bim Skala Bim's Universal in CMJ
5: 1991 - Chaos in Skaville copyright The Skunks
4: 2004 - R.I.P. Sir Coxone Dodd
4: 1983 - 7:30 am, a young Toasters leave NYC's A7 Club with $30 and a black eye
2: 2011 - Glen Dizzybeat likes our Unicorn record!
2: 2011 - Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is 26
2: 1999 - R.I.P. Tatsuyuki Aoki [TSPO drums] suddenly, aged 32. Struck by train at Gotokuji station yard, Tokyo
1: 1983 - Bad Manners headline Mayday Festival in Victoria Park, Hackney London
May 2011 - Boston's newest supergroup!
May 1998 - Anni Layne's "The Ska Parade Is Coming To Town" article in RS787
May 1980 - Chalkie Davies photograph of J. Dammers ascending staircase on The Face #1

April
30: 2011 - Water Street Music Hall has The Pietasters w/H.R. (Bad Brains) 8pm 16+ w/ID $10 adv / $15 dos
30: 1996 - Pietasters' Strapped Live! issued as MR081
30: 1987 - Trojans & Maroon Town at Gaz's W1 London
29: 2002 - Our first Trojan Box Set is the skinhead reggae one (Bop Shop Records, $18)
29: 2000 - foiled again! No Sports' Succe$$fools, Record Archive East with 2 booklets!
28: 1999 - First version of this site up

28: 1996 - Club Ska '67 from FYE Eastview 4:13pm, now OOB
28: 1988 - Desmond Dekker at Gaz's
27: 2011 - 7pm 360 365 film fest has Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
26: 1998 - Universal Madness recorded live at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles
26: 1996 - Allstonians' taco bar

26: 1980 - Headline's Baldhead Revolution cover/ centrespread of Black Echoes
26: 1980 - NME "Skankness is so bracing" with Bad Manners' Buster Bloodvessel
22: 2010 - The Specials reunion Terminal 5 NYC
22: 1927 - Lorenzo Aitken born in Cuba
21-24: 2011 - an Historic event by all counts, londoninternationalskafestival.co.uk!
21: 2001 - purchase OoLooLoo at Rotate This W. Queen Street, Toronto
21: 1990 - East Bay Wrecking Crew scooter rally as part of the huge Berkeley Int'l Earth Day Ska Festival
21: 1989 - Grounation Day!
19: 2011 - Big Audio Dynamite NYC
19: 1997 - Skarnival '97: IGatS, FIF, Model Citzen, 3 Ball Combo at the Bluebird Theater in Denver, CO
16: 1997 - Isaac Green Q&A in The Onion Vol 31 Issue 14
16: 1949 - Ansel Collins born
15: 2011 - Derrick Morgan's Forward March (TRO-38, 1970) just $5 at Archive East
15: 2002 - Bad Manners, Slaves, Inciters at DNA Lounge, SF CA $15
15: 2001 - R.I.P. Jeffry Hyman aka Joey Ramone, aged 49
14: 1965 - Millie performs on ABC-TV's Shindig! with her smash version of 'My Boy Lollipop'
13: 1993 - Snow certified platinum by RIAA
13: 1990 - Ska-tillating Melodies by Rosalind Salup in Trentonian re: Randy Ellis & Bigger Thomas
13: 1989 - Potato 5 gig in Glasgow, Scotland
13: 1989 - Skadows + The Tribe at the Ska Bar (Half Moon Club, Lower Richmond Rd London SW15)
13: 1983 - English Beat University of Rochester – R.E.M. opens
11: 2011 - Neville E. Staple is 56 today
11: 2011 - Get aboard that TRAIN
11: 1997 - cassette upgrade: Island/ Mango Intensified! 1962-66 on CD from Borders
11: 1985 - Alton Ellis at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
11: 1981 - Belle Stars by Adrian Thrills in the NME
7: 1980 - Skatalites + Laurel Aitken + Mobster, Hastings Pier Ballroom (bank holiday, £2)
7: 1980 - Jay Cocks' full page on the 2 Tone craze in Time magazine USA
7: 1999 - Legend has sold 10 million copies and you probly own one
7: 1984 - J. Dammers rips it up + spray can culture in Record Mirror
6: 2002 - Beat This! hits compilation 8:59pm Ridgemont Media Play, now OOB
6: 1999 - HP bumperstickers made (in Reno)
4: 2011 - Kimiyoshi Nagoya, trumpet for TSPO, is 43 today
4: 2011 - radioland's Dr. Awkward is 56 today
4: 2010 - Specials reunion in New York Times
4: 1970 - Every Wednesday the papers came out / the Record Mirror / best thing about / Do you remember the Reggae page?
1: 2011 - marcoonthebass.blogspot.com turns 3 today
1: 2001 - Apirat Infahsaeng in Rochester
1: 1996 - Skavoovie debut CD Fat Footin' (Moon Ska) out to + reviews in CMJ, Son of Skam #5, Impact Press
1: 1995 - Toasters' Dub 56 released for the rising sun by Jimco Japan JICK-89601
April 1999 - Lip Up #9 (Houton, TX) Scofflaws interview, Donkey Show, Pilfers, more
April 1981 - The Face #12 has Adam Ant, Beat, Selecter
April 1980 - Specials featured in USA's Relix
April 1980 - Specials featured in USA's Creem
March
31: 1984 - UB40's Red Red Wine peaks at #34 on Billboard chart, but later goes to #1 in 1988
31: 1983 - Electric Avenue 45 by Eddy Grant released

30: 2011 - Dick the Dancing Record is 65
30: 1990 - Toasters, Bim Skala Bim at City Gardens Trenton NJ
30: 1989 - Hotknives at Gaz's W1
29: 1990 - Joseph Woelfel Inside Beat Weekly re: Bigger Thomas
28: 1982 - Beat's third John Peel Session BBC
28: 1981 - NME cover is Movie Madness - all about filming their Take It or Leave It biopic
27: 1997 - The Riffs live at Gaz's
27: 1981 - Belle Stars London Hope & Anchor
26: 2006 - Dave Wakeling's Beat (w/ Michael P. Ambrose), WSMH Rochester
24: 2001 - Apple introduces the OSX operating system for Macintosh
24: 1990 - Hepcat/ Toasters / Let's Go Bowling/ Dance Hall Crashers at the Country Club in Reseda, 8pm $14
23: 1996 - Toasters Alfred U
22: 1993 - MMB cover the UK with plaid Zippos of Ska-core, The Devil & More E.P.
22: 1980 - UK mod compilation LP Uppers on the South Downs is a.k.a. Oh No I Just Can't Control Myself for Canada
21: 1997 - Bim Skala Bim's Universal on page 3 of the Boston Phoenix
21: 1997 - Spring Heeled Jack in Iowa State Daily by Ben Jones
21: 1980 - Madness' Don't Quote Me on That
20: 1998 - Moon Ska Records present SXSW showcase w/ Scofflaws, Skalars, Robustos, Skoidats, Skanic & Mobtown 6:30p whew!
19: 2010 - Mike Fyler's Two Ton(e) Ska, El Kabong, Subsoil - Montage Music Hall Rochester
19: 1980 - Graduate Elvis Should Play Ska
18: 1981 - Bad Manners' Just a Feeling 45, reissue 2011
17: 1990 - Bigger Thomas record release party City Gardens Trenton NJ ((Skatalites headline!))
17: 1988 - Laurel Aitken & Pressure Tenants at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
17: 1980 - Selecter, Holly & The Italians, Bodysnatchers "Pressure Tour" hits Hammersmith Palais 7:30p, £3
16: 2011 - Gosh, it's thirty years since!
16: 1989 - Little Chief (PHZA-43) live from Leeds at Gaz's W1
15: 2011 - a new Maroon Town disc! First recordings since 1997's Don Drummond
15: 2008 - R.I.P. Mikey Dread
14: 1991 - Rico & his band live at Gaz's
13: 1998 - R.I.P. Alex Dread; see Backy Skank's 2003 tune "The Smart Alec" for greater detail
13: 1980 - Clash premiere their film Rude Boy
12: 1980 - BBC TV Arena Specials in barbershop for Rude Boys Come Back segment
11: 1990 - Greetings from Asbury Park Press? Bigger Thomas by Matty Karass
10: 1981 - Tiswas TV features Bad Manners' Flan Flan
9: 1994 - MU330 in Daily Star SW Texas State University by John Nelson
9: 1987 - Bad Brains Skibo Ballroom CMU.EDU
8: 1990 - Natural Rhythm live at Gaz's
7: 1995 - Toasters, The Business +1 at Chameleon Club in Lancaster PA $6
7: 1989 - Deltones' Stay Where You Are, an update of the Gloria & Dreamlets classic on PHZ-34
7: 1980 - Island issues Club Ska '67 (again) and More Intensified! compilations. Trojan rush reissue full Skinhead Moonstomp LP
6: 1980 - Bad Manners + support, Camden High Street
5: 1997 - Mailorder is fun
4: 2000 - either LGB Stay Tuned or Busters' Make a Move from Soundgarden II Geneseo
3: 2011 - R.I.P. Steve 'Cardboard' Eaton, aged 51
2: 1989 - Trojans at Gaz's W1
1: 1996 - Bim Skala Bim in San Bernadino, CA Weekend section
Mar 2005 - Mojo #136 Inside Studio One
Mar 1999 - Rude International #3 Joe Strummer
Mar 1998 - Moon Skazette try our ska its delicious bonus: rude drawings of Cartman schweet.
Mar 1998 - Musician #232 Bosstones cover
Mar 1984 - Jamming #18 Jerry Dammers
February
27: 2006 - Pietasters 14607
26: 1994 - Mike Boehm reviews Sublime Robbin' the Hood in L.A. Times
26: 2011 - Skatalites, Itals, + Ronnie Stackman's Lawnmowers, advance tix $18, 9pm Haunt Ithaca all ages
25: 2011 - Toasters (30 years tour) + Steakouts + more at Haunt in Ithaca, $10 advance 18 plus
24: 2004 - R.I.P. Estelle Axton, aged 85
23: 2007 - Slackers' Big Tunes! Hits & Misses 1996-06 released for Japan
23: 1990 - N.J. Reggae Jam at Club Bene in Sayreville w/ Jah Love, Bigger Thomas, + Johnny Youth
23: 1980 - MELODY MAKER cover feature is "New Ska: Pauline's Story" – memoir in 2011...
22: 2007 - nostalgic Paul Weller blurb in Rolling Stone
21: 2011 - Wasted Days out in buyable format 10 years; but the otherwise respectable band used Mac OS9 Sand font. *PUKE!*
21: 2011 - Pressure Drop UK reissues Bad Manners' three and four on CD with bonus cuts
21: 1981 - NME article on sound systems
19: 1988 - Dutch Ska Festival is Mark Foggo's Skasters, Skaos, Trojans 9pm at De Melkweg, Amsterdam
18: 1993 - one of the rude boy brothers died in jail R.I.P. Patrick Waite (Musical Youth), aged 24
15: 2011 - Ali Campbell is 52
15: 1981 - Joe Massot (The Song Remains The Same) produces ska films now!
13: 2011 - Jump Up Chicago IL launches newest site – revamp in twelve years
13: 1990 - vintage Unicorn band Strange Fruit tapes 'Over The Border' at Pan Pot Studio Rome, Italy; lyrics swiped from T.S. Eliot poem
12: 2000 - 10:49am READ #16 is complete
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire
11: 2000 - 10:45am R.I.P. Lord Kitchener, aged 77
11: 1990 - Nelson Mandela freed
10: 2003 - Prince Buster w/ Determinations live in Japan; captured by Drum n' Bass Rec / Rock-A-Shacka
6: 2011 - High in his mid-sixties? RN Marley O.M. woulda been 66 today
6: 2004 - R.I.P. Richie Restivo, aged 19. Knife fight in parking lot at Rockhurst Jesuit High in KCMO, see Uprights on Still Standing for more
5: 1993 - Chucklehead w/ Me, Mom & Morgentaler at the U of R
5: 1987 - Maroon Town live at Gaz's Rockin' Blues, Gossips 69 Dean Street London W1
3: 2004 - Upsettin' Ernestos, second of its kind live in NL, documents Slackers w/Capo doing multiple Lee Perry tracks!
Feb 2001 - Pulped #15 formally breaks the Moon Ska NYC fold
Feb 1974 - Black Music #2 is a Reggae Special w/ Dandy Livingstone, Maytals, etc.
January
31: 2011 - Less Than Jake, Water St Music Hall, Rochester NY
28: 1980 - Lambrettas' Poison Ivy out on pinball wizard 45
28: 1941 - King Tubby born in Kingston, JA
27: 2001 - Laurel Aitken backed by Rico & Freetown; captured Live at Club Ska (Trojan CD uses same ITC Pioneer as Echoes above)
27: 1998 - Skalars, Orbit Room Dallas TX
26: 1980 - The Beat, UB40 & The Akrylykz at Camden's Electric Ballroom, 7:30
26: 1980 - a rather large Selecter feature in Sounds "Pressure & Slide"
25: 2002 - Shanty Dan thanks HP onstage at their 9pm Rochester show; a big deal because BIM was one of our early inspirations
25: 2001 - Dave Wakeling Ithaca Beat odyssey
24: 2011 - Ten years since Buster's onstage heart attack Pressure Drop UK reissues Bad Manners' first two on CD with bonus cuts!
24: 1997 - John Buckley writes about Scofflaws in Colorado's Vail Trail weekly
24: 1987 - Ewan Kelly & the Glasgow Spy Kids' night of Moonstompin' Mayhem at the One Up Bar [Scotland]
20: 2011 - Desmond Dekker on SMRSLT!
20: 1998 - Hepcat's Right on Time on CD/LP/cassette; Mr. Lee praises his son on answering machine opening. Stogie by Greg Narvas III
20: 1958 - Adrian Sherwood born in London UK
19: 1980 - MELODY MAKER: BEAT "RANKIN' TO RICHES" GENESIS CLASH BLONDIE
17: 1981 - Black Echoes spotlight on Rico Rodrieguez
16: 2011 - Toasters kick off American leg of their 30th Anniversary Tour, NYC
13: 2011 - Suggsy is 50
12: 1980 - LOOK-IN TOM BAKER DR WHO SELECTER TWO TONE SKA
11: 1980 - Too Much Too Young Live E.P. out; Terry Hall Sr. praises his son in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, later the back sleeve
9: 1996 - HP1 begins with an interview of DF Macallister
3: 1980 - The Offs release You Fascinate Me 45
1: 1981 - Madness' fan club comix the Nutty Boys premiere issue of way too many (250,000) copies. A quarterly perhaps?
Jan 2005 - HP8 in Record Collector #306
Jan 1999 - Mind Toilet (NY, NY) editor Joseph Anastasio announces #84 as their final print issue, in favor of large web .PDFs

December 2010
31: 1986 - Gilman Street Warehouse Project opens its doors
28: 1989 - 10:27 AM, Newcastle quake. Hear the Dan Rather stutter on the Porkers' Earthquakin' 7" for more details
28: 1979 - Madness w/ Bad Manners, V.I.P.s and Bodysnatchers at Lyceum WC2
27: 1995 - R.I.P. David Molina, sudden car crash
25: 2010 - May all your dreams come true
23: 1986 - Gaz Mayall's new band the Trojans debut at Astoria (London)
22: 1979 - The Beat / Bodysnatchers in Sounds
21: 1987 - R.I.P. John Spence, aged 18
18: 1999 - R.I.P. Joe Higgs, aged 59
17: 2010 - R.I.P. Glen Adams, aged 65
17: 2000 - R.I.P. Moon Records, aged 17
17: 1996 - Professionals guest on air Lil' Davey's WITR 89.7 FM Ska On My Radio, 10pm
17: 1988 - The NME reviews Bim Skala Bim's Tuba City
14: 2010 - Dryden Theatre screening of the Clash's 1980 RUDE BOY, 8pm
14: 1943 - Robert 'Dandy' Livingstone Thompson born
13: 2010 - double JEOPARDY triple stumper mentions the Specials and 2Tone for $2000
12: 1963 - what a hard woman fe dead!
10: 2010 - Toots Hibbert (Clarendon, Jamaica) is 65 today
9: 1942 - Leonard Dillon born
9: 1940 - Clancy Eccles born
6: 1996 - Let's Go Bowling featured in Eureka CA's Times Standard
4 - 5: 2009 - Moon Invaders will be camping in the Ancienne Belgique Club (Brussels) for 2 days to record a live CD!
3: 2010 - Thunder Body CD release party, Water St 10pm
1: 1982 - English Beat at the Austin Opera House, Wednesday 9pm, $9
Dec 2010 - Scoot! Magazine re: August NISC rally Webster Park campground Rochester
Dec 1995 - Skatastrophe #1 out now
Dec 1986 - NYC's Toasters release Pool Shark on Unicorn UK - there will be others
November
30: 1986 - Fishbone's first full L.P., In Your Face
27: 2010 - The Steakouts at Dubland Underground, as part of Skanksgiving 2010
27: 1987 - Operation Ivy Seedy compilation
25: 2010 - Lint turns 45
25: 2010 - Eric Barnet FAT TURKEY on Pama Supreme
24: 2010 - Magical feeling? Tony Beet turns 48
22: 1968 - Beatles cite Desmond Dekker!
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Rolando Alphonso, aged 67
20: 1998 - Slackers The Question out
19: 1995 - No Doubt single Spiderwebs b/w Oi to the World
19: 1982 - 'Get a Job/Stand Down Margaret' 6:40 (live in Boston)
18: 1976 - Dave McWane is born
17: 1979 - Record Mirror features The Specials and Queen
16: 2001 - Toasters Club at Water St / the release of HP7
16: 1993 - 4xCD Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Island/ Mango)
16: 1989 - PHZ-54 is Laurel Aitken's Sally Brown / Hey Little Girl, limited edition radio 7"
12: 1982 - Madness release "Our House" 45, decades later it's sampled
6: 2010 - Ska Cubano returns
6: 1995 - Scofflaws' In Hi-Fi in CMJ #450
5: 1605 - Guy Fawkes night
5: 1965 - Dr. Madd Vibe born
4: 2008 - R.I.P. Byron Lee, aged 73
4: 1997 - Moon Ska release of Bad Manners' Heavy Petting
3: 2010 - R.I.P. Sonia Pottinger, aged 79
3: 1998 - Specials' beeb sessions 5/23/79 & 9/12/83, out on CD
3: 1997 - Annie Holub on Dave's Big Deluxe
2: 2010 - Princess Buster on SMRSLT!
2: 1992 - Madstock reunion CD & VHS out
November 1989 - Scooter Scene #36 has King Hammond!
November 1980 - Graduate Elvis Should Play Ska, on Pye Records 45
October
31: 2010 - smell my feet
30: 1988 - NY Citizens, The Panic (lka Bigger Thomas) Cat Club 13th St Manhattan 16+
27: 1996 - This video airs on MTV's 120 Minutes for the very first time
25: 2010 - R.I.P. Gregory Isaacs, aged 59
25: 2004 - R.I.P. John Peel OBE, aged 65
24: 1997 - Scofflaws Rochester Institute of Technology
21: 1988 - Fishbone at the Ritz NYC, 16+
21: 1985 - Untouchables, the Playn Jayn, Makin' Time at London's Electric Ballroom 8pm GMT
19: 2010 - Slackers /Green Room Rockers Mohawk Place Buffalo
18: 1980 - Nails' Trans Continental Ska 45 out today
17: 2010 - Rico is 76
17: 1989 - Ms. Rogers' neighborhood? This California skaquake inspires a regional compilation!
15: 2010 - Mrs. Skannotto latest CD release party at Water St. Steakouts too!
15: 1987 - Floyd Lloyd & Red Cloud at Gaz's Rockin' Blues
14: 2010 - Montreal Ska Festival Weekend
14: 1988 - Untouchables Crawford Hall UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
14: 1981 - Madness' biopic Take it or Leave it premieres in Camden Town
14: 1967 - UK news mentions Laurel Aitken and the launch of Siggy Jackson's Bluebeat label
13: 2008 - Dingwalls on SMRSLT
13: 2006 - Pietasters Milestones by twitch
12: 1988 - Toasters/ Great Train Robbery at Schine Underground, Syracuse University
11: 2010 - UB40 at B.B. Kings
9: 2010 - Justin Hinds on SMRLST!
7: 2003 - Fit to print?
7: 1997 - Pietasters' Willis on Hellcat is the one I like the least/ I've never seen this
7: 1997 - Mephiskapheles II: Maximum Perversion uses Eckmann D (classic Applebee's logotype)
7: 1995 - Ben Shields inna RS718 editorial
7: 1989 - London International Skafest III weekend at Sir George Robey maybe? There's a new one 2011
6: 1979 - Garry Bushell reviews Selecter "On My Radio" TT4 in Sounds
6: 1978 - The Jam goes down in the tube station at midnight
5: 2010 - DB Burkeman presents Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art
5: 1997 - Slackers, VSC, EST, Adjusters, Step Lively Wetlands 1 PM, $7
3: 2010 - Toasters @ Mohawk Place Buffalo 9pm, $10/13
3: 1990 - German reunification concluded
2: 1981 - Bad Manners Record Mirror w/ flexi
1: 2010 - ROUGHER YET!
1: 2010 - SKABOOK.COM!
October 2002 - Easyjet Suggs & Madness musical
Otoño 2001 - Liquidator features Symarip, Dave Barker + tons more
October 1994 - Record Collector #182 Terry Hall, Weller solo, Beatles butcher, Ska Reggae rarities
October 1990 - Music Collector #20 2Tone discography, Zoot!
October 1989 - Hotknives (Brighton, UK) record The Way Things Are. In 2010 they have a new one!
Autumn 1989 - new Unicorn catalog out
Harvest 1983 - Paul Weller in Twist

September
29: 1980 - Toots & Maytals Live! recorded for the Island L.P. Tour of UK features openers Bodysnatchers and Department S
26: 1966 - Venice Shoreline Chris Apparatus Murray out today
24: 2010 - Toasters Haunt, Ithaca NY
23: 2010 - Carlos Malcolm on SMRSLT
23: 1997 - cockadoodledoo! Slackers' Redlight emerges on the new Hellcat Records
23: 1980 - Marley's last concert is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
23: 1955 - Bingy Bunny born
22: 1998 - Mighty Bosstones' Live at the Middle East streetdate
21: 1999 - Pilfers' Chawalaleng out on Mojo
21: 1979 - The Clash's iconic London Calling cover photograph shot (New York Palladium)
20: 2000 - Bosstones, Gadjits Commodore Ballroom Vancouver BC
17: 2010 - Winston Sparks (aka King Stitt) is 70
17: 2001 - R.I.P. King Louie Nowell aka Lou Dog
17: 1970 - R.I.P. Hendrix in London
16: 1989 - CBS TV airs Rude Dog & the Dweebs
16: 1940 - Winston Grennan, one drop originator born
15: 2007 - Slackers' Boss Harmony Sessions
11: 2010 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad's Live Up II out, Water St.
11: 1981 - Madness' Shut Up single released
10: 2010 - Millie Small on SMRSLT!
9: 1997 - Total Madness, an old eighties hits compilation revamped with new art
8: 2010 - ten years since y2K
8: 2005 - Dub is a Weapon at O'Callaghans
8: 1995 - Tin spam, caviar? Stubborn Allstars debut, Open Season out today
7: 2005 - (2nd) Ska is Dead tour begins
6: 2005 - as if we needed a Mustard Plug hits cd
6: 1958 - Big Macs beware: Doug Trendle born, Hackney London
5: 1980 - Baggy Trousers single
3: 1996 - Moon Records release the duality of California Skaquake 2; graphic design by Jamie Bogner
2: 2010 - Coxone's widow, Norma Dodd died
Sept 1999 - CMJ New Music Monthly: Soul Providers - 'For the Pietasters, soul and ska go together like Sammy and Dean-O'
Several years later, this pullquote will be used to sticker their latest CD, All Day

August
31: 2010 - Matt Freeman Devil's Brigade CD anticipated
31: 1997 - Ernie Ranglin in Times
30: 2010 - Sir Horace Gentleman (aka Stephen Graham Panter) is 57
29: 1980 - UB40 release debut Signing Offmore here
28: 1998 - SKA films' Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels is a Brit gangster flick
27: 1997 - VooDoo Glow Skulls, Snapcase, Pietasters, Union at Water Street Music Hall; Pietasters set recorded for T. Brunett's Universal Buzz Radio
26: 2010 - Specials on Letterman
26: 1979 - Bank holiday weekend at London's Lyceum w/ Secret Affair, Madness, Purple Hearts, Selecter, Back To Zero
25: 2010 - cartoonist Bob Fingerman is 46
25: 2005 - for more details, see the Jazzbo track "Hurricane Katrina Ska"
25: 1998 - Suggs' sophomore solo Three Pyramids Club released. We get it 8/5/02 at Manifest
25: 1981 - Specials at the Ritz
24: 1983 - Jon Pareles' NYT review of the nutty boys at Pier 84
23: 1994 - Toasters' superb Dub 56 released; it will get reissued a few different ways since
22: 1985 - typewritten records of Island Records?
20: 2010 - Three Mile Island SC Rally
18: 2004 - R.I.P. Elmer Bernstein, 82. See Scofflaws' 91 theme from Man with The Golden Arm, a fifties film where the Chairman shoots smack
16: 2008 - R.I.P. Johnny 'Dizzy' Moore (Skatalites trumpet) age 69
16: 2005 - Madness return with Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1
16: 1996 - Moon Ska festival at Irving Plaza with Toasters, Slackers, Insteps, Miggedys
15: 1992 - R.I.P. Wilfred Jackie Edwards, aged 55
14: 2001 - Hey Hey, the Planet Smashers show no self control
13: 1991 - Mr. Bungle Warners debut produced by John Zorn out
12: 2005 - Camille goes hunting
12: 1990 - skacid house Beatmasters in Record Mirror
10: 1984 - Bad Manners at the Ritz, NYC
11: 1921 - Jah Jerry Haynes (Skatalites guitar) born, 80 years and 2 days R.I.P.
9: 1971 - R.I.P. Leslie Kong
8: 2010 - Chrissy Boy Foreman turns 54
8: 1992 - Madstock Finsbury Park is Madness' original reunion show; VHS by November that year
8: 1980 - The Clash Bankrobber finally out
7: 1995 - Rancid's Roots Radicals single from the forthcoming outcome album (22nd)
6: 2010 - Bim in Boston Globe
6: 2010 - If you see Dennis Alcapone today, wish him a happy 63rd
6: 2002 - Pietasters' Turbo out on Fueled By Ramen today
6: 1990 - Potato 5's live recording Five Alive out as Unicorn PHZA-73
5: 2010 - reunited Bim Skala Bim to play 4 shows thru New England
4: 2002 - Pietasters Rochester
4: 1998 - Bib Records' release Mashin' Up The Nation Vol 3 & 4; a decade since 1 & 2
3: 1999 - Pietasters' Awesome Mixtape #6 is their final on Hellcat
3: 1985 - Untouchables, J-Walkers and The Question at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, 8pm
1: 2010 - Lloyd Brevette (Skatalites bass) turns 79
1: 2000 - Rancid release second self-titled CD
Aug 1995 - Gang riding Vespas shatter a passenger window in this month's National Geographic
July
25: 2000 - Hepcat Push n' Shove as Hellcat 80419-1, sporting Showcard Gothic and Ravie. We get it 4/21/01 Toronto
22: 1989 - Bad Manners w/ Laurel, Bim Skala Bim at the Elks Lodge in Syracuse, $8, 9pm
21: 1980 - The Ruts become Ruts DC following the overdose of singer Malcolm Owen a week earlier
20: 1996 - Toasters w/Jack Ruby + J.C. Superska 7 Willow Port Chester NY
20: 1994 - Cord Burk? Let's Go Bowling live at Fox Theater Boulder Colorado; 6 song cassette Does The Spiral
20: 1994 - I'm at Staples buying Wausau cosmic orange paper 500 sheet ream
19: 1978 - DKs live debut in SF
17: 2005 - R.I.P. El Cubano, Mr. Laurel Aitken – The Godfather of Ska, High Priest of Reggae
17: 1998 - Bosstones 9/94 photos & cover story Goldmine #469
17: 1985 - Fishbone's debut NYC performance is at Irving Place
16: 1941 - Desmond Dekker born
15: 2010 - Jimmy Cliff free show Rochester NY, David Letterman too
11: 2002 - R.I.P. Rosco Gordon, aged 74
9: 2010 - Dan Gilbert goes crazy
8: 2010 - ReadJunk news of latest English Beat tour
8: 1980 - Arthur Kay (bassist of Last Resort) Play My Record on Red Admiral 45, amongst the 2Tone fray
7: 2010 - 11th Victoria BC Ska Fest
7: 1998 - NYSJE's Get This as MR132
4: 2000 - Wyclef & Dwayne mention Kool Herc
3: 2010 - Gaz Mayall's long running London club night celebrates 30 years!
3: 1982 - Pato Banton & Roger Charlery ago talk
1: 1963 - Robert Moon, USPS worker considered by many to be the father of ZIP code, announces numbers for the whole country
July 2001 - Discoveries #158 features Marley and Reggae in America
July 1981 - The Face #15 is Specials' Terry Hall
June
29: 1964 - Millie's Lollipop hits #1 on the chum chart
24: 2010 - Vinnie LTJ is 40 today
22: 2010 - Marmalade mogul Chris Blackwell is 73
22: 2010 - Dicky Barrett is 46
19: 2010 - Ernest Ranglin OD turns 78 today
18: 2010 - Gladdy Anderson turns 76 today
17: 1981 - Pauline Black's last night with The Selecter is Bonds Casino NYC. 2010 sees her here
16: 1980 - Akrylykz release 2nd single, Juvenile Delinquent b/w Ska'd For Life
14: 2003 - Bosstones Pietasters VGS at High Falls festival site Rochester. HP7 delivered
12: 1981 - CHSTT17 Specials' funeral dirge Ghost Town released
10: 2000 - Jackie Mittoo 2CD from Soundgarden Geneseo
8: 2004 - Slackers' International War Criminal out. We get it 7/3/05, Boston
8: 1988 - Unicorn Records' first of 5 compilations - Skankin' Round The World
7: 2002 - Toasters, Sluts, Purrs at Water St by Fritz
6: 2001 - R.I.P. Ken Lack (Caltone label)
5-7 2001 - Bosstones 3 nights Rochester
4: 2010 - The Steakouts debut performance, Montage Music Hall!
2: 1980 - Reluctant Stereotypes release their 2nd single, Ben Shirtman
2: 2010 - Dr. Ritchie Ring Ding turns 40
1: 2010 - New Bigger Thomas album out
1: 2000 - 2Strokebuzz.com launched
June 1982 - Trouser Press #62
June 1980 - Bad Manners' single Lip Up Fatty
May
30: 1986 - Moon Records' Two Tone Two: Beat Brigade/ A Kings/ Toasters/ Daybreakers/ Boilers at Danceteria, 30 W 21 St NYC
30: 1981 - NME reports on Treacherous Three and the Bronx rapping revolution
29: 2010 - Skatalites' Navarone on SMRSLT blog
29: 1982 - NME Strummer quits Clash
28: 2010 - Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. (aka Prince Buster) is 72
27: 2003 - Planet Smashers at the 505 in Syracuse
26: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond Adolphus Dacres, aged 64
25: 1996 - R.I.P Bradley James Nowell, aged 28
24: 1980 - Specials' Rat Race out as TT11
23: 1981 - NME cover is the Beat's Dave & Roger
22: 2010 - SKAppleton ska fest (est. 1993) in Kimberly, WI
22: 1995 - Pietasters rush OooLooLoo (produced by Victor Rice) out on Moon
22: 1955 - Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers, aka General Dankey is born in South India
21: 2007 - A simple twist of fate with Buck & Chuck at the St. Louis Airport!
20: 1997 - Jo-Ann Greene's yellow This is Ska 16 track collection out on Music Club
19: 1998 - Moon Records release of Mobtown's 2nd Cactus Juice
19: 1979 - NME cover is Specials & Ska Rude Boys Don't Argue
18: 2009 - Madness' Liberty of Norton Folgate out in the UK
18: 1997 - Move To Larger Venue: Bosstones, Pietasters, Swingin Utters Main St Armory Rochester
13: 2007 - Toasters, Briggs, Clockers, Mechatama at Mohawk Place (Buffalo) by Sickboy Productionz
11: 1981 - R.I.P. Robert Nesta Marley OM
10: 2002 - Allstonians, Mercury Star Lounge by Fritz
9: 2001 - Babylon cookie jar a crumble in CITYNEWS
9: 1989 - Casino Royale's Ten Golden Guns out on Unicorn PHZA-32
7: 1990 - No Sports' Stay Rude Stay Rebel E.P. out on Unicorn
7: 1942 - Justin Hinds (Dominoes) born
6: 1980 - Madness Daily Mirror
6: 1969 - R.I.P. Don Drummond
5: 2010 - Roderick James Byers is 55 today
5: 2005 - Mike Park at Water St Music Hall; Amanda Stepto AKA Degrassi's Christine "Spike" Nelson drives down from Toronto
5: 2004 - R.I.P. Clement Seymour Coxone Dodd
5: 1995 - Bosstones, Miggedys R.I.T. Ritter Arena 8pm
5: 1995 - Allstonians, R.I.T. Ritzkeller 5pm
4: 2007 - Slackers, Phenomenauts, Mrs. Skannotto, LeVar Burtones at the California Brew Haus, 14615
4: 1997 - Magadog, Professionals, Skacho Cheese and the Verge at the Penny Arcade 7pm $7
4: 1996 - Bosstones, SUNY Fredonia
3: 2003 - Blackouts split
2: 1981 - Plaid knickers in the NME
2: 1945 - Judge Dread born
1: 1991 - Chrysalis releases CC5010 (the Specials singles collection) in the UK
May 2009 - Uncut cover story madness
May 2009 - Neville Staple releases his book, Original Rude Boy; inside a pic of Jeremy Patton!
May 2008 - Specials (+CD) feature in MOJO #174
May 1982 - Bad Manners' Got No Brains 45 out
May 1980 - The Face debut issue, w/ Dammers ascending a staircase
May 1980 - Hit Parader reports on UK ska as 'Eurobeat'

April
30: 1994 - Bosstones, Shootyz Groove, SUNY Brockport Union Ballroom
29: 1995 - Yolk, Perfect Thyroid, Nazareth College Springfest
29: 2001 - Pietasters, Blackouts Haunt Ithaca
29: 1992 - There was a riot on the street tell me where were you?
28: 2001 - Bosstones, Blackouts SUNY Geneseo Kuhl Gymnasium
28: 1989 - 1st Skankin' Pickle show
27: 2007 - Shane Meadows' autobiographical This is England (IFC Films) released
27: 1998 - Ska Against Racism Tour w/Kemuri, Mustard Plug (deliver HP5 to Chris Demakes LTJ)
26: 1998 - Universal Madness recorded live at Universal Ampitheater L.A., & released a year later.
26: 1996 - Allstonians at Ritzkeller Coffeehouse RIT + free taco bar; photo by Doc Awk
26: 1980 - Specials live Germany (Hamburg - 27 Berlin - 28 Munich - 29 Neu Isenburg)
26: 1980 - Headline on the cover/ centrespread of UK paper Black Echoes
25: 1997 - Skatalites, Too Hectic Haunt Ithaca - they're traveling via an eighties Itasca RV
24: 2010 - All aboard the Reggae train! Derrick Morgan w/ Arsenals in Toronto
24: 2007 - One More Bullet released on Stomp Records Canada
24: 1998 - No Time For Plans
23: 2010 - NY Ska Festival featuring King Chango, HCS, Bigger Thomas & many more at B.B. King's
23: 1996 - Perfect Thyroid, Nazareth College Springfest
23: 1983 - Dexy's Come On Eileen tops Billboard Chart, preventing Michael Jackson from back-to-back #1s
22: 1927 - Lorenzo Aitken born in Cuba
21: 2010 - Barso (Madness' Mike Barson) is 52
21: 2002 - Flogging Molly, Slackers, AOT, Water St Music Hall
21: 2000 - Spider Nick & the Maddogs, w/ Blackouts, Mexican Cession, Water Street Music Hall
21: 1990 - East Bay Wrecking Crew scooter rally coincides with huge Berkeley Earth Day Int'l ska fest
20: 2010 - new PAMA INT'L release out in North America
20: 2010 - new Toots album out
20: 2010 - Slackers' Great Rocksteady Swindle (Hellcat) out
20: 1979 - 2Tone Records begins with release of Gangsters, rubber-stamped sleeves by the Special A.K.A.
19: 2010 - Specials in Toronto
18: 2003 - Toasters, Blackouts Club at Water St by Fritz (Easter weekend)
18: 1941 - Hortense Ellis born
17: 2010 - record store day?
17: 1995 - Bosstones are back, but will the floor survive? w/ Mung at Harro East Ballroom
17: 1987 - R.I.P. Carlton Barrett, one-drop originator, age 36
17: 1984 - Nelson Mandela by the Special A.K.A. as TT26
17: 1981 - Madness' Grey Day
16: 1981 - Seduced by Ska RS#342
16: 1979 - NME cover story on Mod revival
16: 1969 - Israelites is the top single in UK
15: 2004 - R.I.P. Phyllis Dillon, age 56
14: 1998 - 100% British Ska: Unsung Heroes of the 2 Tone Era, a collection of 45s on 2CD, by Captain Mod UK
13: 2010 - The Specials on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
13: 1983 - English Beat w/ openers R.E.M. live UR's Alexander Palestra, Wednesday 9pm
12: 1997 - Miggedys, Professionals, SMA, DLO, NC13s Syracuse
12: 1988 - Recriminations E.P. issued on Unicorn UK
12: 1986 - Ramones live UR's Alexander Palestra, Saturday 8pm
11: 2010 - Neville Euton Staple is 55 (Specials)
11: 1981 - NME features Belle Stars, James Brown
10: 2010 - Neville O'Riley Livingston, bka Bunny Wailer is 63
9: 2010 - Jeremy Jiant is 31
8: 1996 - B.P.M. The Very Best of the Beat released; we literally get it 4/9/06
7: 1980 - Jay Cocks' full page on the 2 Tone craze in Time Magazine USA
7: 1961 - DONDI born in Brooklyn – "I just couldn't see an adult putting that much energy into something that isn't going to pay"
6: 2010 - Joe Gittleman, bass fiddleman is 42
6: 2004 - Toots Hibbert duets album True Love out
5: 2010 - Everett Morton (English Beat/ Elevators drummer) is 59
5: 2002 - R.I.P. Dave Karcich (CT drummer for Spring-Heeled Jack, Pilfers, AOT)
4: 2010 - WRUR FM's dr awkward is 55, + sizeable Specials reunion article in NY Times
4: 1949 - Franklin Delano Alexander 'Junior' Braithwaite born in Kingston, JA
3: 2010 - Skinnerbox turns 21
2: 2010 - Jesse Michaels is 41
1: 2001 - B3's, General Rudie, Speakeasies Water St matinee by Fritz
1-11: 1997 - Attack of the Planet Smashers recorded, Chris Murray as producer
1: 2010 - James Chambers, bka Jimmy Cliff, is 62
Apr 2010: Ska Cubano III - Mambo Ska
Apr 1984: Skatalites record 2nd reunion album, The Return of The Big Guns29: 2001
Apr 1971: Dave & Ansel Collins Double Barrel #1 on UK singles chart for 2 weeks
March
31: 2000 - Pressure Cooker at Empire Brewing [Good Friday]
31: 1996 - Rancid, Water St w/ RFTC
30: 1988 - Toasters' Unicorn test press of PHZA 18 Recriminations E.P.
29: 2003 - Ska Summit, Las Vegas NV
28: 1997 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca NY
27: 2010 - Time Marches On! Derrick Morgan is 70
26: 2003 - Rocksteady 7 Monty's Krown
26: 1996 - Moon Records release Static World View by CT's Spring-Heeled Jack. 2010 reunion.
26: 1990 - "It's 12:00, do you know where your girlfriend is?" NYC SKA LIVE recorded and mixed at The Cat Club, NYC
26: 1978 - Automatics make debut opening for Saints at the Marquee (London). Later Coventry Automatics, then Special A.K.A.
25: 2006 - English Beat's Dave Wakeling Water St
25: 2003 - Megalith & Jump Up Records release a massive 4 disc compilation, Still Standing
24: 1996 - Coolie Ranx departs Toasters/ Dub 56 tracklist will get retooled
23: 1996 - Too Hectic Alfred University
23: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim HBB, w/ Koo Koo Boy
23: 1989 - SKA EXPLOSION mega-bill recorded at the London Astoria
23: 1989 - SKANKIN' 'ROUND THE WORLD VOL. 2 compilation out, liner notes penned by DJ BILKO
22: 2010 - 'Mr. Rocksteady' Ken Boothe OD turns 62
22: 2006 - Dicky B. fired from the Mighty Morning Show on Indie 103.1 FM in LA
22: 2002 - Pietasters, Water St w/ Erick
22: 1980 - Sounds cover, Fatty Dread (Bad Manners' Doug)
21: 1981 - Melody Maker cover "Pauline Bites the Bullet" (Selecter, Specials, Status Quo)
20: 2010 - Rainford Hugh Perry, bka Scratch the Upsetter is 74
19: 2010 - Terry Hall is 51
19: 2004 - Slackers Nietzsche's Buffalo
19: 1980 - Graduate 45 Elvis Should Play Ska
18: 1979 - Suggs witness to the Specials' RAR gig at the Hope & Anchor, after the show they trade addresses
18: 1967 - NME features Fats Domino & Prince Buster
17: 1995 - Toasters HBB, w/ BC Enterprize on St. Patrick's Day
17: 1995 - Gals Panic liner notes
17: 1992 - No Doubt Interscope debut out
16: 2005 - R.I.P. Justin Hinds, aged 62
15: 2010 - Jimmy Cliff inducted in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame
15: 2008 - R.I.P. Mikey Dread, aged 53
15: 1980 - Sounds cover The Specials in New York – they'll return April 20, 21st 2010!
15: 1980 - Melody Maker cover March Madness in NY; Chas standing on the hood of a Caprice
15: 1980 - People get ready for The Bodysnatchers' debut on TT9
13: 2003 - Slackers Milestones
12: 2009 - Spatial AKA in the Independent
12: 1964 - Millie's smash single, My Boy Lollipop released
12: 1932 - Don Drummond born
11: 1997 - Bosstones' Let's Face It ships platinum, knock on wood
9: 1989 - The Braces Prime Cut LP as PHZA-30. After paying an obscene amount for this 3/2008, we later find one locally for $5
8: 2010 - Lloyd Knibb is 79
8: 1980 - NME cover Birmingham Between the Lions (English Beat), + neckties
7: 1989 - Deltones' Stay Where You Are, an update of the Gloria & Dreamlettes classic, backed w/ Lemon Squeezy on PHZ-34
7: 1982 - Madness' House of Fun video filmed
7: 1981 - Shack Records (Specials Lynval & Bodysnatcher Stella) release 21 Guns
6: 2010 - NYSJE, Bluebeats, Hey Stranger, Freddy Loco, Silver Dollar at Kniting Factory Brooklyn
6: 1995 - R.I.P. Delroy Wilson, aged 46
6: 1980 - Mick Brown interviews The Specials, Gangsters of Ska - page 24 Rolling Stone
6: 1979 - Costello in St. Louis: offhand remarks escalate into infamous barroom brawl with Stephen Stills (over Ray Charles & JB)
5: 1982 - Fun Boy Three debut out
4: 2000 - apparently swap Busters' Make a Move (Moon) for Let's Go Bowling Stay Tuned (Liberation) at Soundgarden II Geneseo
4: 1995 - Toasters' New York Fever CD from Fantastic
4: 1988 - Toasters & Urban Blight play Boys Club of NY benefit, 8pm
3: 1948 - Donat Roy 'Jackie' Mittoo born
3: 1927 - Tommy McCook born
2: 1997 - Professionals, Danny Down & Sinker matinee at Penny Arcade
2: 1983 - Madness' Nutty Dread bootleg, 18 tracks recorded live in London
1: 2010 - Harry Belafonte is 83
1: 1996 - Bosstones, Water St w/ Bouncing Souls and H2O
1: 1981 - Rico's That Man is Forward out today
1: 1980 - Sounds Def Leppard cover where Joe Elliott looks like Meryl Streep
Mar 2010 - Record Collector #373 features Laurence Cane-Honeysett piece on Millie Small
Mar 1984 - Jamming #18 Jerry Dammers homeless
Mar 1980 - Trouser Press #48 (Joe Strummer cover) has innards on The Specials and Tom Petty

February
28: 1981 - Pauline Celebrates front cover of Record Mirror
27: 2006 - Pietasters, FCK, Mrs. Skannotto Milestones 170 East
27: 1997 - King Chango haunt afterward Mano's Diner Rt 13 Ithaca NY
27: 1993 - Skalapalooza bill at Ritz NYC (ex-Studio 54) - Bad Manners, Skatalites, Toasters, Scofflaws, Ruder Than You, Skunks!
25: 1994 - Urban Blight Milestones 50 East
24: 1998 - NY BEAT 2: Breaking and Entering MR099 out today (Megalith anticipates Volume III in 2010). Reunion April 10, 2010
24: 1980 - The Edge & Q107 FM is proud to present Specials, w/ The News at Maple Leaf Ballroom, Toronto
23: 2005 - Toasters, WBT, Castaways Ithaca. Full moon, listen to El Temperamental Sonido de Los Granadians Vol. 1 on the drive
23: 1980 - NME features Selecter / Madness, while Melody Maker features Pauline Black, Richie Blackmore and more
23: 1980 - Selecter is out with Too Much Pressure
23: 1967 - Prince Buster's Al Capone peaks #18 on the UK chart
21: 2010 - Ranking Roger Charlery is 49
21: 2008 - R.I.P. Joe Gibbs, aged 65
21: 2001 - Slackers' Wasted Days out on Hellcat Records 
21: 1986 - Toasters, A-Kings, Beat Brigade, Second Step, at Loeb Student Center NYU
20: 1980 - TT8, Selecter Three Minute Hero released
19: 2010 - Dave Wakeling is 54
18: 2004 - Fantastic Records to close
18: 2000 - Pressure Cooker Empire Brewery
17: 2004 - Big D, Mustard Plug, + Planet Smashers onstage in front of 400 kids in Buffalo for the first gig of the first Ska Is Dead tour
17: 2004 - The Know How at Bug Jar to no turnout; they break up exactly 3 years later
17: 1998 - Moon Ska releases the consolidated Essential Mr Review as MNR 120
16: 1989 - Deltones (ex-Bodysnatchers, Belle Stars) release their only LP, Nana Choc Choc in Paris, PHZA-31 recorded 8/88
15: 1995 - Bim's Eyes & Ears in Twin Cities Reader Minneapolis
15: 1990 - Laurel Aitken and Pressure Tenants release Ringo The Gringo, PHZA-50 on the Unicorn label
15: 1990 - Aitken mini E.P. Eskapade in France, PHZ-59; Twelve years later available on Grover's Rudi Got Married CD
14: 1981 - Dance Craze L.P. out as CHR TT 5004
14: 1929 - It was bootleg liquor! St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago. See Mark Foggo's 98 album/ Gangsters A New Beginning for detail
12: 1997 - Isaac Green & Skalars Haunt Ithaca, pause left on and next day written out from memory
12: 1997 - On The Town by Dan Bindert, City weekly is of interest
11: 2010 - H.R. (Bad Brains) is 54
11: 2005 - Dr. Awk 'fondly recalls WRUR reggae radio' in the Insider weekly
11: 2000 - Allstonians Empire Brewery
11: 1995 - Miggedys, Ansley Court, Nerve Circus at Boogie Bar
10: 1998 - Washington DC's Eastern Standard Time reveal debut, Second Hand
9: 2002 - Planet Smashers Milestones
9: 1980 - Specials in USA, Georgie Fame timewarp
9: 1979 - UB40 plays its first show; a birthday party
9: 1964 - Beatles Ed Sullivan
8: 2008 - Dead 60s announce split
8: 1990 - From the desk of Mark Johnson, ten track undead album recorded in London 6/89 by America's No.1 Ska ravers is FRANKENSKA
7: 2003 - English Beat at the Royal Festival Hall, London - 20 song DVD 130 min
7: 1980 - Madness Invades America, on page 25 of Rolling Stone
6: 2010 - NME gives Specials another cover, now for the 30th anniversary
6: 1993 - King Apparatus, Nietzsche's Buffalo
6: 1990 - Patrick Shan (Squale Records France) compiles int'l ska collection Planet Ska for Unicorn, later on CD in 1994
6: 1989 - R.I.P. King Tubby, age 48
6: 1945 - Bob Marley born
4: 2010 - PHZA-49 arrives!
4: 2006 - Los Furios' Tread Lightly out
4: 1984 - Madness, Tracey Ullman Jr TV times Look In
3: 1959 - Buddy Holly / Richie Valens / Big Bopper planecrash
2: 2003 - R.I.P. Vincent 'Randy' Chin, aged 65
1: 2003 - R.I.P. Ramón 'Mongo' Santamaría, aged 85
Feb 2005 - YouTube begins; watch the f*ck out!
Feb 1987 - Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Common Rider) publishes his first fanzine, Kill Deal For Only 50 Cents
Feb 1964 - The Wailers' first single, 'Simmer Down' hits #1 in Jamaica

January 2010
31: 2007 - The Police announce reunion performance for the Grammys®
31: 1997 - Professionals, Al Beaman Band, Danny Down at Tea House; CITY listing
30: 2007 - Alright, Still released in US, to Billboard's top 20
30: 1980 - Specials live radio broadcast in Denver; Jah Chris found this cassette in an aptartment he cleaned out
29: International Blastbeat Celebration Day
29: 1990 - the NME shows favorable mention of PHZA-49, No Sports' King Ska
28: 2006 - R.I.P. Brent Dowe (Melodians), aged 59
28: 2006 - Ska Brawl Package: Toasters + Go Jimmy Go. Knight Club in Powell Campus Center Alfred University 9:30p
28: 1994 - Scofflaws HBB
28: 1986 - Challenger shuttle explodes. See Potato 5 'Shuttle Disaster' / Faith No More 'We Care A Lot' for detail
27: 1998 - Moon releases Authentic Ska Sound of Tommy McCook on MNR-122
27: 1996 - Yolk at Milestones 50 East Avenue & snowy walk 5 miles home 2 - 4am
26-28: 2006 - Radiola Records' Sao Paulo Brazil weekend DVD has Desorden Publico, Chris Murray, Firebug, Slackers, Vic Rice
26: 1980 - The Specials Too Much Too Young E.P. out
25: 2010 - Joyce Bond on SMRSLT
25: 2002 - Bim Skala Bim Water St by Fritz
25: 2001 - Wakeling's Ithaca Beat Odyssey
24: 1984 - Apple introduces Macintosh
23: 1999 - Toasters, Mexican Cession, Split Second, Showplace Theatre Buffalo NY
23: 1995 - Ms. Cordell Jackson of Moon Records Memphis writes Moon NYC, prompting Moon Ska name change
22: 1996 - Rancid's third, the Jim Carroll-referencing ...And Out Come the Wolves certified gold by RIAA
22: 1994 - WITR FM radio listeners rank DHC's My Problem #8 of the top 89 alternative songs of all time?
21: 1980 - Specials Paradiso, Amsterdam: blue backed disc with printed inserts on Nite Club (UK) label, it's recorded
20: 2010 - R.I.P. Nerlyn "Lynn" Taitt, Jamaican guitarist, aged 75
20: 1998 - Where's the beef? Oprah vs. Cattle industry
20: 1981 - Teenage Filmstars' second single, I Helped Patrick Magoohan Escape, out today
20: 1979 - Aaron Emerson
20: 1977 - DP Kress
20: 1952 - Stanley Eisen
20: 1928 - Rudy Boesch
19: 1998 - R.I.P. Carl Perkins
19: 1985 - Sounds interview Jerry Dammers
18: 2010 - Spectrum/ Universal release My Boy Lollipop, a Millie Small anthology in UK
18: 1991 - Bosstones Toronto
18: 1990 - D.C. mayor Marion Barry arrested for cocaine use; "Goddamn setup...I'll be goddamn. Bitch set me up!" See Pietasters track
18: 1980 - Elvis Costello and Warner Brothers legal misunderstanding about the TT7 single begins
17: 1999 - Pietasters, Skavoovie & Epitones Water St (Ron Hawkins' Rusty Nails no show). Video shot from riser which gets taken out soon
17: 1989 - The Busters' Weserlabel debut Ruder Than Rude, LP PHZA-27 on Unicorn UK
17: 1981 - Black Echoes has RICO O'JAYS SPECIALS JAMES BROWN
17: 1981 - Sounds "Dammers Cuts Another Tooth"
16: 1982 - Bad Manners centrefold, Magnum P.I., Junior TV Times Look In
16: 1982 - Sounds reports ex-Selecter Pauline Black, to be stage actress performing role of Cassandra in Trojans this month
15: 2010 - Willo is 43 today!
15: 2010 - Arsenals on Bloor?
15: 1998 - Neil Cooper & ROIR reissues 2CD of the 1986 double cassette release Skatalites live '83 Stretching Out
15: 1994 - USA Billboard Magazine cover story unearths American Ska underground
14: 2010 - It's madness: Chas Smash is 51 today!
14: 1989 - Chas at 30, NME's Steve Lamacq writes 2 big pages on Zoot! and the late-eighties London ska awakening
13: 2010 - Graham 'Suggs' McPherson celebrates 49
13: 1998 - Dr. Ring Ding (Germany)'s Ram Di Dance on MNR-126 out
12: 1980 - Dr. Who's Tom Baker and The Selecter share LOOK IN weekly with Smurfs
11: 2005 - Tom Dumont is 37. Fullerton Museum reports theft of the red vinyl dress worn by Gwen Stefani on Tragic Kingdom album cover,
sometime between 2:30-3:30 PST. Valued $5,000
11: 1994 - Voodoo Glow Skulls debut Who is this Is released on Dr. Strange Records
11: 1990 - Derrick Morgan's Moonhop release on PHZA-63
9: 2003 - Rancid & Vic Ruggerio NBC TV Conan O'Brien
9: 1996 - HP 'zine begins with an interview of DF Macallister
9: 1991 - Specials Singles Collection CD released on Chrysalis
9: 1981 - Rudie in Court! Specials' Jerry & Terry are fined for inciting a riot the previous fall
7: 2003 - The BlueBeat Lounge, a weekly live club night in Los Angeles starts, runs 6+ years
6: 1996 - Andrea Gingerich and RTY at the Trocadero
5: 1979 - Joe Jackson's Look Sharp! out today
Jan 1991 More Tea? Ska-Boom (Leicester UK)'s Lost In Ska Extremely Nice label sees re-release on PHZCD-66, with bonus cuts added
Jan 1989 Operation Ivy records Energy, splits within 5 months
Jan 1985 National Geographic interviews Jimmy Cliff

12/64
bobby darin
TP#48
PHZA-78
December
31: 2000 - Slackers NYE at The Cooler, it's recorded
31: 1982 - Happy New Year, Dick Clark shoeshine!
30: 1994 - 1st live performance of New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, Manhattan Center
30: 1990 - London Int'l Ska Fest 5 at the Robey: Derrick Morgan, Hotknives, Mr. Review, Ska Fever, Ska Per
29: 1990 - London Int'l Ska Fest 5 at the Robey: Busters, Skaboom, Spy Eye, Natural Rhythm, Bugsy Malone, Tighten Up
29: 1979 - Elvis Costello debuts 'The Imposter' at a Christmas concert, benefit for Kampuchea (later on 2LP)
28: 2009 - Bosstones' Hometown Throwdown #12. Bim Skala Bim reunion & Pietasters support
28: 1997 - Toasters RTY Articles Derringers at Wetlands NYC
28: 1996 - Scofflaws Live, catalog no. MR097 recorded at New York Avenue, Huntington Long Island NY
28: 1995 - R.I.P. David Molina, ex-LGB lead guitar on Music To Bowl By, suddenly
28: 1981 - Rhoda w/ Special AKA 'The Boiler' sleeve + Sapphire deco typeface
26: 1973 - Toots & the Maytals at Coventry's Locarno -no
25: 2006 - R.I.P James Brown, Godfather of Soul, aged 73
25: 1987 - It's Christmastime in Hollis, Queens
23: 1986 - Gaz's Trojans debut at the London Astoria, supporting Potato 5 and ska legend Laurel Aitken
22: 2002 - R.I.P. Joe Strummer, singer frontman activist for the Clash, aged 50
22: 1980 - The Blackouts, a punk-pop band put together by three ex-members of the Telepaths (Seattle), release an E.P.
22: 1979 - Sounds Ranking Roger cover & Bodysnatchers feature. The Beat signs to Arista
21: 1996 - Toots' 2CD Time Tough Anthology
21: 1995 - GK Willy w/ BrainEaters at Penny Arcade (video)
21: 1988 - Int'l Ska Fest (BBLP001) Brixton Fridge with Bad Manners, Potato 5, Laurel Aitken, Deltones, Loafers,
Napoleon Solo, King Hammond. This is part of a tour DEC 7-23 UK which gets written up in the NME next month
20: 1989 - final Potato 5 gig, Town & Country II (Islington London)
20: 1988 - Int'l Ska Fest (BBLP001) Sir George Robey with Trojans, Bim Skala Bim, Braces, Skaos, Capone & Bullets, Skin Deep
19: 1982 - Madness' Smash Hits Christmas flexidisc
18: 1997 - R.I.P. Chris Farley, aged 33 in Chicago IL, also Grand Opening of the 2nd Moon Ska storefront office, NYC 6PM
17: 2000 - R.I.P. Moon Ska NYC, world's largest exclusive ska company since '83 announces demise effective immediately
17: 1999 - office party at Water St Grill (before the fire), across street a blue Econoline van bearing HP sticker, no idea whose
17: 1996 - Professionals guest performance on Lil Davey's WITR 89.7 FM Ska on my Radio 10pm
17: 1995 - Bim Skala Bim, East L.A. Syracuse NY
16: 1990 - R.I.P. Donat Roy 'Jackie' Mittoo, aged 42
15: 2009 - 9 years since Moon, and the Voice weighs in
15: 1996 - One of several Professionals' Sunday matinee at the Tea House Art Gallery. Also Bob Barker + Latchkey Kids
15: 1988 - The Risk (third studio LP out last week) + Skaos (from Munich, UK debut) at the Sir George Robey
15: 1979 - Melody Maker is Jerry Dammers, 2Tone Dance Master
14: 1979 - Clash release a smashy double LP named London Calling. 2009 sees it as a replica
13: 2000 - Bug Jar founder Bob Duke killed in automobile accident in Ireland
13: 1998 - Slackers' Vic & Dave with Skatalites haunt Ithaca NY
12: 1989 - Skaos' sophomore entitled Catch This Beat, Unicorn PHZA-56, to be reissued in 1995
12: 1989 - Laurel Aitken It's Too Late 1961-84 compilation on Unicorn PHZA-53
12: 1980 - At Version City? Clash release Sandinista! as 3 pizzas in one box
11: 2009 - Bosstones Jimmy Kimmel Live, episode #7155
10: 1994 - Moon Skazette #14 arrives Saturday afternoon via US mail, feeding interest for years
10: 1990 - Hotknives' debut The Way Things Are depicts bleak council housing. Unicorn PHZA-47
10: 1990 - Fifth and final international compilation Skankin' Round The World released, Unicorn PHZA-78
9: 2009 - BNE in the NYT
8: 2001 - Planet Smashers at Statesmen Geneseo 9pm
8: 1987 - Baby Snakes' Impudent Reptiles E.P. Unicorn PHZA-15
8: 1980 - John Lennon murdered
8: 1979 - Beat Tears of a Clown TT6
7: 2000 - Pilfers Blackouts Motives /Milestones
7: 1978 - R.I.P. BCE Oster 9/21/09, aged 30
6: 2009 - impressed to find a blog like Matt Carl's OFFBEATSKA.COM exists!
5: 1996 - Scofflaws haunt Ithaca NY – we listen to this en route
4: 1980 - Do Nothing/ Maggie's Farm 45 out
3: 1995 - Bosstones, Alexander Palestra U of R
2: 1980 - FlexiPop premiere issue comes with a free Selecter remix
1: 1989 - Derrick Morgan's recording session for The Moonhop at Aosis Studios, Chalk Farm London (Unicorn PHZA-63)
1: 1980 - Specials and Selecter BBC John Peel Session
Dec 2009 Mojo #193 Terry Hall interview
Dec 1986 Toasters Pool Shark released in UK on Unicorn PHZA-5
Dec 1983 Trouser Press #92/93 double issue. Madness/ Peter Tosh/ Bad Brains
Dec 1982 Trouser Press #80 English Beat/ Joe Jackson/ Bananarama
Dec 1964 Keen Teen #1 features Beatles/ Millie Small/ Beach Boys + hipster slang dictionary
November
30: 2000 - Bosstones, Mexican Cession at Sideshow Music Hall, Lackawanna NY
30: 2000 - Bob Moog lecture at Eastman School room OSL101 as part of MoogFest
30: 1997 - Pilfers, Enrique Slavadas Funtime Trio, Professionals at Penny Arcade
29: 1996 - Big D interview
26: 2009 - Thanksgiving - Prince Buster \ Turkey Stomp - Hotknives \ She sure can cook - Skavoovie
26: 2000 - Slackers Water St by Fritz
26: 1996 - Madness' The Business 3CD box from Media Play Ridgemont
25: 1997 - NYC SKA MOB tour, Mercury Theatre Buffalo
25: 1996 - Toots & the Maytals, Hepcat, Insteps at Wetlands NYC
24: 2003 - Primus’ Tour De Fromage, Syracuse
24: 2001 - Knockout Ska $5 used, Record Archive East
24: 1994 - Big Hair, Grimskunk, Lethargy at HBB
24: 1993 - Skavoovee '93 package! Skatalites, Special Beat, Selecter, Toasters in NY
24: 1979 - People get ready: the all-girl Bodysnatchers debut at London's Windsor Castle tonight
22: 1996 - Toasters / Bim Skala BSU
21: 1999 - Spider Nick & Maddogs Water St by Fritz
20: 1998 - R.I.P. Roland Alphonso, aged 67
20: 1996 - Deston Berry (Hepcat) interview Ogden St. Buffalo / the release of HP3
20: 1982 - NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS: Eddy Grant, Steve Van Zandt, Jah Wobble, Go-Gos, Musical Youth, Higsons, Black Flag
18: 2007 - FAME! Bowie's Rochester NY 1976 pot bust mugshot sells for $2,556.00 USD in Hilton
18: 1995 - Rancid on SNL with Roots Radicals + Ruby Soho
18: 1994 - Bim Skala Bim HBB
17: 1997 - Siren Six comes back and plays Neal's basement in Chili NY
17: 1995 - Murphy's Law, Toasters, Too Hectic Water St
16: 2001 - Toasters Club at Water St / the release of HP7
16: 1996 - Professionals, Latch Key Kids, Beat-Offs, PBT at the Claw in RIT tunnels
16: 1990 - Liquidators' solid Black And White Pictures, Unicorn PHZA-77
15: 2005 - Mighty Sparrow at Eastman
13: 2004 - R.I.P. Errol Thompson, aged 55
13: 1981 - Professionals' I Didn't See This Coming on Virgin UK
12: 1996 - Roseanne #206 'Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti' airs on ABC TV
12: 1995 - Mephiskapheles' Doomsday video premieres on MTV's 120 Minutes – we talk about it HERE
11: 1999 - Bim Skala Bim, Milestones
11: 1988 - Skaos' 11 track debut, Beware! is Unicorn PHZA-24
10: 2001 - R.I.P. Ken Kesey
10: 1994 - Hey stranger: Miggedys Water St
10: 1969 - Sesame Street pilot
9: 1996 - Professionals' first show at Riverton Community Center
9: 1983 - The Beat perform 22 songs in Geneva, NY it’s recorded
8: 1998 - Skinnerbox Demonstration release at Coney Island High, St Marks NYC. Radiation Kings + Metro Stylee support
8: 1988 - Jav in newsprint of Tenth Ward Courier
7: 1989 - Unicorn release PHZD-45, a gatefold 2LP of the London Int'l Ska Fest II, that May 27-29
6: 2004 - Harvey Pekar Night at Dryden Theatre
5: 2009 - Stephen Shafer, your Duff Guide to Ska, turns 43 today
5: 1982 - Bad Manners release Forging Ahead in UK
5: 1955 - "A red letter day in the history of science"
5: 1955 - Racial segregation forbidden on public transportation in U.S. interstate commerce. Play Napoleon Solo's 'Trains and Buses'
3: 1979 - Dead Kennedys, Prince Buster in this week's Sounds
1: 2002 - Mustard Plug, Blackouts 5 year Rochester by Fritz
October
31: 2009 - It's Halloween!
31: 1996 - Pietasters, Skunks, SHJ at D.C.'s Capitol Ballroom to 1,000 people
31: 1990 - Pietasters' first show
28: 1997 - Toasters' D.L.T.B.G.Y.D. out MR123
28: 1993 - Bad Brains in town
27: 1995 - New York Times Neil Strauss' big The Sound of New York: Ska. Ska? Yes, Ska.
27: 1979 - Specials Odeon rooftop Sounds
26: 1881 - Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ. Play the Loafers song for more detail
24: 1997 - Scofflaws RIT
23: 1999 - Fritz's first promotion is 4 locals at Showplace Theatre (Buffalo)
23: 1996 - Mephiskapheles at Showplace
22: 1994 - Penn State Skank! JC Superska, Slackers, Agent 99, Mephiskapheles, SHJ, Hub Ballroom. $4
21: 1993 - Bosstones crowd breaks through floorboards at Rochester's HBB
21: 1985 - Untouchables, The Playn Jayn + Makin' Time at Electric Ballroom NW1
21: 1980 - Bodysnatchers announce split, their final show will be Halloween night in London
20: 2004 - Dub is a Weapon + GPGDS, Club at Water St
20: 1989 - Unicorn release Vive Le Ska, a French compilation plus a Laurel Aitken anthology
20: 1979 - NME Geldof interview and a night out with the Specials; Sounds has Selecter, Northern Mod
19: 2004 - R.I.P. Greg Shaw [BOMP!]
19: 1979 - Madness' One Step Beyond single and debut longplayer of the same name out
17: 1934 - Rico born Emmanuel Rodriguez in Kingston, Jamaica (75)
16: 1998 - George Marshall's Two Tone Story square format, found locally at Ultrasonic Sound
16: 1997 - Primus, Dome Arena, 7pm
15: 2005 - 10:15 saturday night? Dave Wakeling's English Beat, Water St Music Hall
15: 1999 - Ska is our Business released
13: 2006 - Pietasters, Flour City Knuckleheads, Hoboz at Milestones (9pm Friday)
13: 1997 - Selecter and The Friggs, Water St Music Hall; 30 people go (8pm Monday)
13: 1983 - First commercial cellular phone call made
12: 1997 - Mustard Plug, Telegraph, Mexican Cession, Major Healy (6pm Buffalo)
12: 1980 - Bahama Mama records most of their live In Concert LP at the Triangle Theatre in Rochester
10: 1998 - SHJ USA + FINK GOTHIC at SUNY Oswego
9: 1993 - Steady Earnest/ Gangster Fun HBB
9: 1979 - A Message to You, Rudy backed with Nite Klub released today – produced by E. Costello
8: 1994 - Chucklehead/ Miggedys HBB
7: 1997 - Mephiskapheles' Maximum Perversion out on Moon Ska MNR555, Pietasters' Willis out on Hellcat
6: 1946 - Millie Small born in Clarendon, Jamaica (63) - Trojan Records is compiling her anthology fall '09
4: 1994 - Give 'em enough rope: Question The Answers out
5: 2002 - Dave Wakeling's English Beat gets HP7, Montage Music Hall
3: 1993 - The Suspects played their first show at the 'club' Hoi Polloi in Houston, TX
1: 1994 - Miggedys PMHS talent show
Oct 2009: SPIN runs feature re: 30 years of 2Tone, unheard of behaviour for an American mag!
Oct 1989: Stones laid by our ancestors? Check the smeared concrete out front 234 East Blvd: "R.U.S.H. Oct-89", "SKINHEAD UNITY",
"MARY SKANK", "M-OI" – It's not council housing, but J. Nunno worked at Towners bikes nearby. Zoot ska zine is at its peak.
September
30: 1939 - The late Balford was born this day in Westmoreland, JA
29: 2008 - Ring the bell, school's back in!
29: 1982 - English Beat release Special Beat Service on Go Feet
28: 2007 - United Colors of Ska, the classic int'l compilation series, releases v4.0
28: 1997 - Moonstomp Tour package brings us Articles, Magadog
28: 1997 - Memorial for Alex Montalvo in NYC, singer for Defactos
27: 1980 - More Specials released. This goes to #5 in UK, #98 in US
27: 1980 - Melody Maker has Jon Anderson of Yes, + Specials
27: 1980 - NME cover is a Specials stage invasion at Bristol
25: 1979 - The Selecter TT4 climbs to #8 in the UK
23: 2004 - Buck in Calgary
22: 2007 - R.I.P. Hepcat bassist David Fuentes (1971-2007). Fuentes was on UK tour with Aggrolites.
22: 1999 - Pietasters Styleen's Syracuse
21: 2009 - Alex Désert stars on House MD
19: 1980 - Bad Manners' Special Brew/ Ivor the Engine out now. Reaches #3 in UK
18: 1982 - Ex-Specials' Roddy Radiation & the Tearjerkers debut 45 Desire out now
17: 2001 - R.I.P. Lou Dog
17: 1983 - Melody Maker's colour cover is J. Dammers AKA
16: 2009 - R.I.P. Mary Travers, aged 72
15: 1989 - Laurel Aitken's 30th Anniversary Concert at Gaz's is released on Unicorn videotape PHZV-1 
15: 1979 - Both Melody Maker and the NME report Madness signing to Stiff Records
11: 2001 - ReIssues: English Beat hits collection Beat This! + Ethiopians' Reggae Hit The Town
11: 1990 - Spy Eye (Trieste, Italy) Hot Pursuits PHZA-75 released; we caught up with Max and Lorenzo this past spring
11: 1987 - Peter Tosh killed. Born Winston Huebert Mackingtosh Oct 1944. See Liberator's "Night Johnny Tosh was Killed" for more detail
10: 1999 - Perfect Thyroid/ Mexican Cession SUNY Geneseo
9: 2007 - Memorial for Steven LaForge in NYC. Spider Johnson (Potato 5) namedrops him on 'Harvest in the East', 6/89 "Special dedication to all the ska followers, the man called Steve from the Toasters." Hex was an original member (keyboards on all the early records), and founder of the band
8: 2000 - Toasters UR Yellowjacket Day
7: 1992 - John Godfrey meets George Marshall, part II
7: 1990 - Derrick Morgan's Blazing Fire 2 compilation released PHZA-72
7: 1989 - No Sports' (Stuttgart, Germany) landmark debut King Ska on Unicorn PHZA-49!
6: 1997 - Planet Smashers live Buffalo NY
5: 1981 - NME reports Madness in the Bahamas
5: 1980 - Stereotype / International Jet Set 45 will get to #6 in UK. On the album cut, the plane crashes.
2: 2000 - Notables' Quite Notable, UTs Agent Double O Soul + V/A - All Skanadian Club 1 sold 17:07 by Outasite Greg Prevost
2: 1989 - Record Mirror contains interviews with, articles and photos on Adeva, Silencers, 80s UK Ska, Sigourney Weaver (honestly!)
1: 1979 - NME proclaims The Specials "the most enjoyable British band since The Members"
Sep 2009 - Willo's Book sees a new deluxe edition out this month!
Sep 1996 - Issue 2 of Swedish ska-fanzine One Step Beyond now out (in english) interviews w/ Dr.Calypso, Giant Steps, Skalatones, more
Sep 1988 - i.D. Magazine #62 pp. 68-75 is Ska Party by John Godfrey: The rise of anti-Nazi skinhead fanzines, aligned to a ska revival, is giving a rejuvenated identity.
August
26: 2008 - The PX retires
25: 2005 - Rolling Stone reviews Style Wars (1983) DVD reissue
25: 1979 - This week's NME cover is Neville and Lynval, Extra Specials Two Tone Extra + Island Mango Intensified compilations,
complete with a then-vintage photo of Don Drummond!
22: 2002 - Megalith Records founded in Norman, OK
22: 1998 - New England Skafest II, program by Grant Thayer
23: 1997 - New England Skafest I, program by Grant Thayer (Nashoba Valley Ski Area in Medford, MA)
16: 2003 - Mass Hysteria, Miasmics, Amy Ryan at Harmony House / the release of HP8
16: 1998 - Laurel Aitken, NYSJE, Chris Murray, Strangeways, One Groovy Coconut Wetlands NYC
16: 1980 - This week's NME cover is Lionel "Saxa" Martin and Roger for the cover story Beat Generations
16: 1977 - Elvis expires, the king is dead
14: 1979 - Madness record session BBC Radio 1 with John Peel. It'll air in 2 weeks
10: 2000 - Dave Hillyard brings his Rocksteady 7 to Rochester NY. They'll return 3/26/03
8: 2009 - NYSJE and TSPO live in Tokyo + devastating earthquake to follow
8: 1988 - The Deltones, a girl group featuring members of the Bodysnatchers and Belle Stars, record their pink album in France, Na Na Choc Choc in Paris [Unicorn PHZA-31/ ROIR USA as Oddball Boy cassette]
8: 1974 - Nixon resigns
8: 1969 - Iain Macmillan photographs the Abbey Road crossing, in London W8
7: 1987 - Frankie & Annette go back
6: 2009 - R.I.P. John Hughes
6: 2000 - All about Scotto Savitt
6: 1999 - Dance Like The Devil, our first ever PYE Northern Soul collection found in cutout bin Geneva NY
6: 1962 - Jamaican Independence Day; see Lord Creator's "Independent Jamaica" or Skatalites' "Independent Anniversary Ska" (borrows the Beatles' Love Me Do)
5: 2002 - Trojan UK Hits Box, Suggs' 3 Pyramids, The Conspiracy Too Far Gone, all haul from Manifest Discs in Charlotte, NC
5: 2000 - We Don't Skare, a compilation by Fred Skarface, found new at the Record Archive East
5: 1995 - Moon Records' Wix anticipates Scofflaws' Ska In Hi-Fi to ship mid-September!
4: 1995 - locals Grounds Keeper Willy w/ Miggedys at The Powderhorn Lodge, first of two annual
4: 1987 - NY Beat: Hit & Run statement of account & UK licensing
2: 1980 - NME's full report on the Selecter split from 2Tone. Also, El Buckito turns 25; he's coming to NYC soon to stay 20 years and bring ska to the nation.
1: 1981 - Music Television (MTV) cable network starts up
1: 1979 - The Prince/Madness released on the 2Tone label
Aug 2004 - Record Collector #300 cover story is a 25 years of 2Tone retrospective
Aug 2003 - Alternative Press #181 runs 2 pages on the 4x Still Standing set, with Bucket, Chuck Wren and the future of US Ska
Aug 2002 - MOJO #105 w/ free Trojan Reggae CD, has stories on Marley, Alpha Boys, Bluebeat, Ezz Reco, Stranglers & more!
Aug 1985 - Blue Summer is the first Bad Manners single which fails to chart
July
28: 1998 - Neville Staple interview, Buffalo NY
28: 1979 - Why must you record my phonecalls? Specials' debut single, Gangsters in at #7 on UK chart
27: 2002 - Bim Skala Bim live on the Oswego harbor
27: 1987 - Monday Night Ska Extravaganza c/o Gaz's Rockin' Blues at the Astoria, London.
Lineup is Desmond Dekker, Laurel Aitken, The Trojans and Maroon Town; I'm 10 and it's ONLY £5!
26: 2000 - Steve Fennessy writes about Negative Image SC in the local paper, and it mentions Mr. Sixties Gene Meredith
26: 1980 - SOUNDS reports The Selecter is pulling out of the 2Tone label in order to take better risks; Marco has a current interview with bassist Charley Anderson this month
25: 1989 - Unicorn releases IT'S A SKANDAL, the UK LP forerunner to Pork Pie Records Ska, Ska, Skandal all-German series of the nineties - bands include No Sports, Butlers, Braces, Skaos and El Bosso und die Ping Pongs (eighties Dr. Richie Ring Ding)
24: 1982 - English Beat toaster Ranking Roger Charlery is on cover of Melody Maker, in anticipation of the band's 3rd and final LP, Special Beat Service
21: 1996 - Under the boardwalk? Chris Apparatus brings Venice Beach to lower Manhattan
21: 1971 - New York Times runs article on front page of its inside section titled "Taki 183" Spawns Pen Pals.
20: 2005 - R.I.P. James Doohan, aged 85
20: 1969 - Satellites are important. Our top 40 songs celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission!
18: 2009 - Nelson Mandela turns 91 today. General Dankey has a new outlet in The Spatial AKA Orchestra performing live, according to DUFF GUIDE
17: 2009 - Brum bassie Geezer Butler is 60 today
17: 2005 - R.I.P. El Cubano, Mr. Laurel Aitken – The Godfather of Ska, and High Priest of Reggae!
10: 2000 - Locate a copy of American Playhouse
June
30: 2005 - R.I.P. Clancy Eccles, age 64. Shu Be Du
29: 2009 - ABC No Rio, the NYC mainstay 'zine library gets new funding.
25: 1995 - A parcel from Iggy Two Tone, the Passaic NJ mailorder supply
23: 2009 - Look-In #1: the 29 Dec 79 issue of this UK kid's TV guide has stuff on both Persis Khambatta and The Specials >> #2 has Dr. Who and The Selecter!
19: 1999 - Untouchables' 1985 Wild Child reissue on HIP-O from the H.O.G.
18: 2009 - Happy to report longtime UK ska heroe ARTHUR KAY has a flash new website!
17: 1994 - O.J. Simpson's white Bronco and we add the term 'hoi polloi' to our lexicon en route to Mount Hope Record Archive
16: 2009 - Jah Crunchy is 50 years old! You might recall his Specials Musicmass on WBER FM winter '93
16: 1999 - The Toasters live in Rochester 21+ jug bar / the release of HP6
16: 1986 - Unicorn Records, a small specialty mod label
releases its first 7" single by the pop art band The Times. The label grows to release mainly New Ska of the eighties.
12: 1988 - Toasters, Potato 5 plus Deltones perform at Town & Country in Islington London. recordings get released on Unicorn in 1990 as the live "Frankenska" and "Five Alive" LP/CDs
9: Spirit of 6/9 – the new Aggrolites disc "IV" comes out. Two years ago, the band's third was downplayed in Rolling Stone #1068 as being ‘good barbecue music’.
8: 1989 - Just Kidding from AU "Watch The Fires" PHZA-38 released on Unicorn
5: 1997 - Mephiskapheles live in Rochester / the release of HP4
"We always need a skinhead BBQ back in the month of June – to ward off all the bad feelings left over from the fall and spring" – Dance Hall Crashers, 1989
Their green MR024 arrives twice to replace my yellow Honest Don's issuance found used in Newbury Street Boston 10/05.
May
28: 2009 - Cecil Bustamente Campbell, A.K.A. Prince Buster, is 71 today.
This April, Sony's Reel Music has reissued his ultra-scarce 1967 US RCA/ Victor Ten Commandments [4/2009].

25: 2006 - R.I.P. Desmond 'Dekker' Dacres
Here’s ten songs which mention, quote or reference him in some way:

1. Maytals - Desmond Dekker Came First (1968)
2. Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (1968)
3. El Casino Royale - Housebreaker (1988)
4. Scofflaws - Night Train (1991)
5. Frank Black - Parry the Wind High Low (1993)
6. Undercover S.K.A. - Rude Girl (1995)
7. Rancid - Roots Radicals (1995)
8. Common Rider - Classics of Love (1999)
9. MM Bosstones - Don’t Worry Desmond Dekker (2007)
10. Sonic Boom Six - Rum Little Skallywag (2009)

19: 1979 - Rudy King Roots... Rudy Guys Are Back proclaims graffiti on a wall in Shepherd’s Bush LDN W12;
The Specials appear on cover of this week’s Melody Maker, along with The Story of Ska by Johnny Copasetic, a summation of everything historic up to that point. Thirty years later & they're on CNN!
18: Girlie and Laurel Aitken: Scandal In A Brixton Market
First time re-release of this hugely collectable album [Pama Economy ECO-08; can fetch in excess of £200 among traders]. Featuring many Skinhead favourites from the classic 1969/70 era. Most recordings new to CD, includes original 12 tracks + 13 bonus cuts, extensive liner notes and imagery from the period. On Pressure Drop / Cherry Red UK
12: Spencer Davis Group's Stevie Winwood is 61 today; Island Records founded by marmalade mogul Chris Blackwell in May 1959.
See the May '96 Record Collector #201 for more detail.
11: 1981 - R.I.P. Robert Nesta Marley, O.M.
9: 1989 - Mr. Spock never met Mr. Space? CASINO ROYALE's Ten Golden Guns was released on Unicorn PHZA-32
6: 1969 - R.I.P. Don Drummond
4: 2004 - R.I.P. Clement 'Coxone' Dodd
YOU WANT EGG SALAD? May sees release of a scorching live album on Do The Dog Music titled Return To The Planet Of The Bakesys! This 11 track release was recorded at the Batschkapp venue in Frankfurt, Germany 10/30/94 with lead vocals by future Pama International singer Finny. More on the Bakesys Midday Joggers page.
April
23: 2009 - Toasters live in London '89, Frankenska PHZCD-60 arrives here/ Coolie Ranx appears the first time
22: 1990 - 12,000?! at the Earth Day International Ska Fest at Berkeley CA's Greek Theater
19: 2009 - Big Youth, the 1970s Jamaican toaster born Manley Augustus Buchanan, turns 60 today
16: 1981 - Rolling Stone publishes a pretty massive article, 'Seduced By Ska'
10: May '09 Q MAGAZINE features spreads on the latest Specials reunion
9: Full moon? a white Nissan Sentra Maryland plate, ska punk + more. All magnetics
6: MR0036 The Busters' Dead or Alive again, this time with 1/1 booklet is not to be confused with MR036 (Moon Europe) Skappelation d’origine controlee.
3: Skaface (MR019, 1988) is the early US compilation LP we know as Roddy Moreno’s Skaville USA Volume III from a dusty upstairs Toronto shop, eight Aprils ago. The fact that some Orange County blonde’s vox is on there insures its resale inflation. Charlie Ahearn talks about his Wild Style at Dryden Theatre tonight
2: 2009 - Evening commute brings the VA vanity plate "PNKNSKA" on I-490 westbound
1972
March
28: 1979 - Radiation skank? Three Mile Island nuclear incident, and THE BEAT!
24: 1999 - BIM article, first appears in City Newspaper
23: 1996 - Toasters at Alfred University
22: 2009 - William Shatner is 78 today
21: Steady Earnest Take it, Take it, TAKE IT! is their mid-90s collection of tracks I know from compilations. Great band!
19: Trouser Press, Dec '83 double issue madness
14: Do The Dog Music channel
13: DREAD'S ALMANAC? Alexander Minto Hughes (W 2 May 1945 – F 13 Mar 1998), bka Judge Dread
12: Frantic Frank goes AGGRO with a Jesse Wagner interview/ cover story City Newspaper
10: TT18 Rhoda Dakar The Boiler $4 at Lakeshore Record Exchange
February
27: 2009 - matrix no.s PHZA-26 and PHZA-32 arrive from Eden, Utah & appropriate info added.
16: 2009 - Allsorts '90 trombone went to Easy Big Fella, and Off The Shelf went on to become Dr. Raju. Tracey THESE BOOTS Newman OZ
9: 1997 - Professionals, Snaggletooth. Mr. Fickle, Refuse & Resist + Danny Down in ARA Benefit at Tea House Artgallery
9: 1989 - The Donkey Show's Bali Island E.P. released on Unicorn
9: 1980 - Full moon? NME cover The 2Toning of America: Special A.K.A in USA, 29 years ago
6: 2009 - Skavoovie (sans Epitones) plan a reunion and blog, as mentioned 5/2004
6: 1999 - Penn State Ska Fest III, Laurel Aitken video by Fritz. Same weekend I bought the Aussie compilation: Ska Skank Down Under #1, 1980-1990 (thanks to Pete Cooper’s Sound System Records, Sydney AU). Played it to death! It features bands like Off The Shelf and Naughty Rhythms. The 90's Moon Records US equivalent had art by done by Ans.
5: Potato 5 - Do The Jerk! Spuds 12" update of the classic 1965 Larks tune
4: Typornography.blogspot.com/
3: WOT, NO SILVER PLATTER? "I know Americans can be slow on the cultural uptake, but this is ridiculous. Don't spoon feed them--make 'em work for it! If they don't know what something is, they should freaking look it up on the web or in a book! Knowledge is power!" DUFFGUIDE
January 2009
23: Melody Maker, 21 Jun 80 cover The Pressure of Being Someone Special
20: Toasters Thrill Me Up – Moon Ska reissue '95 has 3 more tracks than the Celluloid/ Skaloid one
TT16 Do Nothing/ Maggie's Farm picture sleeve. Got a website? Just want to again underscore what an amazing one this is 2-TONE.INFO
4: R.I.P. Vincent T. Ford, aged 68 – some women must cry
December
19: We could be heroes just for one day? BILKO gets interviewed in The Guardian
15: Kevin Avery NEVER WILL CHANGE
14: Well rubaduck, The Harder They Scrub! E.R.N.I.E.
11: Aggrolites tickets go on sale. They're openers for Flogging Molly - March 11, 2009 at Water Street
10: vicruggiero.com
4: Shocks of Mighty! SPECIALS 30th Anniversary UK reunion tour tickets fully sell in under 5 minutes. CULT! no Jerry though
November
10: 2008 - Prince Buster featured in SOUNDS November 3, 1979 alongside Dead Kennedys
4: R.I.P. Byron Lee, aged 73. Ska bandleader at hotels all across Jamaica for over 40 years
October
28: 2008 - Unicorn PHZA-31 and PHZA-74 arrive on the turntable! Only been seeking 'em 14 years
10: 2008 - R.I.P. Alton Ellis O.D., age 70. Sweetest rocksteady, cry tough
10: 1998 - Pilfers SUNY Oswego
6: 2Tone CEO mug on the front of Melody Maker December 15, 1979
September
28: Planet Smashers' self-titled sounds so so 1995 in a mall cutout bin. Electric heat the shocking blue reign in blood.
26: ZOOT! #11 & #13 (89, 90) provide a splash of color, and detail the rise of King Hammond myth! An impeccable ska / street publication for the ages.
16: Laurel Aitken featured in SOUNDS July 26, 1980 – 25 years on, his obituary appears in the LONDON TIMES July 26, 2005.
August
UNCUT July '98 issue (whole) because Jerry Dammers only gives interviews every 10 years. Also innards on Lee Marvin, The Prisoner w/ Patrick Magoohan, and the movie Wild Style at 15.
24 - Our local "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" grocery sponsors a reggae Fest at CMAC ampitheater featuring Maxi Priest, Culture, UB40 and Matisyahu. WOW! IT'S DYNAMITE!!
July
TR-7849A The Maytals' "Johnny Cool Man" in Trojan company sleeve. First in UK 1971, a rework kicks off his latest Mike Cacia-produced CD, Light Your Light (2007)
Record Collector #182 – Oct 1994 talks not only of Beatles' scandalous butcher sleeve, but Terry Hall, Paul Weller, and vintage Ska / Reggae 45s
7: Vintage Italian ska band Strange Fruit's "Over The Border" was recorded 13 Feb 1990 [Unicorn Records] in Rome. The opening lyrics are swiped from a T.S. Eliot poem about April lilacs. I only bring it up now because this was the final Jeopardy answer tonight, Trebek!
June
Great new site up over at ROCKERSREVOLT.COM –– Also at some point GAZ got a redesign.

The Notables (lost instrumental trad ska Pacific NW, 1997) had a track on Season 2 of The Sopranos. Ten years passed and they re-emerged with a Christmas 45 featuring Specials guitarist Lynval Golding. Who knew?

MOJO #175 has an interview with Voice of the People himself, Prince Buster + a Paul Weller-selected compilation disc.

Wild Style is 25 years old. Nowadays, BOMBIT is quite the international documentary.

JAVA JUNKIE? Dance Hall Crashers? Starbucks now sells a 1981-lookin' ska sampler, "One Step Beyond" along the same lines as that Trojan Reggae compilation they did last year. Except that there's very little ska / 2Tone proper on it – Minor detail I guess.

It was written down. PRESSURE DROP >> was the world's reggae read London UK Autumn 1975 by Nick Kimberley & Penny Reel (later to write for the NME).

Now, June 2008, Gabe's PRESSURE DROP soundcast episode #111, can be found HERE.

May 2008
1: Heavy Manners is also an Eighties (2Tone era) band from the midwest. SuperDutyToughWork is reference to CASE in Style Wars, but is now a weblog comprised of graphic design projects, clothing, reggae/ Jamaican culture, graffiti, politricks, skinhead/ punk culture, and photography. No small wonder I'm interested. Check the Davida typeface at heavy-manners.com; American designer Louis Minott created Davida™ in 1965.

<< This month's issue of MOJO [#174] features a large story on The Specials and 2Tone, a current interview with Dammers + a free CD of songs which inspired the band 1979 and contemporaries. Its USA counterpart has grungy Neil Young on the cover 'cos we don't know who they are... Most bookstores will have it, and while you're there pick up Sir Horace Gentleman's hardcover autobiography if you 'aven't already. Has there ever even been a hardbound Ska text? What are you buying gas for?
"Walt Jabsco, I owe you" Nigel Ball


24: Adrian Frutiger turns 80 this year. Among his many other crucial typefaces, he gave us the Univers.
28: Prince Buster turns 70 today.
April
21: Helveticafilm screening at the Dryden Theatre. It is its second showing in under a year, and I already have the DVD, but wanna see the lecture by RIT guy Charles Bigelow.
15: Brazilian Tax? New Model Army at Bug Jar. "The Hunt" got covered by Sepultura in 1993
5: I went to the new huge Record Archive location for about 15 minutes – in under 60 seconds located a beat-up Dance Craze LP for $2. Tracklist varies significantly compared to UK press and my US compact disc, due to Madness' subtraction + Specials' Too Much Too Young EP additives. Melting groceries in the car made me leave.
- TWO LLOYDS SOON COME! 2008 Rochester International Jazz Festival lineup is announced and '60s Jamaican originators SKATALITES will perform in our neighborhood like Toots did last summer. Hear street corner classics at East & Alexander June 20, 7pm! IT'S FREE. (Recall this same intersection adorned with our sticker circa 1999-2K)
March
24: Unicorn PHZA-30 arrives, and only been looking for it 15 years!
4: GWEN PLUGS HP!

Read Gabe's website/ ska blog with freshest interviews & news at musicaloccupation.com
February
The Face Issue 1 Gerald Dankey ascending the staircase, 1980
The Ska Men - Jamaica Ska Newest Dance Craze 196? on Diplomat label
January 2008
5: Rude Awakening fanzine NYC SKA 10/87 issue.
Choice weblogs to check out nowadays include Marco On The Bass and The Duff Guide to Ska, both from the same NYC/NJ area.

December
20: Joe Strummer documentary The Future is Unwritten at Little Theatre; Clash DJ Mikey Dread is ill and suspiciously absent from it.
Monkey Business is a 1988 Trojan '69 compilation issued 1980 (which Django recommended in our 8/23/97 interview).
November

1: The Vulcans played sci-fi reggae inna UK 1972 and used a Bob Moog brand synthesizer. NME 1980.

FANZINE FEVER '85!
October
The New Music is softcover New Wave/ Punk/ Mod encyclopedia Australia ©1982. Not unlike that Beat Twist & Crawl biography by Malu Halasa.
30: 2007 - Unicorn's elusive Super Ska compilation shows up
13: 1979 - Joe Jackson on Sounds
10: 2007 - We found a Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces specimen book (1992)
5: 2007 - This Is England opens at The Little Theatre and runs a week. Do the reggae popcorn & trainspot the temporal discrepancies!
October 1964 - Teen Screen has Millie Small, the bluebeat girl
September
There's a new Pietasters CD out now on Indication Records. It's obvious these guys love The Zombies Jun '65 and All Day sounds lo-fi like an AM radio!
The duality of Adults Only + Reggae for Kids compilations on Trojan Creole budget line

<< Click for the Trojan Box Set statistics!
August
THE LOCOMOTIVE "Rudi's in Love" 45 on Parlophone 1968? isn't even a ska/reggae track. But the Tropical Bird 7" by The Untouchables is.
Alert Don Bruno Ferrari, The Aggrolites perform the Ed Kassner Bunch (Pyramids) "Banana" on Yo Gabba Gabba Nickelodeon television.
A Backyardigans toy has a pirate SKA button you can press.
July
28: 2007 - Brian Dixon & Aggrolites live in Buffalo 40 years to the day UK Trojan Records was founded
28: 1979 - The Specials entered the UK chart today with Gangsters on 45
23: 2007 - three Bobby Jay & The Hawks records from PQ: The Watusi, The Ska, & The Monkey. High in the mid-sixties Warner Bros, no date listed. This is where Scofflaws got the logotype for their Sept '95 In Hi-Fi cover, and Victor Rice's tshirt mood, 10/23/96
June
15 - 9pm Toots is Roots - East & Alexander stage
Good to catch up with so many people!
7: Millie in TEENVILLE MAGAZINE #2, 1964

May
1: Prince Buster – The Prophet (Lagoon France 1994) has been scarce for far too long – ever since both Doc Awkward found it inna Borders cutout bin & Noah Wildman paid a lot for it, circa '96. This week brought 2 under $20 and It's Pure Soul!
April
27: Passage: Dave Cross, local musician & onetime contributor
14: Lily Allen has one L. Polloi has 2
March
14: 1981 - Paul Slattery w/ the Belle Stars on Sounds
12: 2007 - Letterman soul Amy Winehouse rehab live seems a bit too retro for usa
8: 1980 - NME & Roger a go talk: Birmingham between the Lions
February 2007
6: World's oldest paper ditches newsprint


December
28: 2006 - ALLNITERS' D-D-D-DANCE! LP AUSTRALIAN SKA GATEFOLD 80'S
Rare CD issue of the classic 80s ska album by the Allniters originally released on Powderworks Records in 1983 (POW6060).
Axis CD cdax #701470 excellent condition songs include:
Side 1 Allniters Theme, Love and Affection, Montego Bay, Revie Dub, Hey Tojo, Hold On,
Side 2 Juliette, Breakfast in Bed, Something, What gives you the right, Allniters Theme, Get It Together
October
6: 2006 - got the Italian skaband EL CASINO ROYALE from 1988 in the mail for $6 so I'd better listen to that now. They’re remaking that very BOND movie for November this year

Vertigo-gos
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7/8/06 - p.s. here's scan of a promo card I devised using the last 3 City weeklies, a knife and some glue.
I'm incredibly cheap when it comes to xeroxing & mailing stuff so I probably won’t send you one
January 2006
9: Current site upLoaded to URL only 5+ years in the making; I hope I see you ten years later
December 9, 2004 - CNN anchor Jack Cafferty has been caught misusing the term, he offers this retraction: "And hoi polloi refers to common people, not those rich morons that are evicting those two red-tail hawks from that Fifth Avenue co-op. I misused the word hoi polloi, and for that I humbly apologize."
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So here you are. There's been a ton of ska/reggae goings on since [last issue] #8/2003 – deaths, births, and compilations.
We're sifiting through it all to make it a bit more managable/ thanks for waiting.
shirts are available again. $9 limited quantities/ sizes

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