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| 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 Ska Bonanza 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 24: 1964 - Tommy McCook & Skatalites' present Bonanza Ska at the Bournemouth Club, Kingston JA 9pm 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! 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 - Reprint of SOUNDS Dance Craze! (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 available 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 makes up Suggs' Christmas E.P. 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 |
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| November 30: 2000 - Bosstones, Mexican Cession, Dinkus 9 at 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 out 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) interview Ogden St. Buffalo / the release of HP3 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 17: 1995 - Scofflaws w/ Desorden Publico (10th anniversary) at 1900 Wall Street in Caracas, Venezuela 15: 1980 - Melody Maker "Tracking the new Selecter", 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: 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| September 30: 1980 - The Beat, live in Boston MA (17 tracks); Ethernet specs published by Xerox working with Intel and DEC 28: 1997 - Articles, Magadog Moonstomp Tour, Rochester NY 28: 1964 - The Real Jamaica Ska (BN 26119) Epic Records USA MONAURAL L.P. [jumbled & reissued on compact disc in 1993, 2001] 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; A Major finally gets it right! 14: 2007 - Lily Allen & DJ Aaron Lacrate Crystal Ballroom Portland OR 11: 1997 - Liz Masucci and Skazzy Jeff debut SKA BEETS dance Thursdays at freakazoid 9: 1997 - Heartbeat issue Skatalites' Foundation Ska, 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 |
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| 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. 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 memoirs 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 |
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| 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 on 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 1998 Ska'd For Life (Cornwall, UK) 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 (originally 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: 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. Can't Say 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) |
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| 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 live 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 & 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 |
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| April 30: 2011 - Water Street 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 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's 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: 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 April 1999 - Lip Up #9 (Texas) Scofflaws interview, Donkey Show, more April 1981 - The Face #12 has Adam Ant, Beat, Selecter April 1980 - Specials featured in USA's Creem |
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| 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 on Bigger Thomas 28: 1982 - English Beat's third Peel Session 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 23: 1996 - Toasters Alfred U 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 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: 1993 - MMB give the world plaid Zippos on Ska-core, The Devil & More E.P. 16: 1989 - Little Chief (PHZA-43) live from Leeds at Gaz's W1 15: 2011 - a new Maroon Town disc! First 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 & Dreamlettes 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 4: 2000 - LGB Stay Tuned / Busters' Make a Move from Soundgarden 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 - Skazette try our ska its delicious bonus: rude drawings of Cartman schweet. Mar 1998 - Musician #232 Bosstones cover Mar 1984 - Jamming #18 Jerry Dammers |
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| 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: 1994 - Toasters issue Skaboom! + Recriminations on Moon CD 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. |
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| 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 earliest 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 Ananstasio announces #84 as their final print issue, in favor of large web .PDFs |
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| 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" 28: 1979 - Madness w/ Bad Manners, V.I.P.s and Bodysnatchers at Lyceum WC2 27: 1995 - R.I.P. David Molina, suddenly 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 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 Lil Davie's WITR 89.7 FM Ska on my Radio, 10pm 17: 1988 - NME review of 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 Dec 1986 - NYC's Toasters release Pool Shark on Unicorn UK - there will be others |
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| November 30: 1986 - Fishbone's first full LP, 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 |
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| 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: 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 Off – more here 28: 1998 - SKA films' Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels is a Brit gangster flick 27: 1997 - VooDoo Glow Skulls, Snapcase, Pietasters. Water Street Music Hall 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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, age 64 25: 1996 - R.I.P Bradley James Nowell, age 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 CITY 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; 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' |
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| 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 26-29: 1980 - Specials live Germany (Hamburg - Berlin - Munich - 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 (Bosstones) 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 |
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| 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 - 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 23: 2004 - Slackers Nietzsches Buffalo 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: 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: 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 3/08, we then 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 - Let's Go Bowling Stay Tuned (Liberation) & Busters' Make a Move (Moon) from Soundgarden Geneseo 4: 1995 - Toasters' NY Fever CD from Fantastic Records 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 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 LCH 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 Mar 1964 - Millie's smash single, My Boy Lollipop released |
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| 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
Feb 1987 - Jesse Michaels (Op Ivy, Common Rider) publishes his first fanzine, Kill Deal for 50 Cents Feb 1964 - The Wailers' first single, 'Simmer Down' hits #1 in Jamaica |
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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 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 were a no show). Video shot from a 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 |
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| December 31: 2000 - Slackers NYE at The Cooler 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 Dec 7-23 UK tour 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, in Chicago IL 18: 1997 - Grand Opening of the 2nd Moon Ska storefront office, 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), and across street a blue Econoline van bearing HP sticker, no idea whose 17: 1996 - Professionals guest performance on Lil Davie'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 - Napoleon Solo's How To Steal The World E.P. on Unicorn PHZA-29 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 |
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| 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 - Steve 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 |
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| 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 MNR123 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. |
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| 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 + All Skanadian Club 1, sold by Greg Prevost 2: 1989 - Record Mirror contains interviews with, articles and photos on Adeva, Silencers, 80s UK Ska, Sigourney Weaver (honestly!) 1: 1979 - The NME proclaims Specials as "the most enjoyable British band since The Members" Sep 2009 - Willo's Book sees a new deluxe edition out this month! 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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].
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. |
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| 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 blondie’s vox is on there insures its resale inflation. Charlie Ahearn talks about his Wild Style at Dryden Theatre tonight 2: Evening commute brings the VA vanity plate "PNKNSKA" on I-490 westbound |
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| February 27: matrix no.s PHZA-26 and PHZA-32 arrive from Eden, Utah & appropriate info added. 16: 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). 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| November 10: 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 |
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| October 28: Unicorn PHZA-31 and PHZA-74 arrive on the turntable! Only been seeking 'em 14 years 10: R.I.P. Alton Ellis, O.D., age 70. Sweetest rocksteady, cry tough. 10: 1998 - Pilfers at SUNY Oswego 6: 2Tone CEO mug has the front of Melody Maker December 15, 1979 |
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| 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. |
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| 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!! |
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| 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! |
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| 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 USA 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 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 had been adorned with our prophetic sticker circa 1999-2K) |
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| February The Face Issue 1 Gerald Dankey ascending the staircase, 1980. The Ska Men - Jamaica Ska Newest Dance Craze 196? on Diplomat label |
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| 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. |
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| October The New Music is a softcover New Wave/ Punk/ Mod encyclopedia from Australia ©1982. Not unlike that English Beat Twist & Crawl biography by Malu Halasa. 30: Unicorn's elusive Super Ska compilation shows up. 10: We found a Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces specimen book (1992) 5: This Is England opens at The Little Theatre, and runs a week. Do the reggae popcorn & trainspot the temporal discrepancies! |
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| 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! |
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| 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. |
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| July 28: 2007 - Aggrolites live in Buffalo 40 years to the day UK Trojan Records was founded. 28: 1979 - The Specials entered the UK chart this day in 1979! 23: A set of 3 Bobby Jay & The Hawks records from PQ: "The Ska". "The Monkey" & "The Watusi". High in the mid-sixties, no date listed. This is where The Scofflaws got the logotype for their 1995 "In Hi -Fi' cover, and Victor Rice's tshirt mood, fall '96. |
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| 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! |
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| April 27: Passage: Dave Cross, local musician & onetime contributor 14: Lily Allen has one L. Polloi has 2 |
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December 28: 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 |
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| October 6: 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 |
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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 |
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| January 2006 9: Current site upLoaded to URL only 5+ years in the making; I hope I see you ten years later |
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| 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. |
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