Laurel Aitken Rudi Got Married

Published Jan 01, 2006

Volume five in a collection chronicling the career of the "Godfather of ska" Laurel Aitken, Rudi Got Married is made up of songs recorded in...

Dr. Ring Ding & the Senior All-Stars Golden Gate: The Best of...

Published Jan 01, 2006

Germany's Senior All-Stars have called it quits, ending what has been a long and fruitful career. Dr. Ring Ding, aka Richie Jung, should con...

Bedouin Soundclash Root Fire

Published Jan 01, 2006

If I were writing this review based on the first two songs, I would be telling everyone that Root Fire by these Kingston (Ontario, not Jamai...

The Slackers Close My Eyes

Published Jan 01, 2006

The Slackers seem to have taken a more serious tone on their fifth album, Close My Eyes. With a cover that features a crying woman facing aw...

King Django King Django Meets the Scrucialists

Published Jan 01, 2006

Now this is what I had in mind when King Django put out his highly anticipated solo album, Reason, on Hellcat. Reason was a disappointment f...

Skatalites From Paris With Love

Published Jan 01, 2006

Ever wonder what would happen if you took an influential band that played 30 years ago, let them listen to all the music that was born from...

Stingers ATX This Good Thing

Published Jan 01, 2006

It's a sad reflection on the state of the North American ska scene when a solid group like the Stingers ATX has to go all the way to Germany...

Adjusters Otis Redding Will Save America

Published Jan 01, 2006

The Adjusters are one of many bands that I figured disappeared when the ska bubble burst, so I was genuinely surprised at the arrival of Oti...

Various Pressure Sounds Presents Red Bumb Ball: Rare and Unreleased Rocksteady 1966-8

Published Dec 01, 2003

After there was ska and before there was reggae, there was rocksteady and Red Bumb Ball puts together a collection of 22 top-notch selection...

Stuck On You Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly

Published Dec 01, 2003

The Farrelly brothers are the kings of dumb comedy, creating two of the stupidest movies of the '90s in Dumb and Dumber and There's Somethin...

Fishbone The Essential Collection

Published Dec 01, 2003

Fishbone’s career, which began in the early ’80s and continues to this day, has taken them from a ska band, to a funk band, to a metal band...

Catch 22 Dinosaur Sounds

Published Dec 01, 2003

I don’t know if it’s fair to judge a band on past success, but every Catch 22 album since Keasby Nights has left me vaguely disappointed. It...

Undergrads: The Complete Freshman Season

Published Oct 01, 2003

Undergrads was the victim of its target audience: the show was wildly successful amongst (you guessed it) college undergrads, a group that w...

Duplex Danny DeVito

Published Oct 01, 2003

Danny DeVito loves black comedies, and Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, follows in the footsteps of his previous works, Thro...

Cradle 2 the Grave Andrzej Bartkowiak

Published Sep 01, 2003

As DMX has stated before, he's "not a nice person," he's also "not a good actor," but Cradle 2 the Grave, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Ex...

Freddy vs. Jason Ronny Yu

Published Aug 01, 2003

Every geek has different scenarios they play out in their mind and with their friends. The comic geek wonders who would win if the X-Men and...

Alpha Boy School Big Fight

Published Aug 01, 2003

The ’80s are back! A Sprite commercial, Vice City, synth-pop (okay, that was a year ago), and now in — ska? It would seem that way if the Al...

Planet Smashers Mighty

Published Jul 01, 2003

The Planet Smashers haven’t put out a weak album yet, and Mighty, their fifth, is a continuation of the band’s consistently solid library. F...

The Skatalites The 360 Club, Toronto ON - May 24, 2003

Published Jul 01, 2003

By far the most prolific band of ska's earliest days, the Skatalites (featuring surviving members Lloyd Brevett, Lloyd Knibb and Lester Ster...

Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7 United Front

Published Jul 01, 2003

Laid back — that’s the way to describe the new DHR7 album, and it’s the perfect medicine for a hot day when your clothes stick to your body...