#Boston Ska

[evandorkin]

Out today for #BandcampFriday:

BIM BAM BOOM - The Songs of Bim Skala Bim (Vol 1)

covers/tribute album feat. cover art by me and @colorkitten.

https://stubbornrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bim-bam-boom-volume-1

[bostonska]

Fri Aug 4 Spring Heeled Jack, Mellow Bravo, NB Rude Boys @ Askew, PVD

Thu Aug 17 P-Funk, Fishbone @ MGM Fenway

Sat Aug 19 Westbound Train, The Euphoralites @ Lizard Lounge

Thu Aug 31 The Suicide Machines, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Homeless Gospel Choir @ Crystal Ballroom, Somerville

Links to details, tickets, and more shows at https://www.bostonska.net/

[thenewlimits]

Matty and Jake of Boston ska band The New Limits perform their original song "Pressure Up" as an acoustic duo.

 Listen to "Pressure Up" on all streaming services 

[skatunenetwork]

‼️⚠️GIG ALERT⚠️‼️

COMING THIS FALL TO NEW YOKR CITY AND BOSTON

A NIGHT OF VIDEO GAME MUSIC

Brought to you by Skatune Network and Dom Palombi’s Game Night!

With special support form Button Masher, this is a show you don’t wanna miss

Tickets on sale Friday at 10am!!!

[b3crew]

Duck Amuck in Japan | Episode 20: Ska Me Crazy! | B3crew.com

It's a plethora of live shows and anime on this week's episode of Duck Amuck in Japan! King Baby Duck reports on the 25th Anniversary show of TsuShiMaMiRe, and sees both ASAKA and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra live. Speaking of ska, KBD, AFLM, and JonStar share their thoughts on the new album from The Aquabats! Plus, the guys look back at the Spring 2024 anime season, as well as peek at what's to come in the summer.

[justskibby]

But I can't help from just smiling

When that damn sun is shinning on

Hell, It's just

Shining down all over me

No, I can't help but just smile

While that damn sun is shining on

Dang, it's just shining down

Down over me

[onryou-onryou]

BIM SKALA BIM "Chief Inspector"

[theindyreview]

Check This: The Pomps - Grudges

Check This: @ThePompsBand - Grudges Boston ska veterans channel two-tone through American bar rock on this soulful, rollicking new track @BadTimeRec #newmusic #ska #skapunk #poppunk #ThePomps #grudges

Artist: The Pomps Song: “Grudges” Album: Bottom of the Pomps Label: Bad Time Records Genre: Ska, Ska-Punk, Pop-Punk Boston-based The Pomps first poked their heads out in 2013, releasing a mini-LP, before the members got drawn back into their other bands (Big D and the Kids Table, Have Nots, Stray Bullets, Westbound Train), having families and that whole pandemic thing. Despite the long…

[dontstartnoshit]

Perhaps one of my more pretencious opinions, but I think we need to start distinguishing between various waves of SKA. It's come back as a sort of "meme" genre for people who almost exclusively listen to Mighty Mighty Bostones and The Aquabats and Choking Victim and all the other (predominantely white) third wave US shit.

And tbc I don't think that's a bad thing, Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt is one of my go to drunk albums, as well as an album I generally default to when I want to have some fun, lol. But that stuff is certainly no Prince Buster or Duke Reid, yfm. It's really lame how people have just forgotten Ska's origins and just made it into a genre for Jokes (even if most of the jokes are generally pretty wholesome.)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

During New York City Pride last Sunday, pro-Palestinian protestors blocked the parade route, spraying red paint onto a truck towing the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) float. Some protestors began distributing informational leaflets, others smeared themselves in red paint and unfurled Palestinian flags, and several sat in the street alongside a white banner that read, “No queer liberation without Palestinian liberation.” “Free, Free Palestine!” they chanted, and “Shut it down!”

“By taking blood money from arms manufacturers, @HRC has become complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people,” wrote the protest organizer, Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), in an X post alongside a video of the action. “Stop arming Zionism. Free Palestine.” New York City police quickly cleared the area of photographers while onlookers repeatedly shouted, “Shame!” Officers then zip-tied the protestors, arresting 10 and charging seven with disorderly conduct, told Gay City News reported. Pro-Palestinian protestors had criticized the HRC last February for accepting a “platinum” financial sponsorship from Northrop Grumman, a weapons manufacturer that supplies the Israeli military. HRC has issued previous statements sympathizing with those harmed by the conflict.

But WAWOG wasn’t the only group who disrupted a Pride event this year to protest for Palestine. In Boston, Massachusetts, over 100 protestors blocked the parade route, and over 60 pro-Palestinian organizations signed a letter calling on the parade’s organizers to stop accepting money from companies with financial ties to Israel. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pro-Palestinian protestors blocked the parade, facing off against a drumline. In Denver, Colorado, pro-Palestinian protestors interrupted a ska band performing on the PrideFest main stage to explain that the same conservative Christian nationalists who support the bombing of Palestine also regularly encourage violence against LGBTQ+ people. In San Francisco, California, over 1,000 people boycotted the main parade to attend a “No Pride in Genocide” Palestinian solidarity march, co-organized by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and a local chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace. The march’s organizers accused SF Pride of accepting sponsorships from corporations “actively involved in the genocide of the people of Gaza” while noting Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinian queers.

“Palestinian queer people do not have the right of return, are subject to the dehumanizing and violent treatment Israel gives to all Palestinians at its numerous checkpoints, often do not have the ability to enter into Israel, even if in a relationship with an Israeli, and suffer the same persecution as all Palestinians,” a QUIT spokesperson said to LGBTQ Nation in a statement. Israel’s treatment of Palestine has long divided the LGBTQ+ community. Israel has spent millions to tout itself internationally as the most LGBTQ+-friendly nation in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Palestine grants nearly no civil rights to its own LGBTQ+ citizens. Pro-Palestinian protestors have long accused Israel of using its LGBTQ+-inclusive policies to “pinkwash” its human rights violations against Palestinians. As a result, anti-queer conservatives in the U.S. often resort to “homonationalism,” citing Muslim-majority countries’ anti-LGBTQ+ policies as a pretext for racism, Islamophobia, and violence against Muslims.

[...] Some members of the queer community, like Ethan Felson, executive director of A Wider Bridge, a nonprofit that connects LGBTQ+ communities in North America and Israel, say that the pro-Palestinian protests have made some Jewish queers feel unsafe and unwelcome at this year’s Pride events. Felson’s sentiments have been echoed by out gay Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who has taken a very pro-Israel stance in the conflict.

“The anti-Israel wing of the LGBTQ community is essentially telling pro-Israel Jews that if you wish to be a part of the LGBTQ community, then you have to be in the closet about your Zionism, you have to be ashamed of your Zionism,” Torres told NBC News, referring to the movement to establish a Jewish homeland. “That to me is not Pride. That’s a perversion of Pride.” But the stakes of not speaking up have never been higher. While Biden’s policies have upset pro-Palestinian queers, other LGBTQ+ people have also pointed out that Trump doesn’t support Palestine either. As president, Trump drafted a “peace plan” for the region without any Palestinian input. He also defunded the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees and moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem while closing the U.S. mission to Palestine in the same city, both of which heightened tensions in the region. Additionally, Trump has said he will reinstate his Muslim travel ban and oversee mass deportations of immigrants in the U.S., having accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.” Overall, his stances threaten undocumented Arab families living in the U.S., increase hostility towards Arab Americans, and remove any pretense of the U.S. being a mediating force in Middle Eastern peace talks.

Pride Parades across the nation, including New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, have had pro-Palestinian protesters blocking and disrupting parades to protest sponsors of Israel Apartheid State’s genocide campaign in Gaza and their pinkwashing campaign against LGBTQ+ Palestinians.

[runthepockets]

The other thing about this site's take on SKA is that most people are talking about 3rd wave stuff IE Mighty Mighty Bostones and the like, not even the OG Carribean genre. Like please be fucking serious no way are you this racist.

[thenewlimits]

Two new original rocksteady songs for you!

“Normal Day” and “New England (You’re the Best) Now Streaming

What is normal, anyway? Some of us just want a nine-to-five. Others cry at the thought. “Normal Day” has nothing to do with quarantine and lots to do with figuring out what you want out of life.

“New England” is our Americana-Rocksteady love letter to the northeast USA. We’ve traveled all over but we keep coming back. It’s not perfect, but it’s ours. In fact, it’s the best.

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[punkrockhistory]

43 years ago

The Specials in Boston Massachusetts, April 1980.

Photo by Michael Grecco

#punk #punkrock #ska #skalegends #2tone #thespecials #history #skahistory

[athetos]

Give me metal and punk recs please

okay this is very broad so i'm going to include my fav bands from a ton of different subgenres

Punk/Hardcore: The Misfits, The Distillers, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Bad Brains, Pinkshift, Alkaline Trio, Jawbreaker, Anti-Flag, Sharptooth, Suicidal Tendencies

Screamo: Orchid, The Blood Brothers, United Nations, Circle Takes the Square, City of Caterpillar, Touche Amore, Seeyouspacecowboy

Ska Punk: Streetlight Manifesto, We Are the Union, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Less Than Jake, The interrupters, No Doubt, Operation Ivy, Jeff Rosenstock

Pop Punk: Knuckle Puck, Neck Deep, Blink-182, Hot Mulligan, Boston Manor, Saves the Day, Motion City Soundtrack, The Story So Far, Yellowcard

Post-Hardcore: Senses Fail, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, AFI, The Used, A Day to Remember, At the Drive-In, La Dispute, Leathermouth

Metalcore: Underoath, The Agonist, The Devil Wears Prada, Killswitch Engage, I See Stars, Silent Planet, Earth Caller, Atreyu

Technical Death Metal: Archspire, Rings of Saturn, Bleak Flesh, Blood Incantation, Spawn of Possession, Blotted Science, Artificial Brain, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Nile, Rivers of Nihil, Revocation, Necrophagist, Death

Black Metal: Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, Panopticon, Darkthrone, Woods of Desolation, Bathory, In the Woods...

[musicshelfwithmustard]

In The Aisle with Skatune Network

This week's edition of "In The Aisle" highlights "The CEO of Ska" Skatune Network.

Photo of JER by Rae Mystic Hello again! Welcome to the second edition of Music Shelf’s newest series “In The Aisle.” Last week we were joined by the incredibly talented students of Berklee College of Music and the surrounding Boston area. This week we have the pleasure of being joined by “The CEO of Ska” Skatune Network/JER. Jeremy Hunter through social media has helped bring new eyes and…