23min of Ska : Houses of the Rudy

Have you heard the news? Ska is back! Oh you knew that… well… awesome! Glad you are listening, and thanks!

00:00 – the Step Daughters – Right Sound (the Right Sound ’22)
02:57 – Cartoon Violence – Black Book (Tit for Tat ’13)
06:14 – Mr. Kingpin – Actions Speak Louder (Introducing Mr. Kingpin ’21)
09:06 – Half Past Two – Your Way, Your Time (Your Way, Your Time ’22)
11:44 – Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – 9 (SKA=ALMIGHTY ’21)
14:23 – AKA the Syndicate – Average Man (AKA the Syndicate ’21)
17:53 – ChainSka Brassika – Eye Scratcher (Tales of a Londoner ’22)

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
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23min of Ska : the Discovery of the Secret Basement Show

Oh I am so excited to share this episode with you! Kicking it off w/ 2 brand new high energy songs from Coolidge and Cartoon Violence! Two of my favorite current bands bringing us all new music! Not that the rest of the tracks aren’t awesome, because they are, JER, Runaway Ricochet, WST Ska Orchestra, Small Town Get Up and the Fuss are also some of my very favorites, and favorites to share w/ you. Also the Moan, just discovered them and really wanted to share this track, hope you enjoy!

00:00 – Coolidge – I don’t Wanna Hang Out (Condition Transmission ’21)
01:56 – Cartoon Violence – Friend or Foe (Friend or Foe ’21)
05:18 – the Moan – Bang Bang (Why Wait for Love? ’20)
07:42 – JER – Breaking News! Local Punk Doubts Existence of Systemic Racism (Breaking News! Local Punk Doubts Existence of Systemic Racism ’20)
10:37 – Runaway Ricochet – Spunk (Gas Station Culture ’18)
14:05 – WST Ska Orchestra feat. Greg Lee & Alex Désert – Artibella (Big Band Tribute to the Skatalites, Vol. II ’15)
16:02 – Small Town Get Up – Beautiful (Time and Space ’21)
19:23 – the Fuss – On the Run (Ourselves ’18)

Show support for the bands by clicking on those links and checking out their websites and music! Show support for the podcast by liking & following the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
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23min of Ska : Episode of the Villain

Here’s an episode, a bunch of songs that either have titles of comic book villains, or make fit that theme in some way. They say a hero is only as good as his villains and that’s not wrong, even when the villain a world gone mad.

00:00 – Rudebeard – Disgrace (Disgrace ’20)
03:28 – Battle-Ska Galactica – Living a Lie (Living a Lie ’20)
07:17 – the Classy Wrecks – Superman (is Going to Hell) (Bedrocksteady ’18)
10:42 – Jim Murple Memorial – the Joker (Stella Nova ’17)
13:32 – Cartoon Violence – Black Cat (Passive Aggressive ’18)
16:39 – the Slackers – Two Face (Better Late than Never ’96)
21:01 – el Grande – Write My Wrongs (Brick City Sound ’19)

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
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Show support for the bands by clicking on those links and checking out their websites and music! Show support for the podcast by liking & following the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.

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23min of Ska : Put the Hammer Down

Are you ready for some hard-hitting, speedy as hell, unrelenting ska and ska/punk? If so, you are in luck! I went big and loud on this one, I just couldn’t help myself, it’s the mood I was in, and I hope you’ll agree that it’s all pretty rad. Also, how can you just sit and listen to this one? I couldn’t even sit still when I was putting this one together! Damn! Get it in your ears! Get outta yr seat and shake it!

00:00 – Madaline – Exit Strategy (“it is what it is” ’19)
03:15 – K-Man & the 45s – Paradoid Panic (Stand with the Youth ’19)
05:58 – the Re-Adjusters – Red (Rebound ’19)
08:55 – Cartoon Violence – Serpico (Passive Aggressive ’18)
11:36 – Bumsy and the Moochers – Six Months (Spaced Out ’18)
15:36 – Zéro Talent – 50% (Société Anonyme ’18)
18:01 – We Are The Union – Out of Patience (Self Care ’18)
20:23 – the Bruce Lee Band – Ms. Me (Community Support Group ’14)

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Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast the Ska After Party or to buy some records from our partners in crime over at Grandpa’s Casino Recordings, they carry some great vinyl ska records!

23min of Ska : Gumballs

Ska so good, it doesn’t need any commentary! But I’mma gonna give it anyway! This episode opens with a song from K-Man and the 45s album that coming out in April, pre-orders up now! I’ve also included a TON of recently released songs, as in released during this last month from Pocket Billards, Madaline, and the Middle Volga Social Club! Also propping up this killer episode are songs from the latest albums from Huge Puppies, Cartoon Violence and Popes of Chillitown. If that wasn’t enough, I dug through my collection and brought out two tracks I can’t believe I hadn’t shared with you all before from Waste Basket and BIM skala BIM! Enjoy!

00:00 – K-Man and the 45s – Stand with the Youth (Stand with the Youth ’19)
03:06 – Huge Puppies – Clockwise (Cynocracy ’17)
04:43 – Pocket Billiards – Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In (Troubles Edge ’19)
07:19 – Madaline – Oh  No (“it is what it is” ’19)
10:37 – the Middle Volga Social Club – Alexey Rodin (Alexey Rodin ’19)
13:23 – Waste Basket – Exploding World (Waste Basket ’12)
14:51 – Cartoon Violence – Amnesia (Passive Aggressive ’18)
17:33 – BIM skala BIM – Lorraine (Lost Lorraine ’13)
20:20 – Popes of Chillitown – Upside Down (Work Hard, Play Hard, See You in the Graveyard ’18)

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23min of Ska : Dive

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

– Henry A. Wallace

00:00 – Cartoon Violence – Out with the Old (Passive Aggression ’18)
04:03 – Call Me Malcolm – the Gentleman and the Onion (I was Broken when You got Here ’18)
07:59 – the Vulnerable – Obsessing (“Is There Acceptance?” ’16)
09:56 – Boomtown United – Outside (Boomtown United ’18)
13:14 – Black Market Beat – Ruby (Like a Fire ’18)
16:30 – Brainwreck – VHS (Charlie ’18)
20:17 – Behind Deadlines – Escape from Philadelphia (Status Quo ’16)

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23min of Ska : 14 lbs = 1 stone

Everyone knows that ska was created in Jamaica, but ska’s second home was Britain. Again, a fact that most ska fans know. The fun part about Great Britain is that island still is producing some of the best ska around. Here’s a small sample of these great bands! Be they English, Scottish or Welsh, they are putting out some great, great sounds!

00:00 – the Amphetameanies – Gut Punch (Last Chance Bordello ’14)
02:26 – the Skarsoles – Dead Beat World (When We Were Kings ’13)
04:57 – Drewvis – Let it Go (Disposable Pleasures and Meaningful Pursuits ’11)
08:05 – Cartoon Violence – Moscow (Tit for Tat ’13)
11:44 – the Stiff Joints – Bosh Bosh (Circus on Repeat ’13)
14:55 – the Talks – Don’t Look Behind You (Commoners, Peers, Drunks & Thieves ’14)
17:47 – Call Me Malcolm – It’s Not Me, It’s You (We did This to Ourselves ’14)
20:04 – New Town Kings – Pack Up Bye Bye (Pack Up By By ’15)

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23min of Ska : Live Coverage on WJLA

Ok, so I found a few awesome ska covers this week and I wanted to play them for you. Then one thing lead to another and this became an all ska cover show. Note: I’m a pretty damn hard sell on ska covers in general, so believe you me, this is the cream of the crop when it comes to covers! Now, press play and get ready to start dancing!

00:00 – Rude King – Cool Kids (A Fat Comp : a Fan-Made Tribute to Fat Wreck Chords ’15)
02:14 – Bombskare – Twist & Crawl (Specialized 2 : Beat Teenage Cancer ’13)
04:40 – Big D & the Kids Table – Old Friend (Hooligans United : a Tribute to Rancid ’15)
07:43 – Bomb the Music Industry! – If Assholes Got Awards, I’d Have a Trophy Case (Shine Some Light : a Benefit for Dan Lang-Gunn ’08)
10:20 – Cartoon Violence – House of Fun (Specialized 3 : Mad Not Cancer ’14)
12:17 – Reel Big Fish feat. Rachel Minton – Lyin’ Ass Bitch (Duet All Night Long ’07)
16:30 – the Holophonics – Radioactive (MaSKArades Vol. 3 ’13)
18:40 – Dan P. – a Moment of Silence (You by Me Vol. 1 ’10)

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23min of Ska : Order Tends Toward Chaos, Entropy Triumphs

At one time this was to be the final regular episode of 23min of Ska. After this episode was posted the angels were going to come down from heaven, sing a glorious blue beat tune that was to be next week’s end cap to the entire podcast. Sorry, you don’t get angels. You get this episode, which is not a game changer. It is a normal, everyday, awesome-sauce fun time, get down, 23min of Ska episode that doesn’t herald the end of this podcast. In fact it shall go on for quite a bit longer. This is the end of another set of 23 episodes, so it has that going for it, which is nice. Thanks for sticking with me, get ready to stick w/ me some more, to the point where you get sick of me, but not ska. No never stop loving ska, keep listening to that, even if you kick me to the curb! Also, thanks for all the love lately, it means a lot, and it literally keeps the podcast going!

00:00 – Bombskare – Hand of Fate (Fistful of Dynamite ’09)
04:24 – King Punch – the Big Smoke (Royal Flush ’14)
08:22 – Steady Earnest – Out of Line (Out of Line ’93)
12:27 – the Holophonics – Royals (MaSKArades Vol. 3 ’13)
17:27 – Cartoon Violence – Johnny Come Lately (Whatever Happened to the Likely Lad? ’09)

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23min of Ska : Communism for Fun and Profit

I hope all my fine listeners out there have been having a great week! I really do! It’s true, you’re all pretty great! Now, I’m not sure how much of you actually read these descriptions that I write, and I don’t blame you. Rarely do I impart some great blue beat wisdom, some ska secrets or the occasional rocksteady conspiracy, but it is a small outlet to contact all of you who take the time to read it. It’s like that liquid soap you buy at the hippie grocery mart that has writing all over the bottle that you never quite find yourself reading. You didn’t buy the soap or download this podcast for the reading, but isn’t it nice that it is still there anyway?

Cartoon Violence – Vauxhall Nova (What Ever Happened to the Likely Lad? ’09)
Bumpin Uglies – Morning After (Ninjah: Reggae Assasins ’13)
2000 Tons of TNT – Tiger Uppercut (Reggae Mysteria ’12)
Poor Jeremy – Dying Like a Fly in a Cup (Spare Change ’13)
Catch-It Kebabs – 5 Years (Return of Kebabulance ’07)
Squirt Gun Warriors – Lucky Hat (Lucky Hat / Give Me Something to Complain About ’12)
Santiago Downbeat – Fidel Castor (Santiago Downbeat ’12)

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