23min of Ska : Skaliath

Sometimes you get an idea for an episode and you just have to go for it… right? Well I hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I did when putting it together.

00:00 – Coolidge – We’re Alright (Condition Transmission ’21)
03:11 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Older Now (When We Were Fearless ’18)
06:11 – Hans Gruber and the Die Hards – You’re Being Watched (With a Vengeance ’22)
07:58 – Unscandal – Get Up (Forca! ’08)
11:28 – Fishbone – ? (Modern Industry) (Fishbone ’85)
15:40 – Johnny Socko – I Gotta Go (live) (Triple Live ’02)
18:00 – Bandog – House of Fun (Gangska ’97)
19:59 – Booboo’zzz All Stars ft. Guive – It’s Not Unusual (Studio Reggae Bash ’17)

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
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23min of Ska : the Mysterious Old Guy at the Back of the Pit

Holy heck, it’s just about been 11 years of 23min of Ska madness! I can’t believe I’ve kept it going this long! But it’s all thanks to great listeners and great ska & ska/punk bands! You all give me the energy to keep going, and I thank you! Alright, now get ready for another great episode, and remember how awesome you are!

00:00 – BoomTown United – How I Feel (Tuffer Than I ’20)
02:47 – Maria Blues – Tonight (Look Who It Is ’19)
06:23 – Dan P. and the Bricks – Kung Fu (When We Were Fearless ’18)
08:54 – los Kurados – Politeista (Multicultural ’17)
10:57 – Skata Tones – In Town Pop Sound (Celebrity ’20)
13:22 – Andy B and the World – Follow the Streetlights (the First One ’21)
17:05 – the Circle City Deacons – Where’d She Go? (Where’d She Go? ’20)
20:21 – aRevo – Schware Hockn (Weiter Geht’s ’17)

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23min of Ska : No Evil Shall Escape My Sight

About a year and a half ago I had some surgery which ended up putting me on some pretty heavy painkillers for a few days. During this time, going in and out of sleep I started reading Geoff Johns’ “Green Lantern” run. It would only be a few pages here and there in and out of my head, but it oddly helped and finally got me to be down with Hal Jordan. Hey, I was a teen in the ’90s, Kyle has always been my boy. All in all, I hope you’re down for this episode full of some fantastic music!

00:00 – Corey Dixon – We Wanna See a Solution (Roots) (We Wanna See a Solution ’20)
03:04 – the KING LION – In the Green (BLANK ’19)
06:12 – the Stiff Joints – Dead Yellow Elephant (First Proper Album ’17)
09:45 – WST Ska Orchestra – Red is Danger (Big Band Tribute to the Skatalites Vol. II ’15)
14:12 – Dan P. and the Bricks – Map of the Stars (Watch Where You Walk ’12)
17:21 – P-Funk North – All My Heroes are Potheads (All My Heroes are Potheads ’20)
20:17 – the Pinstripes – Everybody (the Decay ’07)

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
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Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast On the Upbeat!

23min of Ska : Caramel

What I loved about ska shows back in the mid-’90s was that you really didn’t know what you were going to get. A more traditional ska band, a ska/punk band that was more punk than ska, a 2 Tone revival sounding band, a ska/punk band that was more ska than punk, a band with 4 members, a band with 10 members, a band full of high schoolers or a band full of actual adults! It really was all over the map like that, and the thing that brought those bands to our towns and the crowds to the venues was the ska that was at the center, in some way, of it all. This episode represents that love of all things ska that I had as a young man encountering shows not knowing exactly what I was going to see, but at the same time knowing that I was going to dig it!

Also, check this out! This episode kicks off with a brand brand new song from the New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble from their forthcoming album “Break Thru” (click the link for the pre-order), followed by a song of the latest release from Joker’s Republic before moving on to a new song from the Pomps that will be the lead track of their new EP “Drums and Liars” due out next month.

00:00 – New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble – Chicky Chicky Boom Boom (Break Thru ’19)
02:54 – Joker’s Republic – Grow Up (Falling Behind ’19)
06:13 – the Pomps – P.A.D.D. (Drums and Liars ’19)
08:50 – the Crombies – Hooligans (One Love ’17)
11:19 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Only Words (When We Were Fearless ’18)
13:14 – the Delirians – Dream of Me (el Remedio ’18)
17:23 – Royal City Riot – the Rhythm (Coast to Coast ’09)
20:49 – Mustard Plug – Perfect Plan (Can’t Contain It ’14)

Show support for the bands by clicking on those links and checking out their websites and music! Show support for the podcast by finding & liking 23min of Ska on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.

Also, feel free to download this episode if you wanna keep it forever.

What to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
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Another way to support the podcast is 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 : Launched

“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, “Americanism”…”

– Professor Halford E. Luccock

00:00 – the Toasters – Radiation Skank (Recriminations ’85)
02:02 – les Skartoi feat. Bebis – As One (24 Hours ’18)
05:21 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Terrible (When We were Fearless ’18)
08:17 – the Royal Architects – Tell Me Why (the Brooklyn Sessions ’18)
12:50 – Death of Guitar Pop – Rickety Old Train (69 Candy Street ’17)
16:59 – the Middle Volga Social Club – I want to be Your Friend (I want to be Your Friend ’18)
19:46 – Abraskadabra – To the Stars (Welcome to the B Side ’18)

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23min of Ska : Twister

Oh man, this episode was so close to not coming out at all! Seriously, big hardware failure over here! But things got figured out and BAM! It. Is. Ska time!

00:00 – King Kong Girio – Storm of the Century (King Kong Girio EP 2 ’18)
03:00 – the Siren Six – If You’re Not Now (You Never Were) (Young & Professional ’98)
05:45 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Word Got Around (When We Were Fearless ’18)
07:35 – the Holophonics – Try Me On (Phantom Arrival ’18)
10:28 – Call Me Malcolm – Inside Out (I Was Broken When You Got HereI Was Broken When You Got Here ’18)
13:40 – the Ladrones – Salve (Salve ’18)
17:18 – Monkey – Glass Bottom Boat (Intermittent Waves ’18)
20:28 – the Pomps – That’s Where I Come In (the Smoking Pomps ’17)

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23min of Ska : Out & Back

Look, the new theme is roller coasters. The best songs, like life, take you for a ride. Get used to it. Here’s a bunch of pretty damn new tracks for you to enjoy, hope you like this episode and the next 22! Thanks for listening!

00:00 – Derrick Morgan & Charlie Organaire – There Stands the Glass (There Stands the Glass ’18)
02:58 – the b Sharps – Invincible (Plan B’s Get Degrees ’18)
05:41 – the Interrupters – She’s Kerosene (Fight the Good Fight ’18)
08:28 – the Filaments – Rip-Off World (Look to the Skies ’18)
10:49 – Steady 45’s – Charlie Brown (Birth of the Fourth Wave ’18)
13:11 – the Classy Wrecks feat. Cassondra Marie – In the Evening (Bedrocksteady ’18)
15:48 – Dan P. and the Bricks – Weak at Heart (When We Were Fearless ’18)
18:05 – Ocean Breeze Tropical Club – Take it All (What is in Front of You is Not What You See ’17)

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Also, feel free to download this episode if you wanna keep it forever.

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23min of Ska : the Coming Four Horsemen

The theme is the end. The Apocalypse is an end. The horsemen come and herald the end. The theme for this episode is fours and endings. I didn’t think about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse until I was trying to think of a better name for this episode than “Nothing Lasts Four Ever” and now I feel I wasted a perfectly good theme. Well… maybe I’ll come back to it some day… I mean… I’m not really going to end 23min of Ska am I?

00:00 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Connecting Four (Watch Where You Walk ’12)
02:12 – the Smooths – Farewell (No Breaks ’98)
04:59 – Skandalous All-Stars – Waiting for the End (Age of Insects ’99)
07:44 – the Jinkies – Kiss Me Goodbye (the Jinkies ’97)
11:19 – Save Ferris – Goodbye (It Means Everything ’97)
14:54 – the Good Skamaritans – the Way That You Do (Let’s Rawk ’02)
17:36 – the Hotknives – Last Song on the Jukebox (Screams, Dreams and Custard Creams ’00)

Show support for the bands by clicking on those links and checking out their websites and music! Show support for the podcast by finding & liking 23min of Ska on facebook as well as follow on twitter.

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Beat the Dealer : RudeBoyBill’s 23min

I put the challenge out there, and that challenge was to come up w/ your own episode of “23min of Ska” and see if you can beat me at my own game. Whether or not you think that RudeBoyBill pulled that off is up to you, but he is golden in my eyes for being the only person to step up to the plate for this! This is a great episode of “23min of Ska” with a lot of young eager bands to listen to! Get it cued up and have some fun! Thanks again RudeBoyBill!

Gamblers Die Broke – Mama Say #2 (EP ’11)
Don’t Mess With Winkie – What’s Happening, Hot Stuff? (Self Titled ’11)
Murphy’s Kids – Dusty Trail (the Anthemic Pandemic ’11)
Hatrick Penry – Model Rocket (Hatrick Penry EP ’12)
Sunny Side Up – Never Gonna Be (Sunny Side Up EP ’11)
Storming Stages and Stereos – Rushmore (Surviving Your Reflection ’11)
Dan P. & the Bricks – One Reason (Watch Where You Walk ’12)

If you’re in a ska band and would like to be interviewed or have a song featured, please email me at radjose[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Hey, be a pal, check out these ska records that I’m making over at the Big Ska Gamble! Thanks again RudeBoyBill!

23min of Ska : Sun Set Ska

At the end of the day yesterday I was standing in line waiting for my car, that’s right, at 11:59 PM I was saying “Where the hell is my crappy car?” jokingly to a small crowd of ska fans. How did I know they were ska fans? Well, I’d just spend the last few hours dancing, drinking and singing along w/ this group of like minded individuals at the Summer of Ska tour. I can honestly say it was a great time! I haven’t been to a ska show on that level in a long time, and it didn’t disappoint! Thanks, Suburban Legends, Big D & the Kids Table and Reel Big Fish for putting on a hell of a show in Hollywood last night! This episode is dedicated to all the crazy awesome ska fans I met there last night! Like Matt, Ro, Edwardo, the kid who looked like Percy Jackson & his two friends and a big kudos to Brian Klemm, who remains the nicest guy in the world.

Razika – Nytt Pa Nytt (Program 91 ’11)
the Delirians – Agua De Limon (the Delirians ’12)
the Amphetameanies – Desert Culture (Now! That’s What I Call the Amphetameanies ’06)
Big D & the Kids Table – (We All Have to) Burn Something (How it Goes ’04)
Dan P. & the Bricks – Sweat for It (Watch Where You Walk ’12)
the First Chairs – It’s Okay (Plastic & Prestige ’12)
Show Me Island – So Long for Something (MV:MMXII ’12)
Reel Big Fish – What are Friends For (Cheer Up! ’04)

If you’re in a ska band and would like to be interviewed or have a song featured, please email me at radjose[at]gmail[dot]com.

This episode and all episodes can always be found here. You can also subscribe to the podcast by going to your advanced tab on iTunes, then select “subscribe to podcast…” and entering this address: http://23minofska.podomatic.com/rss2.xml into the box that opens. Also if you’d like, find & like us on facebook. Take this episode w/ you, download it!

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