23min of Ska : …What To Do…

This past Monday was the 13th birthday of 23min of ska… that seems ominous!

When was the last time you heard a ska podcast that wasn’t put there by them?

00:00 – Lo(u)ser feat. the Ruffolos – Sound the Alarm (Sound the Alarm ’23)
02:40 – Stop the Presses – Finish Last (Money in the Bank ’19)
06:30 – Salome Fur – Game over (Scatter Lights ’21)
10:38 – the Inevitables – Over and Out (Over and Out ’21)
13:43 – Behind Deadlines – Fade Out (Farew ’22)
16:15 – the Amphetameanies – the Funeral Pyre (Gifted – A Tribute to the Jam comp ’17)
20:07 – Upbeat Allstars – Not Coming Back (Wake Up! ’12)

Art by Brian Bolland

What is a podcast? Is it something you save for future listens?

23min of Ska was produced by RJ Phoenix

23min of Ska : Three Word Songs

Ska is good!

Listen to ska!

Enjoy yourself, friend!

00:00 – Chupaskabra – As it Was (As it Was ’22)
02:30 – One Night Band – Rolling the Dice (Way Back Home ’06)
06:35 – PINK SLIP – I Smell Burning (PINK SLIP ’22)
09:56 – Port Royal – the Last Dictator (Ska Machine ’22)
13:10 – the Inevitables feat. Howi Spangler – Living Hell (Living Hell ’21)
16:58 – Proyecto Secreto – Stepping in Circles (Stepping in Circles ’22)

Wanna keep this episode forever? Download, buddy!

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
(no Spotify or Youtube links please)
Send me a pic of yr cat! Include the kitties name! I may use it in future episode art! Email: podcast@23ska.com

23min of Ska : Ska’s Got Moxie

Woah, what a year it’s been! There’s been so much great and fun ska that’s come out in last few years! Oh yes, it’s been an embarrassment of riches and never been a better time than to be a ska fan! And blah, blah, blah, it’s late, I’m tired, I don’t think anyone reads these, so I’m gonna be direct… I think these songs are all both and worth your ear’s time, so listen up you slackers!

00:00 – Dani Radic with the Slackers – Let Me Be (Dani Radic with the Slackers ’21)
02:51 – Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra – Nostalgic Ska (Tombstone ’21)
05:26 – Half Past Two – Holiday (Holidays ’21)
08:14 – Paul the Kid – FUCK YOUR NEW TONE (FUCK YOUR NEW TONE ’21)
11:30 – THE JAMÓNS – Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia (Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia ’20)
14:04 – the Inevitables – When the Fever Breaks (When the Fever Breaks ’21)
16:48 – Flying Raccoon Suit – 3 Raceways & Wario Stadium (Skario Kart: A Ska Tribute to Mario Kart 64 comp ’21)
19:53 – Eskapart – gruba dupa (Wasted Brains ’21)

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.

Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast On the Upbeat!

Download this episode so you can listen to it any time you’d like!

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
(no Spotify or Youtube links please)
Have something else to say? Email: podcast@23ska.com

23min of Ska : Jonesing for Some Ska

What more can I say about this great batch of ska/punk that the music isn’t saying itself? That’s right, I can’t! So listen up, because I’m not telling you again!

00:00 – Half Past Two – Scratched CD (Scratched CD ’21)
03:17 – Joker’s Republic – Bacon (9/11 for Peace comp ’21)
06:06 – Kmoy – Precure Love (Precure Love ’21)
08:59 – Abraskadabra – Cattle Life (Make Yourself at Home ’21)
11:45 – the Inevitables – Tiki Bar at the End of the World (Doomsday Florida ’21)
13:44 – Raus Aus Mein’ Haus – Kein Applaus (Bla Bla Bla Irgendwas Mit SKA ’21)
17:04 – DeadBeat at Dawn – Green Inferno (Dyscopia ’21)
20:20 – Utolsó Alkalom – Jól csengő egészség (Laci sütödéje ’21)

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.

Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast On the Upbeat!

Download this episode so you can listen to it any time you’d like!

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
Have something else to say? Email: podcast@23ska.com

23min of Ska : Dandy Suits Spell Doom

What a fun episode to wrap up February with! I’ve been meaning to play you about half these songs for some time now, and I finally got them to fit together this week! As always, I hope you dig, and if you do, tell a friend! Let’s all share our love of ska, so more folks can get a taste of these bands and know what we know, ska bands are awesome!

00:00 – the Abruptors – Who, What, Where (Who, What, Where ’21)
03:14 – Ska Jazz Messengers feat. Joey Altruda – Up & Down (Introspección ’20)
05:38 – the Inevitables – the American Me (in Me) (the Inevitables versus the Youth City Sound System ’21)
08:49 – Soul Radics – Perfidia (Radication ’16)
12:08 – the Rocksteady Conspiracy – I Would Say No (I Would Say No / Today ’18)
15:37 – the Delegators – Crying (All Aboard ’13)
18:43 – Cosmic Shuffling – Night in Palermo (Magic Rocket Ship ’20)

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.

Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast On the Upbeat!

Download this episode and listen to it whenever you dig

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
Have something else to say? Email: podcast@23ska.com

23min of Ska : Journey into Amazing Tales of the Uncanny

Ok, it’s back to just me, your pal RJ Phoenix to ride out the rest of the year with on this podcast! I love so many of the songs on this week’s episode that I had a little too much silly fun w/ the art and title… in which I botched making the title of the episode more visual than the name of the podcast… eh, win some, lose some! Enjoy!

00:00 – Eat the Evidence – Human Beings (Sex, Drugs & Wishy Washy Politics ’17)
03:27 – the Inevitables – Barely Kids (the Inevitables ’20)
06:34 – Brainwreck – Think of Phoenix (Charlie ’18)
08:22 – MU330 – the Punisher / Downtown (Chumps on Parade ’96)
13:04 – Call Me Malcolm – Also, Spiders (Me, Myself and Something Else ’20)
16:22 – Yum!Yum!ORANGE – CARTOON HEROES (Orange Juice ’04)
19:40 – the Vengers – Suite N-3 (Push This? ’95)

Another way to support this podcast is to listen to and support our sister podcast On the Upbeat!

Download this episode for future listening!

23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Want to submit your band? Email: submissions@23ska.com
Have something else to say? Email: podcast@23ska.com

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.