Tag Archives: the Slackers

23min of Ska : You’re Wondering Now…

This episode is full of true blue friends, fantastic acquaintances, a few online pals, and total strangers who’ve always done right by me & the show. One song I think is absolutely beautiful, and another one reduced me to tears the first time I heard it. Honestly, a lot of the tracks on this episode are contenders for former, but the latter is a rare song indeed.

00:00 – Razika – Taste My Dream (Program 91 ’11)
03:01 – the Pomps – Heart Flipper (Bottom of the Pomps ’23)
07:20 – the What Nows?! – When Will You Die? (GIANTS- A Ska Punk Tribute to They Might Be Giants comp ’22)
09:32 – Night Gaunts– Sunday (Conversations with Creation ’15)
13:12 – Corey Dixon and the Zvooks – Goodbye so Long (Come and Go ’01)
16:40 – the Slackers – I’ll Stay Away (Close Your Eyes ’03)
20:29 – King Kong 4 – It’s Quittin’ Time! (Songs for Olly ’18)

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23min of Ska was produced by RJ Phoenix

23min of Ska : the Sound is Ska & Bold

This is the episode for you Stan and Francine! It’s ska from all over the world, and it’s fantastic! It didn’t need to get a doctorate to prove its worth!

00:00 – Mr. Kingpin – Lightening in a Bottle (Introducing… Mr. Kingpin ’21)
03:19 – the Kinky Coo Coo’s – Hunch Beat (Sweet, Fun & Ready ’13)
06:23 – the Overits! – Fight the Fights (the Overits! EP ’22)
09:30 – Jackie Mendez – Red Flags (Red Flags ’22)
12:18 – SKAЛЬПЕЛЬ – Если Я (ВОВРЕМЯ (preview) ’22)
14:48 – the Slackers – Shameboy (Don’t let the Sunlight Fool Ya ’22)
16:21 – the Bumpkins Ska Club! – Old Skool (From Rurality with Love (démo 2022) ’22)
18:36 – HOLYSOUL – Set the Pace (Backyard Diaries ’10)

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
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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 : Six Word Song Title Gimmick Epiosde

This episode’s just six word songs.

00:00 – Joker’s Republic – Anxiety (Getting In My Own Head) (Necessary Evil ’22)
03:11 – the Bruce Lee Band – Did You Find the Money Farm? (One Step Forward. Two Steps Back. ’22)
06:12 – the Slackers – Don’t Let the Sunlight Fool Ya (Don’t Let the Sunlight Fool Ya ’22)
09:23 – the Reseters – I Left My Love On Frontline (내 사랑은 최전방에 ’21)
12:47 – Alex Dominish – There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You (FOLDS – a Ska Tribute to Ben Folds comp ’22)
17:01 – the Georgetown Orbits – Same Love That Make Me Laugh (Better Off Dead ’21)
20:11 – Double Play – You Wont Take My Dog Away (First Time Alone ’21)

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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
Thanks to Camille for sharing Lunchbox with us for this episode!

23min of Ska : Keeping it Hep

On January 23rd, 2010 I posted my first episode of 23min of Ska online. It was a bit of fun and I thought I’d do a few episodes a month for a few years, get it out of my system, and move on. Get what out of my system? Why, to share ska w/ folks! Well, I should’ve known that idea was flawed, if I wanted to end after a short time, because (spoiler) I LOVE SHARING SKA w/ FOLKS, so here we are, 12 years later… and whoa… yeah… 12 years… I’ve moved 3 times and have gotten married since I started this thing… I don’t know what to do w/ that info other than say, I hope all of you all are enjoying it, and happy anniversary to 23min of Ska!

00:00 – Voluntary Hazing – Reciprocate Some (Reciprocate Some ’22)
03:10 – the Slackers – I Almost Lost You (Windowland / I Almost Lost You ’21)
05:43 – Norsk Råkk – De Beste Laget (Balansekunstnere ’20)
07:09 – the Co-Operators & Perkie – Concrete, Steel & Stone (Beating the Doldrums ’20)
12:22 – the Operators – Lil Darlin’ (Leave the Light On ’21)
16:32 – Smoke & Mirrors Soundsystem – I’m a Man (Mi Vida Sin Tu Amor / I’m a Man ’21)
20:11 – the Third-Rates – Roller Coasters (Fate Fell Short: a Blink-182 Compilation comp ’22)

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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, 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 : 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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, 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 : Holiday Special

You know it’s that time of year again… holiday season! And this year… well, we’ve been blessed with so many new ska and ska/punk holiday songs! Honestly, it was hard to whittle it down to these selections, and I finally got to fit on the Slackers playing “Dreidel” (mainly because I managed to get this episode out during Hanukkah this year!) but I think I ok, I hope you enjoy this bonus gift of an episode this week!

00:00 – the Intercepteurs – It’s Snowing on the TV (It’s Snowing on the TV ’20)
03:26 – Cut Capers – All Alone on Christmas (All Alone on Christmas ’20)
05:12 – the Magnetics – Christmas Present (Christmas Present ’20)
07:55 – the Slackers – Dreidel (Hanukkah ’09)
11:14 – Alex Dominish – Winter Wishing (Winter Wishing ’20)
14:02 – Mr. Incommunicado ft. Haley Green – Have a Merry Christmas (Have a Merry Christmas ’20)
17:26 – We Are The Union – I’m Working Retail for Christmas (I’m Working Retail for Christmas ’20)
20:00 – Super Hi-Fi – Auld Lang Syne (Yule Analog Vol. 1 ’14)

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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.

Enjoy this episode? Save it and unwrap it each year around this time!

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

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

23min of Ska Cross Over : This I Know with Josh and Joe

When I started off this nutty run of crossover episodes, I started w/ Josh from This I Know with Josh and Joe, so now it’s Joe’s turn to help me finish it off. I’ve known Joe since he was a baby. He’s my cousin and I love him. I was going to make fun of him and put up super goofy picture of him, but I took the high road! Once you’re done w/ this go listen to the hilariously fun podcast he and Josh do!

00:00 – Days N Daze – Flurry Rush (Show Me the Blueprints. ’20)
02:46 – the Aquabats! – the Story of Nothing (Fury of the Aquabats! ’97)
05:37 – Mike Park w/ Brittany Luna of Catbite – You Feel Like You’re in Quicksand (You Feel Like You’re in Quicksand ’20)
08:09 – Jimmy Cliff – the Harder They Come (the Harder They Come soundtrack ’72)
11:46 – the Mighty Mighty Bosstones – They Will Need Music (the Magic of Youth ’11)
15:31 – Less Than Jake – Spirit of ’20 (Lost at Home Sessions ’20)
17:46 – the Slackers – They are Losing (They are Losing ’20)
21:56 – Reel Big Fish – Another F.U. Song (Monkeys for Nothing and Chimps for Free ’07

Download this and listen at any time in the future you wish.

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

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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.

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
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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, 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!

23min of Ska : 23 Minutes of Four Color Ska

art credit: Richard Bruning, Josh Beatman & John SimsOk, here we are, ready to start another 23 episode cycle of 23min of Ska! As always, I hope you are ready to join in on music, find some new bands, and remember older ones… but not too much older. As you can see from this playlist, I try to keep it pretty current with just a handful of tracks from the past. So yeah, in the next 23 episodes you’re going to hear a lot of new ska, and yeah, there’s going to be a bit of a “comics” theme going on (hopefully not too annoying) but I hope you stick around if it’s your first time listening, and if not, thanks for coming back, I mean that! Thanks for listening and keeping up with the show!

00:00 – the Bruce Lee Band – Superman (the Bruce Lee Band ’97)
01:15 – Ongoing Issue – No Worries (No Worries ’20)
02:50 – the Bandulus – Flash Flood (Love a Woman ’19)
05:40 – OMNIGONE – On Wednesdays I am Going to Make it (No Faith ’19)
06:44 – Reel Big Fish – Punisher (Candy Coated Fury ’12)
10:43 – Jim Murple Memorial – Funnel of Love (4 ’20)
14:46 – Dan P. – Brain Scrambling Device (Brain Scrambling Device ’20)
16:23 – the Slackers – the Question (Larry MacDonald Percussion Version) (Rarities 1996 – 2000 ’20)
19:54 – Atwood 9 – Go Man Go (Atwood 9 ’98)

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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunesGoogle Play, and Stitcher.

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23min of Ska is produced weekly by RJ Phoenix
Episode artwork heavily inspired by: Richard Bruning, Josh Beatman & John Sims
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 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 : Watch Out for Smokey

23skaTRUCKERsmokeyThis episode was a lot more… let’s say laid back when I started it… but, it couldn’t stand… it just didn’t feel right. So I started switching out songs, and switching out more… and more… and eventually I had an all different episode… and episode that feels right, I hope you all agree.

Keep fighting the good fight.

I love you all.

00:00 – Dang!t – Kids in Cages (What do You Know About Ska Punk? Vol. 4 comp ’20)
03:01 – Thirsty Guys – Quarantine (Quarantine ’20)
06:05 – Bruce Lee Band – It Never was Quite Like This (Rental!! Eviction!! ’19)
07:33 – Big D & the Kids Table – Try Out Your Voice (Strictly Rude ’07)
10:17 – the Suicide Machines – Babylon of Ours (Revolution Spring ’20)
12:49 – Abraskadabra – the Dream (Welcome ’18)
15:09 – Call Me Malcolm – a Beginner’s Guide to Fighting a Losing Battle (Me, Myself and Something Else ’20)
19:22 – the Slackers – Walking On (Wasted Days ’01)

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 FacebookTwitterInstagram, and at 23ska.com. Also, feel free to subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunesGoogle Play, and Stitcher.

And hey, click here to download this episode if you wanna keep it forever.

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

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