Recent Posts Tagged With 'podcasts'

• The State of Ska Blah Blah

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 18:25 in podcasts, interviews, site update, special episode

  I’ve come to the end of another series of interviews.  Small Talk concluded with just as much punch as it began with- and I am honored to have spoken with each and every artist featured within. I know the site has been wonky with Safari and Op...

• Ska Blah Blah: Small Talk - Episode 5 - The Aggrolites

  Posted on Thursday July 17th, 2008 at 00:04 in podcast, interview, podcasts, after hours, tim armstrong, aggrolites, skinhead reggae, derrick morgan, brian dixon, rhythm doctors

  Brian Dixon has been a major influence in LA’s Ska and Reggae scene for years now.  He’s been a key player in the Rhythm Doctors and the After Hours project- his latest thing is a little band you might have heard of- called The Aggrolite...

• Ska Blah Blah: Small Talk - Episode 4 - The Impalers

  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 22:38 in podcast, interview, podcasts, skinhead reggae, impalers, axe records, skankin' pickle

  Lars Nylander, once the great valve T-bone player for Skankin’ Pickle and now the (even greater) keyboadist to the Impalers, talked to me at length for this episode of Small Talk.  We discuss the maturation of his music as well as the producti...

• Ska Blah Blah: Small Talk Episode 03 - Babylon Party Machine

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 15:05 in podcast, interview, podcasts, interviews, babylon party machine, matt wixson

  This episode, Matt Wixson- former keyboardist to the Flaming Tsunamis. He’s the one and only member of Babylon Party Machine, an electro-Ska experiment who (last year) released two albums online. For free. At once, Wixson’s music can se...

• A Look Back at The Skatalites Middle Period

  Posted on Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at 16:09 in podcast, podcasts, album review, reggae sunsplash, skatalites, live sets, king tubby, lee perry, ska history, black ark, mittoo

  Officially speaking, The Skatalites were only together from 1963 thru 1965. Since 1989, the surviving members have stayed together (to varying degrees) in response to their then growing worldwide audience. But the years between ‘65 and ‘...

• Ska Blah Blah: Small Talk Episode 02 - Green Room Rockers

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 18:27 in podcast, interview, podcasts, ska, interviews, green room rockers, acoustic ska

  If you’ve been following the scene this past year- If you read blogs like this or Musical Occupation- If you lurk around forums like Dancin’ Mood or Chatty Mouth- then you’ve surely heard the buzz surrounding Indiana’s own, ...

• Ska Blah Blah: Small Talk Episode 01 - Victor Axelrod

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 14:07 in podcast, Dub, interview, podcasts, latin, interviews, amy winehouse, lily allen, small talk, antibalas, dap-kings, ticklah

  Your eyes have not deceived you- It is a new series for Ska Blah Blah. This time around, the interviews are a bit shorter and the artists are a bit newer. I’ve also broadened the focus from mere Ska Revivalism to a more encompassing umbrella ...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 06 - Even Newer Ska

  Posted on Monday November 12th, 2007 at 22:54 in podcasts, slackers, bedouin soundclash, deal's gone bad, ticklah

  Way back before Episode 01 of Cut the Chit Chat I had scoured the internet trying to find the newest bands and the newest tracks. But I always felt the episode still wasn’t reflective of the unique time/space location that is late 2007. Luc...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 05 -Ska Demos (RERELEASE)

  Posted on Friday November 9th, 2007 at 15:24 in podcasts

  It’s the day after the sites big move, and the only major issue I’ve discovered is a broken link to my most recent episode of Cut the Chit Chat. After tweeking the original post a million times, to no avail, I’ve decided to repost...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 05 -Ska Demos

  Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 21:57 in podcasts, slackers, tim armstrong, hepcat, vic ruggiero

  This Episode of Cut the Chit Chat isn’t the pretteiest or the most accessible; I’ve made- but it’s one that I’ve been dying to make for a long time. The reason being that I’m an amateur tape trader, and I get very few...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 04 - Ska Rap

  Posted on Monday October 1st, 2007 at 16:48 in podcasts, oddity, wyclef, tim armstrong, vic ruggiero

  This episode was born from a post I submitted a few months ago, where I told you all about a strange Acid House/Ska remix record I found. After that, I found a bunch of other tracks that feature a similar DJ meets Ska sort of mash-up. You’ll ...

• Field Trip - Ska Weekend ‘07 - Special Episode

  Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2007 at 17:43 in podcasts

  I drove from St. Louis to Knoxville, TN to attend the big Ska Weekend, in the hopes of snagging a few interviews and catching a bunch of live sets from today’s top Ska artists. And wouldn’t you know it? I did just that. While this pie...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 03 - Hard Edged Dub

  Posted on Tuesday September 11th, 2007 at 10:59 in Dub, podcasts

  Maybe I’ve had the wrong impression for a long time, but I had always seen Dub Reggae as chill-out music- something to be passively and herbally enjoyed. Dub is a Weapon was the first band, that I encountered, to change the vibe from relaxi...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 02 - Skinhead Reggae

  Posted on Wednesday August 22nd, 2007 at 17:11 in podcasts, skinhead

  These days, it seems like a most of the bands that had been releasing straight ska albums, several years ago, are now cutting their fair share of Skinhead Reggae tracks. Sure, the popularity of the Aggrolites has probably spurred this on, but maybe...

• Cut the Chit Chat - 01 - New Ska

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 21:21 in podcasts, slackers

  My next series of interviews is still a ways off, so I thought I’d try to keep everyone interested by running an all-music series. Look forward to episodes featuring Skinhead Reggae, Dub Revivalism, and more. In this episode, I play some of ...