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Live Review: Bluesfest, Byron Bay (14-18 April, 2022)- Despite Covid-19 Cancellations and Devastating Floods – Still Australia’s Best Festival Experience

Following cancellations in both 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 and the devastating floods in Northern New South Wales in March 2022, Bluesfest came back in its’ 33rd iteration, bigger…

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Album Review: Various Artists: Hot Sauce 2 ; 14 gems from the vaults of Trojan Records’ labels 1965-1975

Harlem Shuffle are fast becoming one of our favourite labels specialists in killer reggae reissues and the brilliant Hot Sauce compilation we reviewed a while back. They’re back with a…

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News: Free Live Stream From Matamoska, 22nd May

Los Angeles-based ska/punks Matamoska are bringing you a special FREE LIVE STREAM on Saturday, May 22nd. Music kicks off at 8pm PST, Watch it Live at mygrito.net Based in Los Angeles’, Matamoska are considered “OG’s” of the current ska/punk revival…

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Album Review: The Spitfires – Life Worth Living

In my formative years I was madly in love with what is termed as the second wave of ska – bands like The Specials, Madness and The Beat. There was…

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Not Forgotten: Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1

In the eighties Madness were massive; kids loved ’em, your gran loved ’em. They scored hit after hit. While The Specials were personifying the grim zeitgeist of Thatcherite Britain in…

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See: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones reveal new video for Wonderful Day for the Race

Ahead of their tenth studio album While We’re At It, mixed by Grammy ward winning producer Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Lucero, The Bouncing Souls, The Gaslight Anthem), ska…

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Track: Amber Bugs – David Dimbleby

Noisy London three piece Amber had a motto upon entering the recording studio. “If it can’t be done live, it can’t be done”. It was from this motto that their…

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News: Prince Buster, An Obituary 1938 – 2016

Ska and Rocksteady pioneer Prince Buster died on the 8th of September, at his home in Miami at the age of 78. Cited as creating the ska sound when he…

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News: RIP John Bradbury – The Specials

I was 11 when I first really got in to music. As a young impressionable kid, I not only wanted to make an impression I was looking for an identity.…

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Live: THE SELECTER – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 8-3-15

“Are you ready to have a good time?” It’s a question that Pauline Black knows the answer to before it’s left her lips. The Selecter are in town and it’s…

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