Word: ska
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling at The Roxy last Saturday night. Coming off their best-selling album Zoot Suit Riot and the hit single of the same name, 1998 has been a good year for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Seattle-based band that mixes a swing-oriented style with genres such as ska and punk to create their own unique sound...
...splits throughout the entire set, singing all the while. Amidst their big swing hits--the current single "Brown Derby Jump," as well as "Ding Dong," "Daddy of the D-Car Line" and "When I Change Your Mind"--the Daddies interspersed their earlier work, often songs that were more ska or even punk than swing...
Before the Barenaked Ladies hit the big time, Boston's favorite sons, the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, were overplayed on KISS 107.9 and introduced the mainstream radio audience to ska. Rub elbows with these musical pioneers at Tower Records, as they accept a star on the landing (formerly known as the Walk of Fame). Probability of scoring an autograph? Pretty high, knock on wood. Tower Records, 360 Newbury St., 247-5900. FREE...
...Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full of emotional intensity. Doc controls this array as a pointillist might, coloring each song with an unusual palette of detail--the strum of a harp here, the sigh of a trumpet there--and arranges it all into a seamless backdrop. In this setting Esthero's sweet, bluesy...
Right on Time plays off nicely against Ska After Ska After Ska (Heartbeat), a new release compiling ska songs from the '60s by such pioneers as Justin Hinds, the Skatalites and others. Hepcat, which was formed in 1989, is a relative newcomer, but its album is proof that the music is still in good hands...