Word: ska
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shawn Feeney: I started doing electronic music in junior high. I learnt piano and bass guitar in high school and was in a death metal band, a progressive punkcore band, a jazz group and Jon's ska band. Oh yeah, I played in Omnipresence, a live hip-hop group last year. All sorts of genres...
...player. I'm from around here and since high school I've been playing in a ska band. We've put out some albums and had some tours...
...real artist in his own right, and together Ian Steams, Reggie Martell, Ty Gibbons '00 and Frisbay create a unique sound. It is hard to succinctly describe a song set that included jazz breakdowns, a slide didgeridoo, the drummer on vocals and a jig. Some lounge, some first wave ska and some B.B. King slipped through, but most palpable was the band's cohesion and experience. Hailing from Brattleboro, Vt., the four began playing together in high school and have been performing professionally (in various forms) since 1993 throughout New England and at many festivals. This long history has made...
...Gerald, 21, lives in the underground music scene. When he is not riding, he is putting together a band that is a mix of old-school hardcore, thrash, metal, punk, dub, ska, some reggae, rockabilly--just the stuff he listens to. When he was six, his babysitter took him to a hardcore Bad Rings house party and hid him with earmuffs under the stage, and he has been a punk all the way ever since...
...pulsating renditions of such hits as Fly Away, Kravitz deftly blended '70s rock, '70s soul and late-'90s cool. Fans kept standing even during the slow songs. But while the talented Kravitz was victorious, his main opening act, Smash Mouth, mounted a mushy set that mixed pop, punk and ska and created the musical equivalent of the stew of food particles you scoop out of the drain after you've washed the dishes...