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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...
These days the skittery, danceable Caribbean musical genre known as ska comes in many forms, from the often entertaining punk-ska of groups such as Unwritten Law and Mephiskapheles to the chart-topping pop-ska of outfits like No Doubt. That's why Right on Time (Hellcat/Epitaph), a new album by the Los Angeles-based group Hepcat, is so refreshing: it returns the sound of ska to the warm Caribbean harbor of its origin. This isn't music for slam dancing; instead, Right on Time features songs for romance. The tracks on this album have the lean, classic lines...
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...
...festival's lineup features Maceo Parker,the John Spencer Blues Explosion, ska-punk bandFishbone and the Five Fingers of Funk.Dissatisfied with impressive assemblage of talentand a crowd of over 10,000, many UPenn studentshave complained that these bands lack the namerecognition of previous Spring Fling headliners...