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Ska Boom - An American Ska & Reggae Podcast
Episodes — page 6
- Ska Boom-Episode 011: The Hooters & All You Zombies
My forthcoming book Ska Boom: An American Ska & Reggae Oral History will feature 19 chapters that tell the stories of important bands -- some well known, others not so much -- who…
- Ska Boom-Episode 010: MTV Skaturday
Those of you of a certain age may remember that during Memorial Day weekend of 1997, MTV set up shop at an abandoned aquatic park outside Los Angeles and converted it into the set…
- Ska Boom-Episode 009: Dance Craze
As I worked on researching and writing Ska Boom: An American Ska & Reggae Oral History, two films were mentioned by many of the musicians I interviewed: one was the 1972 Jamaican c…
- Ska Boom-Episode 008: The Max's Kansas City Ska & Reggae Story
On this episode of the Ska Boom podcast, I tell the untold story of how a band of reggae obsessed kids from New Jersey --The Terrorists -- backed a Jamaican ex-pat saxophonist who…
- Ska Boom-Episode 007: What is American Ska?/Matt Wixson
In this episode of Ska Boom I speak to Matt Wixson, who is a singer, songwriter, musician, podcaster, and improviser from Ferndale, MI. We discuss the current state of American sk…
- Ska Boom-Episode 006: Lynval Golding Part 2
I’m excited to share part two of my two-part interview with Lynval Golding of The Specials. In part one, Lynval shared his take on the final days of The Specials and the events tha…
- Ska Boom-Episode 005: Lynval Golding Part 1
I’m excited to share part one of a two-part interview I conducted with Lynval Golding for the Ska Boom podcast. Lynval is best known as the rhythm guitarist and vocalist with the…
- Ska Boom-Episode 004: The Checkerboard Kids Show/Phil DeJean
In this episode of Ska Boom I speak to Phil DeJean, (AKA: Checker Phil) who is a New York City ska icon. If you've been to a big NYC ska show then you've seen Phil. He's hard to mi…
- Ska Boom-Episode 003: The Specials in America/Paul Williams
The spirit of The Specials hover over nearly every chapter of my forthcoming book Ska Boom: An American Ska & Reggae Oral History. The band's two star-crossed tours of America in 1…
- Ska Boom-Episode 002: Skavoovee Tour of '93/Wayne Lothian
In this episode of Ska Boom I speak to Wayne Lothian, who is a musician and producer and has played bass for the Special Beat, General Public and Dave Wakeling's version of The Eng…
- Ska Boom-Episode 001: 1985: The Year American Ska Broke
Despite 2 Tone’s chart-topping success in the UK from 1979 through 1981, it was largely a commercial flop in the United States, as 2 Tone’s parent label Chrysalis had no idea how t…
- Ska Boom: Introduction
I'm Marc Wasserman! Welcome to the very first episode of the Ska Boom podcast, which is the audio companion to my forthcoming book Ska Boom: An American Ska & Reggae Oral History t…
