The Slackers seem to have taken a more serious tone on their fifth album, Close My Eyes. With a cover that features a crying woman facing aw...
Articles By Dan Cohen
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ReviewsThe Slackers Close My Eyes Published Jan 01, 2006
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ReviewsKing Django King Django Meets the Scrucialists Published Jan 01, 2006
Now this is what I had in mind when King Django put out his highly anticipated solo album, Reason, on Hellcat. Reason was a disappointment f...
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ReviewsSkatalites From Paris With Love Published Jan 01, 2006
Ever wonder what would happen if you took an influential band that played 30 years ago, let them listen to all the music that was born from...
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ReviewsBedouin Soundclash Root Fire Published Jan 01, 2006
If I were writing this review based on the first two songs, I would be telling everyone that Root Fire by these Kingston (Ontario, not Jamai...
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ReviewsAdjusters Otis Redding Will Save America Published Jan 01, 2006
The Adjusters are one of many bands that I figured disappeared when the ska bubble burst, so I was genuinely surprised at the arrival of Oti...
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ReviewsDr. Ring Ding & the Senior All-Stars Golden Gate: The Best of... Published Jan 01, 2006
Germany's Senior All-Stars have called it quits, ending what has been a long and fruitful career. Dr. Ring Ding, aka Richie Jung, should con...
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ReviewsLaurel Aitken Rudi Got Married Published Jan 01, 2006
Volume five in a collection chronicling the career of the "Godfather of ska" Laurel Aitken, Rudi Got Married is made up of songs recorded in...
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ReviewsStingers ATX This Good Thing Published Jan 01, 2006
It's a sad reflection on the state of the North American ska scene when a solid group like the Stingers ATX has to go all the way to Germany...
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ReviewsStuck On You Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly Published Dec 01, 2003
The Farrelly brothers are the kings of dumb comedy, creating two of the stupidest movies of the '90s in Dumb and Dumber and There's Somethin...
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ReviewsVarious Pressure Sounds Presents Red Bumb Ball: Rare and Unreleased Rocksteady 1966-8 Published Dec 01, 2003
After there was ska and before there was reggae, there was rocksteady and Red Bumb Ball puts together a collection of 22 top-notch selection...
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ReviewsCatch 22 Dinosaur Sounds Published Dec 01, 2003
I dont know if its fair to judge a band on past success, but every Catch 22 album since Keasby Nights has left me vaguely disappointed. It...
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ReviewsFishbone The Essential Collection Published Dec 01, 2003
Fishbones career, which began in the early 80s and continues to this day, has taken them from a ska band, to a funk band, to a metal band...
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ReviewsUndergrads: The Complete Freshman Season Published Oct 01, 2003
Undergrads was the victim of its target audience: the show was wildly successful amongst (you guessed it) college undergrads, a group that w...
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ReviewsDuplex Danny DeVito Published Oct 01, 2003
Danny DeVito loves black comedies, and Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, follows in the footsteps of his previous works, Thro...
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ReviewsCradle 2 the Grave Andrzej Bartkowiak Published Sep 01, 2003
As DMX has stated before, he's "not a nice person," he's also "not a good actor," but Cradle 2 the Grave, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Ex...
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ReviewsFreddy vs. Jason Ronny Yu Published Aug 01, 2003
Every geek has different scenarios they play out in their mind and with their friends. The comic geek wonders who would win if the X-Men and...
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ReviewsAlpha Boy School Big Fight Published Aug 01, 2003
The 80s are back! A Sprite commercial, Vice City, synth-pop (okay, that was a year ago), and now in ska? It would seem that way if the Al...
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ReviewsDave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7 United Front Published Jul 01, 2003
Laid back thats the way to describe the new DHR7 album, and its the perfect medicine for a hot day when your clothes stick to your body...
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ReviewsThe Skatalites The 360 Club, Toronto ON - May 24, 2003 Published Jul 01, 2003
By far the most prolific band of ska's earliest days, the Skatalites (featuring surviving members Lloyd Brevett, Lloyd Knibb and Lester Ster...
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ReviewsPlanet Smashers Mighty Published Jul 01, 2003
The Planet Smashers havent put out a weak album yet, and Mighty, their fifth, is a continuation of the bands consistently solid library. F...