Articles by Sam Thompson

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  Hot Stove Jimmy

  Theme For A Major Hit

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  This album starts off with a lot of promise. "Ten Win," the opening track, has a gangster ska sound with great horns and keys, but eventual...

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  Naked N' Happy

  We Strongly Failed

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  Strange as it may seem, Stomp Records - Canada's premiere ska label - has "strongly failed" in producing a decent ska CD. Instead of the us...

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  Goldfinger

  Darrin’s Coconut Ass: Live From Omaha

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Since the long-awaited third album by California ska-punk gods Goldfinger has been delayed until early spring, the band has released this l...

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  Long Beach Dub Allstars

  Right Back

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  When Sublime front man Brad Nowell died of a drug overdose in 1996 it seemed like the end for a band whose career had just begun to take of...

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  Various

  Give ‘Em the Boot II

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong’s Hellcat Records label has released its second compilation of old-style ska and punk. The first Give &...

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  Whole Lotta Milka

  Al’s Diner

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Al’s Diner is the sophomore release by Whole Lotta Milka on Montreal’s Stomp Records, three long years since the Winnipeg band&...

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  Dr. Israel

  Inna City Pressure

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  I first discovered Dr. Israel on punk group Rancid’s latest album Life Won’t Wait. “Coppers,” the album’s bri...

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  Desmond Dekker

  The Original Rude Boy

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Jamaican ska legend Desmond Dekker has been introduced to a younger generation of ska fans on a number of recent first-wave compilations an...