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Less Than Jake Begin Recording New Music

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Less Than Jake have started to record their new album at The Moathouse, the recording studio of vocalist / bassist Roger Lima. Their 10th full-length release will be out this fall via Fat Wreck Chords. LTJ released a studio video last week, which you can watch below as well.
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Music Video: Reel Big Fish – “Your Girlfriend Sucks”

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Don’t worry kids, Reel Big Fish hasn’t broken up. The band recently played in Europe and now they have released a music video of concert footage for their song “Your Girlfriend Sucks.” RBF will be playing the Viva Ska Vegas festival on May 4th and then will be playing the Warped Tour with bunch of bands I don’t know.
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Streetlight Manifesto – “The Hands That Thieve”

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Record Label: Victory Records
Genre: Ska Punk
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After many a hiatus due to everything from label issues to time miscalculations, the long-awaited follow up to “Somewhere in the Between” (cover albums don’t count!) finally sees the light of day. It’s not like Streetlight does this to fans with every album or something.
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Less Than Jake announce 2013 tour dates

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We announced last week that Less Than Jake signed with Fat Wreck Chords, and now they have announced a buttload of tour dates. The band will play in New York on Rocks Off! Boat Cruise on June 12th. They are playing the Rocks ON Boat Cruise in Boston on June 16th. The June dates will be supported by Hostage Calm and Pentimento.
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Less Than Jake releasing new album on Fat Wreck Chords

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Less Than Jake were on Fat Wreck Chords’ roster back in 2000 but they left for a major label soon after. Then in 201,2 the band re-released Borders & Boundaries and the subsequent EP collection Greetings & Salutations on Fat Wreck Chords so it makes sense that the band will be releasing their next album on Fat Wreck. The band plays to record the new album in May!
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Pleased To Hear You – New Music for 3/15/2013

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It is Ska Week here at Pleased To Hear You. Celebrating the genre we all love, this week features 3 up and coming ska bands from the US. Enjoy my friends!
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Streetlight Manifesto finally releasing their new album and announce “The End of the Beginning Tour”

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Streetlight Manifesto will be releasing their long awaited new album The Hands That Thieve on April 30, 2013. The record can be pre-ordered directly from the band via the RISC Store where they are offering a pre-order package with Toh Kay’s (Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto) The Hand That Thieve which features acoustic versions of all the songs on The Hands That Thieve. The band also announced “The End of the Beginning Tour,” which is self explanatory but you can read their comments below.
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2-Day Ska Fest, Apple Stomp, coming to New York City May 31st – June 1st

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My request has been answered! I was bitching about not having a big ska or punk festivals in NYC like Vegas has (Punk Rock Bowling, Viva Ska Vegas) but looks like things are about to change! Asbestos Records, Christian McKnight, Adam Fachler are organizing a big two-day ska festival in New York City on Friday May 31st and Saturday June 1st at Irving Plaza. Sweet!
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Big D and the Kids Table launch Kickstarter campaign to fund albums

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Long running Boston ska band Big D and the Kids Table have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their next 2 records. The band is seeking to raise an end goal of $20,000 by March 8th with a projected release for the records coming in Summer 2013.
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Less Than Jake playing in the South and in Europe

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Less Than Jake will be kicking off their 21st year as an active band with some dates down in the South before heading overseas for a 10-day European tour centered around festivals. The band will also stop by at SXSW in March, plus playing on a spliff cruise run by 311. Lots of Pez will be consumed.
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Victims of Cirumstance – “Decades”

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Record Label: Financial Records
Genre: Ska Punk
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The idea behind “Decades” was to take a chart-topping hit song from every decade since the inception of rock and roll in the 50’s on to the 2000’s and cover it in the VOC style…which is full on ska punk my friends.
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The Offenders – “Lucky Enough To Live”

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Record Label: Destiny Records
Genre: Ska Punk
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Why does it seem that there are so many greater ska punk/two tone influenced bands in Europe than there are in the States nowadays? The Offenders hail from Italy and are based in Berlin. Their sound is a mix of classic two tone ska, ska punk and rocksteady. I had to do some research because they sounded very much like the early Millencolin ska punk stuff and I needed to make sure that Millencolin didn’t finally change their minds and go back to their roots.
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