Music - Feb. 18, 2008
You just can't stop The English Beat
Second wave ska legends The English Beat seem to make it back to Milwaukee with surprising regularity, but it's easy to see why when the dance-floor remains packed and just as bouncy as ever.
Tags: the english beat, rx bandits, ska, turner hall, dave wakeling, the smile train, steven choi, punk, the invaders, the toasters, matt embree

Music - Jan. 21, 2008
Mix tape: January 2008
Here are some of the CDs spinning ‘round my ears these days...
Tags: Subsonica, L'eclisse, Temposhark, Asthmatic Kitty, Rafter, Downtown 81, Basquiat, No Wave, Rephlektor, Cryptacize, Lee Scratch Perry, Ska, Studio One, Coxsone Dodd, Temposhark

Music - Jan. 10, 2008
Streetlight Manifesto: Short but very, very sweet
Streetlight Manifesto brought its horn-laden ska-punk to the Turner Ballroom last night in order to promote its new album "Somewhere in the Between."
Tags: Streetlight Manifesto, ska, Potthast, MU330, Grand Buffet, Stitch Up, Kalnoky

Music - Nov. 27, 2007
Big D is a Big Deal at Turner Hall
One of their tee shirts proclaims "No trends, no fads, no gimmicks. We play ska."
Tags: big d and the kids table, big d, turner hall, music, punk, ska, interview

Music - June 27, 2007
Swinging easy with the Alpha boys
As Jamaica prepares for an uneasy election summer, Milwaukee's Eric Blowtorch becomes Mr. Bassie with the band at Kingston's legendary Alpha Boys School.
Tags: Alpha, Jamaica, Blowtorch, Kingston, ska, reggae