Get that Ragga sound into your head. That is what these guys have accomplished.
Directly from London and under the label of Rebel Alliance comes to knowledge of all of you the Mouthwash. An English Ska/Ragga/Roots band on the road to present their first album, True Stories.
Emphasizing the primitive evolution of Ska, Mouthwash developed a sound that greatly mixtures a catchy rhythm with a blast of street music. Surely under the influence of the punk subculture which is well recognized in their tunes lyrics and following the magnetism of band they have supported (such as Agnostic Front, Less than Jake or even Rancid) Mouthwash have appeared with an album that empowers their sonority into upper levels of enjoyment.
Including songs like “The Sound” and “That Girl”, True Stories reveals the bands direction and future objectives which can only take them up high towards the Ska-Sky.
Pay attention to these new kids in town as their name is on the rise.
Behold my Ska People for this Delicatessen I am about to present to you all. Lads and Lasses I give you Random Hand.
A Scottish Ska hardcore band that has been presenting their name in the Ska industry for some time now, with excellent results so far. First Record named "Change of Plan" produced by Riot Music was very gross and brute with a more tough sound. Featuring songs like "Play some Ska" or "Scum Triumphant", this first record presentation took their name up within the Ska Hardcore genre.
Later came what can be considered as the band's primer effort: "Inhale/Exhale". Produced by Rebel Alliance this second album literally took the band into a widely recognition position. Including tunes like “Anger Management” and “I, Human” this album is surely a great chunk of entertainment.
Better mastered and produced, enhancing the band's musicality, developing the social lyrical content that show cultural and political demonstrations, this late album is a piece of mastery in terms of this musical genre.
However great they sound like, they are even better performing live. Their members carry an energy on stage that is rarely found. Bringing all their spontaneity together and mixing Heavy metal guitar solos with Ska trombone riff and fast tempo drumming, the generated result is a sonority that brings the crowd into utmost delight. What a performance this guys show on stage, I shall say to you.
Please listen to the Musical Video below and Enjoy the show.
This Magazine came to life by an idea of developing and showing a culture that was not thoroughly written about. In a scene somewhat branch of the ever fostering Punk culture, Ska surged not as a sub-culture but only as a musical sub-genre. But, just like any other musical genre, it has grown to create a musical movement that established to itself its own thoughts, ideas, behaviors and even principles. Coexisting tightly with the Punk culture, the Ska movement began to gain shape and form in a manner probably no one had ever predicted.
In the early years of the 80’s an original idea merged the punk music style with another totally different style, the joyful Jamaican roots/reggae mixed with a fast tempo: Ska. At the same time the punk scene was growing to a degree that was brought to light all around the world through its own cultural publications: the so-called Punkzine. They were nothing more but Cultural Magazines that disclosed the Punk events taking place, cultural principles developments and even interviews with special musician or artists.
30 years after this fluorescing movement came to public knowledge and existence, the sub-culture has grown into a status of sublimation, where its own essence is recognized but not followed, though great and good novelties are occurring within the Ska nuclei. This is why this magazine came to take presence at the online web scene. To take another step towards the disclosure of the Ska movement/genre/culture or whatever one feels should call it. It was launched with the ambition of gathering the Rude Boy community, share ideas, demonstrate the actual state of the culture worldwide, and participate in the present development of the culture itself. It shall embrace publications and articles that vary in its content: musical fresh look-ups, literature reviews, cultural reveries, and reflections upon philosophical further progressions.
In its sense of continuity, evolving and moving Magazine came the name Skavenue, a Ska Avenue: A promenade that everybody is invited to take, and I shall see you across it at some point. Have a nice walk.
