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19 hrs ago | Houston Press

Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 4: Reel Big Fish, Chris Isaak, Trail of Dead and More

Ooo, ooo, our turn! There are some great potential one-album shows coming up that even the rest of the Rocks Off staff managed to miss.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Chris Isaak, Reel Big Fish, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The English Beat, The Dandy Warhols, Theater, Arts

Yesterday | Queensferry Today

Bo'ness boy on the Madness website

FOR the Murray family in Bo'ness, 'Our house, in the middle of our street', is now on the website of pop/ska icons Madness! Son Lewis was a Public School presentee on Fair Day, all kitted out with classmates in Madness-style black fedoras, braces and shades, tying in with the primary's theme.

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Related Topix: Madness

Thu Jul 09, 2009

New Statesman

How I killed 2 Tone

Three or four times a year, when the spirit - or more likely the spirits move me, I dig out an old 45rpm single from the back of the cupboard, take the record out of the sleeve and hold it up to the light.

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Related Topix: The Specials

Wed Jul 08, 2009

JamBase

Madness: New Album

Recently called "great giants of British music" by BBC late night host Jools Holland, 2 Tone/Second Wave ska invasionists Madness have waited nearly a decade to offer the world new songs.

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Related Topix: Madness, The Wave, Jazz, The Specials

Mon Jul 06, 2009

News-Messenger

So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star

Sandusky City Schools and Terra Community College, in collaboration with MoronBros Concerts, are having a once in a lifetime experience for area music/band students.

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Related Topix: Sandusky, OH, Reel Big Fish, Cleveland, OH

Sun Jul 05, 2009

92.5 KISS FM

Rich Girl - Gwen Stefani / Eve

Before she discovered she could write songs, Gwen Stefani was looking forward to a life of marriage, children, and white picket fences.

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Related Topix: Fullerton, CA, The Selecter, Madness

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Roanoke Times

July music at Martin's Downtown Bar & Grill

Music reporter Tad Dickens enjoys pickin' and grinnin' and drummin', and he likes to write about music, too.

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Related Topix: The Pietasters, Roanoke, VA, Roanoke Metro

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Ink 19

The Beat goes on for ska icon Dave Wakeling

He is frozen in time, locked in an endless loop wherein the same images are on memory replay.

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Related Topix: The Beat, The English Beat, Pop/Rock, General Public, Explosion

Wheeling News

Beast of the East Brings Big Bucks .....

While high school baseball players from 14 states and Canada are in Wheeling looking for a big break, local business owners are getting big bucks in their cash registers.

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Related Topix: Wheeling, WV, The Players, Triadelphia, WV

Wed Jul 01, 2009

WTTV Indianapolis

Real gangsters, reel movies

Robert DeNiro as Al Capone in "The Untouchables" The Chicago-based gangster was indeed brought down by U.S. Treasury Agent Eliot Ness, who successfully brought in the notorious bootlegger on charges of income tax evasion.

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Related Topix: The Untouchables, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Jun 29, 2009

KEX-AM Portland

Madness, Blur wow Glastonbury crowd

Fans acclaimed British bands Madness and Blur the stars of this year's Glastonbury music festival, observers say.

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Related Topix: Madness, Pop/Rock, Blur

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Chardandilminsternews.co.uk

Glastonbury Festival: Big names rock fans

A HOST of legendary acts revved up a lively Glastonbury crowd on the final afternoon of the festival.

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Related Topix: Tom Jones, Pop/Rock, Madness

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Jamaica Observer

Ska/Reggae Revival closes jazz fest on a swinging note

Despite a somewhat low turnout, what matters most in jazz is still the music. From this standpoint, it was the music of the Fabulous Five's Ska/Reggae Revival that brought a swinging climax to the week-long Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Travel, Jamaica Travel, The Skatalites, San Francisco Metro

Croydon Guardian

King of Pop dies but gig goes on

One half of former busking duo, the Dualers, has said he would cancel his upcoming gig at the IndigO2 Arena if it would bring back the king of pop.

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Related Topix: The Dualers

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Larne Today

Clear skies ahead for Glastonbury

The skies should be clear by the time headliners Lily Allen and Neil Young take to the Glastonbury stage on Friday - and festival crime is down too, it was revealed.

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Related Topix: Devon County, England, United Kingdom, The Specials

Inland Empire Weekly

Skanks For the Memories

Ahh, ska : that offbeat-obsessed, R'n'B/calypso collision from 1950s Jamaica that became a soundtrack for Britain's mods in the '60s; enjoyed a revival in that country in the late '70s ; and then reappeared in a lo-cal SoCal incarnation in the 1990s .

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Related Topix: The Specials, The Aquabats, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Riverside, CA, Los Angeles Metro, San Diego, CA

Telegraph.co.uk

Glastonbury 2009: Suggs interview

Their music is about the community experience of living in North London but Madness are the perfect band for this year's Glastonbury.

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Related Topix: Suggs, Madness, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, The Specials

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Plymouth Evening Herald

Forget The Specials here's The Beat

THEIR mates The Specials may have reunited among a blaze of hype, but The Beat are just as good a live proposition when it comes to reliving the Two Tone years.

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Related Topix: The Beat

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Battle Creek Enquirer

Your Opinions: Bible about faith, hope, charity

Carol Grimley opened my eyes to support a belief that just because it's in the Bible I can't say it's wrong,. The same book that condemns same-sex relationships also says a man is unclean if he has a flat nose .

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Related Topix: Wedding, The Israelites, Opinion

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Hastings Today

Airport checks force Specials singer to axe gigs

A gig in Margate featuring The Specials singer Neville Staple has been cancelled amid reports customs checks in Jamaica forced him to miss a flight to the UK.

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Related Topix: The Specials, World News, Jamaica,

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