Big D & the Kids Table reveal limited edition shirts and a special guest for their upcoming “Good Luck” anniversary shows
Big D will celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Good Luck” by performing it start to finish at Paradise Rock Club on May 31st
TT The Bear’s in Cambridge hosts a Benefit for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) with Boston Ska/punk bands The Pomps, Stray Bullets, and OC45
For one reason or another, there just hasn’t been so much live video of Boston ska band The Pomps on YouTube. Now there is!
Cold got you down? Feeling overall frozen? Come by Midway Cafe in JP for a hot toddy (note: I have no idea if they make hot toddies).
Stray Bullets will be headlining a Moonstomping Snowstomping Matinee Saturday, January 18 starting at 4pm. The show is all ages and $10 also gets you well-rounded punk and ska bill with Jason Bennett and the Resistance, The Pomps, and The Warning Shots.
This compilation of New England punk bands contains some great Boston ska tracks; Proceeds goto benefit One Fund and the American Brain Tumor Association
And like that, January is halfway over and I’ve been slacking! I’ve got a stack of stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about. Here’s the lite version:
Brunt of It plays at the Middle East Upstairs on February 22 with The Blue Bloods, Dead Friends, A Common Goal, and Penalty Kill. Tickets are 18 and the show is 18+. Brunt of It most recently released All Aboard the Cannabus this past December, available on Bandcamp. See more shows at the calendar.
Brunt of It was also recently added as support to the upcoming Fishbone show at the Sinclair on March 3.
Big D and the Kids Table will be joining Warped Tour 2013. They’ve also been dropping some not-so-subtle hints that they’re ready to record a new record and might have a Kickstarter for you to fund.
Boston punk act Stray Bullets have re-released their 2004 album, “The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune” on their own bandcamp. Originally released on Fork in Hand records, it’s hard to come by online (Interpunk is sold out and Amazon has a few copies for $80). I’d only heard of the band having read the bio of the Have Nots, but I finally got to see them when they opened up Skalapalooza this past October. They sounded just about like a proto-have-nots act (so, for fans of Rancid and Suicide Machines) and that was just fine with me.
Originally posted at jacobwakeup.com
So I sort of blinked and noticed there’s a handful of great ska shows in Boston this month. And then I noticed they weren’t all listed anywhere. In the event that Bostonska.com doesn’t get around to posting them, I wanted to pull them all together. So, risking being the new guy who rolls into town and pretends he knows what’s up, I’ve got a very incomplete arbitrarily compiled list! Feel free to add more in the comments that I might have missed.