Toasters Skaboom
Croc Rock says it's looking to reschedule the show for June.
The group played Monday night in Vienna, Va., in the northern part of the state.
The Toasters, from New York City, is arguably the longest-running ska band in the United States, having started in 1981, and its 1987 album âSkaboom!â often is credited as the origin of âthird-waveâ ska in the U.S. Some 5,000 gigs later, the band is on the road with a 30th anniversary tour.
The show was the second for tonight that the snow interrupted. Comedian Doogie Horner, a Bethlehem native who appeared on "America's Got Talent" last summer, was to headline the third anniversary show of Allentown Brew Works' Tickle Me Tuesdays, but was postponed because of the wintry mix.
That show now will be held Friday.
As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell....Do you have, somewhere amongst the forgotten flotsam of your youth, a dusty old shoebox from Nineteen-ninety-something that you painted a black and white checkered pattern on? Is it full of worn-out Specials or Mighty Mighty Bosstones cassettes, a Ben Sherman button-up shirt, skinny tie, porkpie hat and maybe a pair of suspenders? Did your friend you haven’t seen in 12 years recently upload some scanned photos to Facebook of you skanking it up to Reel Big Fish at the 1996 Warped Tour in Kansas City? In other words, do you have any ska-letons in your closet?
Ouch. Sorry. I tried, but I just couldn’t finish writing this without including at least one terrible ska pun. I guess they’re not really even puns, more just the replacement of some syllable in a word with “ska,” no matter how much of a stretch. Why do ska bands do that? I can’t figure it out. The practice seems to date back to the
I would do The Toasters' Skaboom. I would recommend Derrick Morgan Sings Ska Rocksteady. I'm kind of biased, but my next book I'm working on right now is a biography of Don Drummond, so I would get Don Drummond Memorial Album. Those would be the five,
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