The Beatdown has posted on their MySpace this week, some live footage of their song Justice. Members of the Beatdown will be participating at the Stomp All Stars show during the Jazz Festival this year.
A few shows have been added to the calendar this week. Dates and bands have been revealed for the Montreal Ska Festival of this year. Big names such has The Slackers and Chris Murray will be participating. View our calendar or visit their website in our links section for more details about the first Montreal Ska Fest.
Nat went to see No Doubt on June 17, her review and pictures are now available on our MySpace profile, check it out!
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 We've got big news for you! Remember the Stomp All Stars? Well they will playing at the Jazz Festival this year. The best part is: their show is free! So there is no reason for you not to be there. Last time they played was in 2007 at Petit Campus and it was a blast! This is a show not to be miss, check out the details in our calendar.
New this week on the site: we have a new Twitter widget (see below). If you want to add us you can find us under the name SkaMontreal. Also, check out our reviews section for our critique of the new Subb album. Take note that we don't have Facebook just yet. We will let you know when we do so.
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As you can see, the new website is online and bigger than ever! All the main sections are completed except the store which will require a bit more time. Until then, you can look around to see what's new and don't hesitate to leave us your comments and feedback on our forum.
Stepper will be touring across Canada this summer for the Hotter Than Hot tour. We've been lucky to have them around now it's time for the rest of Canada to learn about this great local band. The band will also participate to the Ottawa Ska Fest from July 31rst to August 3rd.
Dan Potthast has started a new band called Dan P. and the Bricks. The band is composed of 10 members, including ex-member of Slow Gherkin, and will be an all ska band playing only locally for charity. Talking about Dan Potthast, a new album from his other band The Stich Up should come out this summer. The singer announced also the release of 2 solo albums by Fall.
Visit our media section for videos of Stepper and Rudeboy from their last show on June 5th. If you wanna learn a bit more about SkaMontréal, you should also visit our FAQ section.
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A lot of upcoming shows have been added to our calendar for the following bands: The Hangers, Take The Boys, Soulsense and RX Bandits. That's right, RX Bandits will be in Montreal in August at Foufounes Électriques. Also, The Beatdown will be participating to this year's Montreal Reggae Festival. For more details about the festival, visit our links for their website.
Check out our MySpace blog for a review and pictures from Nat of last Thursday's show with The Wax Buckets, The Buttmuffins, Brixton Robbers and Keepin' 6.
Due to time constraints, I can't upload the videos of Stepper and Rudeboy this weekend. Check back in a week, they will be added to our media section and we will also have something new for you guys!
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The Planet Smashers will be opening for Blink 182 at the Bell Center on August 7th. All the details have been added to our calendar.
Don't forget that the new Rancid's album, Let The Dominoes Fall, is coming out on Tuesday. Also releasing that day, Subb's new album: To This Beat. You might want to stop buy your nearest local store this week!
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Several new songs from their upcoming album Fluent In Stroll have been added this week to the MySpace profile of Big D and The Kids Table. The new album should be coming out on July 7th.
After The Sufferer, The Aggrolites have added a new song from their upcoming album: Tear That Falls. Check out their MySpace to hear it. And while we are at it, check out Rancid's MySpace to hear East Bay Night, a song from Let The Dominoes Fall.
Reel Big Fish will release a new DVD entitled Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert! this summer. They mentioned on their blog that they will be tourning the US this summer with no one else but the English Beat.
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We would like to congratulate Samantha Morris for winning at our Beatdown contest. You and your guest have been added to the guest list. Thanks to everyone who participated!
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 Rancid has released this week, their first videoclip from their new album. The song is called Last One To Die and can be seen on the homepage of their website. The new album Let The Dominoes Fall will come out on June 2nd.
RX Bandits is coming up with a new album this summer. Entitled Mandala, the album cover and tracklist can be found on their MySpace profile.
Madness' new album, The Liberty of Norton Folgate will be released next Monday in the UK. The special box set was available since last December but now fans will be able to get the CD at record stores.
They mentioned on their MySpace that new release dates for the rest of the world should be announced soon.
You have until Wednesday to sumbit your name for a chance to see The Beatdown first show in Montreal. Don't miss this chance and leave your name here.
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SkaMontréal is glad to promote the upcoming show of The Beatdown. The Beatdown is a new band formed by a few members of the One Night Band. For the occasion, we are giving away 2 tickets to go see them on May 22nd, thanks to Alex Giguère. So leave us your name at our usual contest address: contest@skamontreal.com and we will announce the winner on May 20th. For more details about the contest, click on the related image below. In the meantime, you can check out the band's MySpace here.
The new album from Subb is coming out June 2nd and will be entitled "To This Beat". The band also announced that they will be filming a video next week for the song "I Love Montreal".
Looks like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are not so much on hiatus anymore. The band has started working on their next album which they will start recording for in June. The Bosstones will be giving a few shows also next July. Nothing for Montreal but they will participate to the Victoria's 10th Anniversary Ska Fest in BC.
Keepin' 6 will be in Montreal on June 4th at the Bistro de Paris. Some local bands such as The Wax Buckets, Brixton Robbers and Reggae Dubline Corp. will be opening the show for them. Check out our calendar for more info.
I went to The Real Deal's show last night at Petit Campus and I must say, although I didn't know much of their songs, I had blast! I bought their new album "Fun" even though it is not sure I will review it here, from what I heard yesterday it sounds really good. You can hit our links section for their MySpace profile if you want to hear some of their new songs.
New stuff on the site this week include 2 new shows in our calendar: Massawippi Skank and Caillasse on April 9th and One Night Band on April 23rd. More details in the calendar.
Also I have reviewed Stepper's new album Way Out, and added the links for the following venues: Foufounes Électriques, Café Campus and Métropolis.
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 Here's what's new on the site this week: First of all I have added videos from the Afterbeat show last week. There are no videos from Stepper as I wanted some specific songs that they did not play that night but great show as always!
Subb will be playing at the Cabaret Juste Pour Rire with the Johnstones on June 5th. The details have been added to the calendar. We have two new venues to our links: L'Absynthe and Underworld also, I have added the link for Face Plant Records.
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I have added several shows for the Wax Buckets for May, June and July. Also, I went to One Night Band's show last Thursday and added the videos to our media section. The opening band was Kman and the 45's and they were great! Their MySpace profile is now in our links section. They don't have songs uploaded yet but you shold definately keep an eye on them.
Finally, The Afterbeat are playing tonight at l'Absynthe and Stepper is opening. This should be a great show, don't miss out!
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We would like to congratulate Sasha Wiggs for winning our One Night Band contest. You and your guest have been added to the guest list. Thanks to everyone who participated!
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Don't forget you have until Tuesday to participate to our One Night Band contest. Don't miss out on their last show of 2009 and leave us your name today at our contest address: contest@skamontreal.com.
The Johnstones have realeased a 2 songs single through iTunes. You can visit their Myspace blog, to learn where you can download it.
For all those vinyl collectors out there, Reel Big Fish's newest album Fame, Fortune and Fornication is now available as a vinyl. You can buy it on the Amazon website.
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are presently recording their next album entitled The Skankin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. The album will be a collection of new and previously released material. There are no released date yet but the band said the record should come out at the end of summer or September.
New shows have been added to our calendar for the bands Take the Boys, Stepper and RDC. I have also added details about the Van's Warped Tour coming in July. In our links section, website for the following venues have been added: Café Chaos, Club Soda, L'Hémisphère Gauche and Le Medley.
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We would like to congratulate Jonathan Nadeau for winning our SkaMontréal T-Shirt. We would also like to thank everybody who participated, this contest was particularly successful and we will definately do it again.
Thanks to our friend Alex Giguère, we have another contest this week! If you would like to see The One Night Band for free on April 23th leave us your name at our usual address: contest@skamontreal.com. Take note that it will be the last show of 2009 for The One Night Band so don't miss out! For all the details about the contest, click on the image on the right.
I have added a show to our calendar: The Real Deal is releasing a new album next month and will be in Montreal at the Petit Campus. For more info check out our calendar section.
The Aggrolites will release their fourth album entitled IV on June 9th. They have uploaded a song from this upcoming album on their MySpace profile.
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Please take note that since you guys have responded so well to our T-Shirt Contest, we are changing the end date for Friday April 10th, 2009. You have basically until next Friday to submit your name. Good luck!
 Nat and I went to the 1-2-3 Punk 10 years anniversary last Thursday and brought back videos and pictures of the show. For more details about how it went check out Nat's blog on our MySpace profile and our media section for the videos. Also added to the site this week: Crookedhook's show on May 9th to our calendar, and Syracuse Ska website to our links section.
Rancid will release their newest album on June 2nd 2009 entitled Let The Dominoes Fall. You can view the tracklist on the Punknews website. Rancid will be in Montréal next June at the Parc Jean-Drapeau with Rise Against.
The Aquabats have been officiallly released by their record label Nitro. The band mentionned on their MySpace blog that it was actually a mutual aggreement from both parties. We sure hope they will persevere in finding a new label soon.
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That's right! Next Thursday, SkaMontréal will be celebrating its first year! For the occasion we have decided to give away a brand new SkaMontréal t-shirt. If you would like to participate to our draw, leave us your name and address at the following address: contest@skamontreal.com. It is important that you include T-Shirt Contest in the subject line. You have until Friday, April 24th to leave your name. The winner will be announced on our website and MySpace the following weekend. For more information, you can click on the contest image on the right. Good luck to everyone!
Big D and The Kids Table now have Twitter. You can find them under the name BigDStroll. The band is currently in studio and they will be posting updates on Twitter.
Another band that is currently recording songs is Voodoo Glow Skulls. They announced this week that the new album should be completed by the end of the summer. The band will be participating to the Ska Is Dead Tour this Fall but no dates have been given yet.
A very interesting show have been added to our calendar. Don't miss The Afterbeat and Stepper at l'Absynthe on April 25th. All the details in our calendar.
Also, MySpace profile for the bands The Wax Buckets and Hi Jack! have been added to our links.
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New stuff on the site this week include 2 new shows in our calendar: Massawippi Skank and Caillasse on April 9th and One Night Band on April 23rd. More details in the calendar.
Also I have reviewed Stepper's new album Way Out, and added the links for the following venues: Foufounes Électriques, Café Campus and Métropolis.
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Check out Alex Giguère new band, The Beatdown. The band is completely new and contains members of the One Night Band. The Beatdown will have a show in Montreal on May 22nd. You can visit our calendar for more details about this show.
The U.K. band Madness, has a completely redesigned their website. The band released the The Liberty Of Norton Folgate as a special box set that can be ordered at their store. Songs from this album feature on their MySpace profile.
 The House of Reggae is looking for reggae and ska bands to book for shows. You can send your information using the following address: info@houseofreggae.com. Talking about the House of Reggae, we have decided to add venues to our links page. Expect more to be added in the upcoming weeks.
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 If you missed the Planet Smashers show a few weeks ago, here's your chance to make up for it and see Subb at the same time. Both bands, and many more, will playing at the Métropolis on April 2nd to celebrate the 10 years of the show 1-2-3 Punk that plays on Musique Plus. Visit our calendar for more details about this show.
I have also added shows for Take The Boys to our calendar and Westbound Train that will be in Montreal on April 16th.
It is now official the the Ska Is Dead Tour will be visiting the East Coast of Canada this Fall. No dates have been displayed on their website yet.
Finally, I have added a link for the South California band Strike-O-Matics. You can visit their MySpace here.
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It is rather a quiet time right now for the ska scene but I was able to add quite a few shows to our calendar. A lot of local bands are having shows this spring and I encourage you all to come and hear a new band.
Also, I did the review for the Self-Titled EP of Rude City Riot. Check out our links for more information on this great band.
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We have new videos from two great local bands: Take the Boys and Stepper, from the show last Thursday. I'm espacially happy to have new videos of Stepper as the last ones I recorded did not do them justice at all.
Check out the Johnstones MySpace profile for a sample of songs from their upcoming album. The band said the full lenght album would be coming out in June but they will release 3 new songs on iTunes and a new videoclip in March.
I'm always looking for online skazines from around the world. Although skazines are rather rare, a lot of punkzines include ska on their websites. This is the case for Punk Fiction, a punkzine from France. They have interviews with Streetlight and Mad Caddies and they recently reviewed the newest Reel Big Fish album. The website is now added to our links. Also added, is the website for Pimpbot, a ska/punk band from Hawaï.
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The One Night Band released a videoclip this week for the song Trigger on Hit & Run. You can view the clip here.
Check out the MySpace profile of Westbound Train for a new song from their upcoming album Come And Get it. You can also visit their blog for the complete tracklisting of the album.
Streetlight Manifesto has reveal a few details about the 99 Songs of Revolution Project on their website. No release date yet but they mentioned that the album should be available as they start touring for the Warped Tour. A tracklist of the album should be posted on their website soon enough.
The countdown is now at 0 for 4th Wave Toronto Skazine! People from Toronto can expect a new website (as I assumed) in a very near future.
Finally, I have added a new wallpaper to our media section. Dan Potthast fans will be please as it is an animé version of the cover Sweets and Meats. There are no Mac version for this one but to compensate, I have create a widescreen version. Also, don't expect any videos from the Planet Smashers show, me and Nat unfortunately couldn't make it at the last minute.
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Quick update to let you know that the interview with Matt Collyer is now online. You can view it here.
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A lot of content has been added this week. First of all, the videos for the Rudeboy show are now online and I have reviewed Ska-P's new album Lagrimas y Gozos. Massawippi Skank and Caillasse will have a show together on February 28th, all the details are in the calendar section. If you are not familiar with the bands, check out our links for their myspace profiles. And finally, the website for the band The Stitch Up has also been added to the links section.
Check back the site during the week as we should have an interview with Matt Collyer of the Planet Smasher ready just before their upcoming show.
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 I have added some new videos from The Streetlight Manifesto show last Tuesday. As expected, they are a bit shaky. I also have a few videos from the Rudeboy show however, I will only add them next weekend or sometime during the week if I have the time. Check out our MySpace profile for some images and review of both shows.
The Slackers have now released their live DVD! Filmed in one of their favorite place, the Flamingo Cantina in Texas, the DVD is available for 20$ US on the Interpunk website.
The English Beat are celebrating their 30th aniversary and for the occasion, they are touring in the U.S. and Canada. There are unfortunately, no dates for Montreal but they will be playing 3 nights in Ontario's cities of Waterloo, Toronto and London. For those that can make the trip. More details about the tour on their MySpace.
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Pretty busy week this week since we have 2 great shows: Streetlight Manifesto and Rudeboy. SkaMontréal will be covering both shows and as usual, if you find us in the crowd, say hello and we'll give you free stickers.
Talking about shows, Take The Boys have a few dates coming up. Actually they will be playing on Tuesday at the Social at 10pm. Also on January 30th and February 6th, 19th and 26th. Time, venues and more details about their shows have been added to our calendar.
 In one of their blog this week, the Mad Caddies have revealed that they are currently working on new music and they are planning to tour this summer. No more information has been given yet but you can check out the actual blog here.
The Ska Is Dead tour has revamped their website for the new tour. If you check out their ska news, you will learn that Neville Staple has now a new biography entitled: Neville Staple: The Original Rudeboy. The biography is 30,29$ (canadian dollars) on the Amazon website.
Also mentionned was the upcoming Madness album, The Liberty of Norton Folgate, on March 2nd. For a taste of their new music, you can visit Madness' MadSpace profile.
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I have reviewed the newest album of Rudeboy this week. The band will be in Montréal on January 29th at La Sala Rossa.
And for those interested, Reel Big Fish's new album, Fame, Forture and Fornication, will be coming out this Tuesday. We are not planning on reviewing this one since it is only covers, but you are welcome to share your impressions on our forum.
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I just learned this week that the Aggrolites will be opening for Flogging Molly on February 16th. Talking about the Aggrolites, they are presently in studio working on their fourth album. The title has not been announced yet but the album itself should be ready for May 2009.
To all the bands in Québec, Kevin Roy from Rouyn-Noranda is trying to gather some Ska and Punk bands for a show in this area. Those who are willing to travel there can contact him at the following address: werty098@hotmail.com.
For the new year we have revamped our MySpace profile with a new background. Also, we will be promoting Ottawa's band Rudeboy all January until their show on the 29th. I have also made some modifications to the reviews section and created an archive.
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