100% Ska Podcast

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week we’re bringing you a brand new single from the NYC Ska Orchestra with their massive 12″ single-worthy rendition of the original Star Trek theme with an interstellar upbeat sound, and of cours...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week’s episode is the Requiem for a Supernova, as we fully accept the postponement of the Supernova International Ska Fest to 2021, and play music from the bands that were scheduled for 2020 and now app...

Well, quarantine madness along with a few Blue Hawaiian cocktails have set in, and its time for the very first all-CD episode of 100% Ska. You’re hearing nothing but sweet sweet ska compact discs here from the 1990s, and if I’ve done my research and homework correctly, none of this music has ever been released on vinyl! Sit back, and enjoy a very special episode of 100% Ska! I think we...

This week’s episode features an interview with Austen Gray, mastermind behind New Jersey’s ska-punk outfit, Joker’s Republic. We talk about the new album, Left Behind, their recent tour on the west coast, and of course the current Coronavirus outbreak. Check out the Joker’s Republic website , to keep up with the band! As always, we’ve got plenty of music for you, this...

This week’s episode is the first recorded since the Coronavirus pandemic has really been hitting the United States. Plenty of shoutouts, new music to support, pleas to support your local scene, and even your favorite bars and bartenders. We will persevere, and I will see you on the dance floor before you know it! This week’s playlist: Alberto Tarin & Orchestra – Walking Aroun...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week’s episode features an new interview with Bowcat, from Phoenix, discussing their current Kickstarter campaign and Supernova 2020, and brand new tunes from The Prizefighters being released as part of...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! Getting back to an attempted regularly scheduled recording session, and giving you a bunch of new releases and new-to-me tunes! Playlist: Isaac Green and the Skalars – Spoiled Brat Skatala – El Pistola...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! Tonight is another episode dedicated to the 7″ record! I’m lazy and didn’t check what I played on previous 7″ dedicated episodes, so maybe there’s repeats here but every cut is a kill...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! Tonight is the first episode of season three to feature ska music, and we settle back into our old ways of sipping rum and getting that upbeat cranking! Tonight’s Playlist: The Busters – Mickey Mouse i...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! However! Tonight’s season three premiere of 100% Ska has been hijacked! Instead of the usual 100% ska you’ve come to know and love, tonight’s episode will feature all non-ska music, as DJ Ryan Mi...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week focuses on highlighting the best of 2019! However, this isn’t the best releases of 2019, but the best of the music I’ve bought of the year to showcase the “new to the library”. Ex...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week’s episode attempted to do a simulcast on Zuckerberg’s book-of-faces emporium, but sadly didn’t get very far! However, we do have brand spankin’ new music from Stop the Presses, Th...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week’s episode is the return of 100% Ska after another unintended hiatus, with music from recent releases that try to capture that authentic, old school ska and rocksteady sound! Highlighted is brand ne...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week’s episode features music from several bands already committed to the Supernova 2020 International Ska Festival, and few “fantasy festival” picks of bands that I’d love to see perf...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week episode includes an interview with Catbite, Philly’s new ska sensation, recorded at Braustomp 3! And of course we have a song from them, off of their new LP from Bad Time Records. We discuss the or...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week episode features an interview with new NYC-based band Barbicide, featuring Brendog and Mikal (founders and formerly of Mephiskapheles) recorded outside Characters! And of course we have a song from them,...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week episode welcomes back Chris Malone of The Pandemics on the eve of their Midwest tour (dates below) talking all things tour, new upcoming music, and Lonely Atom Records. The show also features music from...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week features new music from The Operators, review of the new compilation The Shape of Ska-Punk to Come and a rare track from The Skunks! This week’s playlist The Skunks – It’s Goin’ D...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always mostly 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! It’s been a spell but we’re back! This week features new music from Stop the Presses and Catbite, and plenty of new-to-the-show bands! This week’s playlist: Stop the Presses – Wasted Youth...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! Earlier this week, during an “get to know your candidate” interview, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio affirmed his love for ska (along with reggae and punk, including The Clash). As a celebration of this momentous de...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska, always 100% vinyl, and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! …well, okay, this week is red wine. Tracklist Bim Skala Bim – In Our Midst Eastern Standard Time – Left for Dead New York Ska Jazz Ensamble – My Blue Ska The Dendrites – Oh Yeah? (Oh Yea!) Top Sho...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% Vinyl and always fueled by Jamaican rum! After almost two months 100% Ska returns to the “airwaves” for your listening pleasure. This episode features a slew of tunes never heard before on the show along with three, yes three, album reviews – The Specials “Encore”, the Max...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% Vinyl and always fueled by Jamaican rum! This week we celebrate the 40th anniversary release of The Special AKA “Gangsters”, and with it the 2-Tone label, along with the 2-Clone and 2-Influenced bands of the era! We’ve got some great, rarely heard tracks mixed in here, hope you enjoy!...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% Vinyl and always fueled by Jamaican rum! This week’s episode is all about the art of the cover song! The ska genre has been known for their fair share of covers, and the episode brings you some of the classics, as well as some newer and rare cover versions you may not have heard! This week’...

Your weekly dose of a ska DJ trying to emulate your favorite old college radio show. Always 100% ska and always getting buzzed on Jamaican rum while recording! This week, in addition to great ska music, I speak with Aaron Porter, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Prizefighters from Minnesota. We talk about their new album, Firewalk, the magic behind getting that Prizefighters sound, th...