Rocksteady Tonight's Podcast

Quick turn around with tonight show. I have departed slightly from the Sunday afternoon chill sessions, just for now. School is keeping me very busy and I felt i was getting a little detached to what was happening now in our ska scene. As a result I kicked up some new tunes and busted out some banger.  Have a lot of bands starting to get back on the road so go support your scene, and do it safely....

Another older episode of Rocksteady Tonight - I pulled a handful of shows a while back I wanted to post and things got mixed up, then they got busy and then I got side tracked. So here you go a show from around May of last year, but it was a real banger so I am posting it anyway. Hope you all enjoy it!  Stayed tuned to Rocksteady Tonight for all the best tunes! If you enjoy the show please subscri...

Another throwback episode for you. Don't get me wrong am still spinning live weekly shows, but these were some of the great older shows.  This one in particular is all traditional stuff, leaning very heavy on the Rocksteady side of things just where they should be!  As always stayed tuned to Rocksteady Tonight If you enjoy the show please subscribe and share. Live on www. BootBoyRadio.net   Sunday...

Here is an older show I had not yet gotten around to putting up yet.  This beauty features many older Rocksteady tunes, because nothing was a smooth as Rocksteady was!  So this this up loud or down low, snuggle up close or tie your shoes tight.  Just make sure you are getting down with Rocksteady Tonight!   If you enjoy the show please subscribe and share. You can also tune in Live on www. BootBoy...

Sorry it's been a while life gets crazy sometimes. The real kicker is I have some episodes ready to post. I am just wicked lazy!  So this week I am throwing you al curve ball. I am posting Episode #75 because my buddy Mark wanted to listen. I have the rest before this ready to go though, maybe in the next few weeks I will get them up. This show I take my regular Sunday Afternoon Session and put a...

With Summer fast approach and the weather ratcheting up I thought it would a great idea to fire out a show of some killer new tracks and some of my favorite older tracks and a couple of legends in there too to rounds things out.  Just what you need to get yourself fired up and into that dancing mood before the dog days of summer find you a drunken mess in a kiddie pool.  Be well friends ! If you e...

It has been a while so I thought it was time to post another new show.  While the best way to listen is live at the times listed below, I will keep putting up shows as I have the time to. This episode is a nice mix of stuff including a handful of new tracks from the likes of The Articles, Danny Rebel and Winds of Matterhorn for starters. As the weather gets nice the tunes get hotter. So fire it up...

I deviated my usual Sunday Traditional Chill Session this week, but fear not I still have you some chill cooking up. For the longest time I was not down with Ska tunes that did not have lyrics. As I worked my way backwards through 3rd Wave Ska in the tail end of the 90's I started to appreciate it a little bit. Well I appreciate it plenty fine today, but simply do not spend enough time doing so. S...

We all know that today's Rude Boy and Rude Girl's can be a little bit cheeky, but so too could yesterday's legends. In fact they wrote the book with Rocksteady! So this episode we flip through some of the true scorchers of yesterday and today. There is nothing as cheeky as an indecent proposal in the view of ska! I sat of this show idea for a long time, I hope you enjoy it! You can also tune in Li...

Spring is definitely on it's way. The days have gotten longer, the air is starting to warm up and soon I will be out mowing the grass. Sorry for the lag between shows school has been keeping me busy! Though you can always catch the shows live 3 times a week :)  This week I grabbed some new tunes, some great tunes, some favorite tunes threw them all into a bag and poured them out and this is what y...

So 2020 was quite a year. We all found the strength and determination we maybe knew existed. Would found the ability to persevere in the face of adversity. We saw turmoil and change, heard promises and lies.  Most of us come out of 2020 better people, but sadly some of us did not come out at all. This episode we mourn the heavy losses of the last year in our music community.  Performers who, while...

This weeks Episode comes on the heels of post Covid.  I was stricken with the plague, it kept me down a while and while it was mild it had taken me a little while to fully bounce back.  But I think it's safe to say I have arrived. This show I bring you a excellent cross section from across the ages and spanning the breadth of the genre, truly a little bit of Roots and Culture. Hope you enjoy the s...

Welcome this another special one off episode. Back in the 90's when Ska was rocking on all 8 cylinders another genre was making a comeback right behind it, this was Swing. I never enjoyed Swing quite as much as Ska, but I sure loved the dancing and the styles, especially all those legs! Gin and Juice and Cigarettes and a horn section was the right recipe for a good night out. The Swing Revival has...

Here is Part 1 of The Best of 2020. I suppose with the amount of legends we lost this year there is quite a lot of traditional Jamaican Music in my Best of this year. Our community took many blows and all of them hurt tremendously, but none more than the loss of Toots. I see there was a petition to have him added to this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it's about 50 years overdue, but everyone n...

So it's no secret that 2020 was a crazy ass year! Between the Politics and Covid and every other little thing that could go wrong and did the only normalcy I was left with (and a lot of you) was music. So I took advantage and listened the Hell out of everything I could find. I put so many hours on Spotify it borders on ridiculous, but that's what got me through the year. So this Podcast here, whil...

So Christmas has come again. Despite 2020 being virtually non-existent Christmas always comes! I am looking forward to it a little bit more this year than previous years though. A lot of the commercialization has been forgotten about, and with all the negativity in the world I have been trying to focus on the little people in my life, and making them happy.  Lucky for me, my kids enjoy music! The...

For a long time Rick and I have been kicking around the idea of churning out an episode of Oi! Tunes, but you have the usual complications when doing such a thing. This time we said to Hell with what the idiots thing, plus we had the blessing of the Grand Pooba of Boot Boy Radio. So what you've got is a mighty fine collection of Oi! tunes from yesteryear to present day. This should be enough to in...

I have been hearing a lot about Northern Soul, even watched a flick, still I know nothing about  it!  Though I do know quite a bit about Soul and Motown coming from just across the river from Detroit. So I figured with the world spinning as wild and crazy as it is right now we could all use a little Soul.  So I gave it to you, Super Soul Sunday so put a pep in your step, some sing in your thing, s...

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday I had the opportunity to chat with Aaron, Courtney and Tony from The Prizefighters. We spoke on a variety of topics including Charlie Organaire, touring prospects in a post-Covid world and the release, or re-release of their new FMS-X 10 Year Anniversary Live Album and Stream. The entire soundtrack is provided compliments of The Prizefighters as well, except for the E...

Hey folks - This weeks episode is the accidental accident. We carried over a lot of tune left over tunes from previous shows. When we played it out it seemed to be very politically motivated.  While we have our opinions, which very likely mirror your own. This is a place of music so we try to check the opinions at the door, we all enters as friends and exit as friends. Regardless we hope you are d...

Welcome back to another Episode of Rocksteady Tonight. While I have been love the traditional sounds from the 60's this episode I marry that sound and vibe with some performers from today for a truly awesome look at what is and what will be. One of the real winners if the name sake of todays' show performed by East Standard Time.  So come on in, take your shoes off and enjoy the ride! You can also...

Earlier this week Rick and I were presented with a rare opportunity to interview a few of the folks from the legendary band The Skatalites. Needless to say we were a bit dumbfounded, but embraced such an awesome opportunity. Once the nerves wore off I think we put together a pretty great interview. Would like to thank Ken Stewart, James K. Smith and Natty Frenchy for their time and a glimpse at th...

Thanks for stopping by for a listen. I had been feeling rather chill a recent Sunday spun out a pretty awesome set of Trad tunes.  So pull up a slice of the sofa, your favorite easy chair, a hammock or a workout bench if that's your speed and take 90 minutes and decompress with a nice vibe and some pretty sweet tunes . You can also tune in on www. BootBoyRadio.co.uk   Sunday (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EDT...

So while 2020 has been a less than stellar year for people, and the ska community especially we took a different approach for this episode. Rick and I had been talking about having people come on and co-host with us for a while so I spoke with Danny and Ali from Stop The Presses about this. They were excited to do it, now I will tell you this episode is our mulligan. The first time through was a b...

Before you tell me I know #49 is missing. This was a special episode, so I jumped #49 to get this out. With Toots Hibbert currently suffering from Covid 19, and his family requesting prayers this needed to be done today. I know not everyone is religious so praying may not be in the cards. Everyone is a fan of Toots though, so by playing my music and singing it out loud we can generate some positiv...