* Ska saxophonist Rolando Alphonso of the Skatalites had a 1960s hit titled " Phenix City "

Georgia has had a decent contribution to the ska scene with the bands Treephort, 50: 50 Shot, and The Taj Motel Trio and ska punk has seen a recent revival in the state of Georgia with the regional ska festival, the Mass Ska Raid, taking place for the first time in 2008.

The Ska preserve a language and culture dating back to the last Ice Age and, believing that all other races and tribes of humans had interbred with Neanderthals, consider themselves superior as the only pure human race.

Several of the regulars of Ska Night had discussed forming a band which would be Hawaii's answer to the thriving " traditional ska " scene.

Things started to happen fast, and the new band had to act quickly, recruiting a lead guitarist, Lincoln Barr, formerly of the Santa Rosa Ska outfit The Conspiracy.

Ska was exploding in the West where Sublime and No Doubt had become KROQ-FM darlings.

It was at this time, that the Ska explosion had opened the door for the Swing Scene, which included the Daddies, who recruited M. Rey DeLeon as a touring Trombonist, and Tom Mattot, who was the LGB soundman since ' 93, and an Oregon native, as their Front of House Soundman.

The band declined recording a second album for Moon Ska and instead signed a deal with Ignition Records, a record label that already had an existing distribution deal through Tommy Boy Records.

Ska entered Mexico in the 1960s, when both small bands like Los Matemáticos and big orchestras like Orquestra de Pablo Beltrán Ruíz recorded both original ska tunes and covers of Jaimacan hits.

On the other hand, same history for a lot of well known bands like Devendra Banhart ( Naturalismo ), Los Amigos Invisibles ( Acid Jazz ), Desorden Publico ( Ska / Pop ), King Chango ( Ska / Latin American music ), Culto oculto ( Experimental / Rock ), Caramelos de Cianuro ( Pop / Rock ), Mikel Erentxun ( Pop / Rock ) and the now extinct but influential groups Sentimiento Muerto (: es: Sentimiento Muerto ) ( Post-punk ), Zapato 3 (: es: Zapato 3 ) ( Pop / Rock ), and Dermis Tatú (: es: Dermis Tatú ) ( Rock ).

* The Specials, Peste & Sida, The Aggrolites, Reel Big Fish, Los Pericos, Big D and the Kids Table, Amy Winehouse, Melt Banana, No Doubt, Adam Ant ( on the scrapped Save The Gorilla EP ) and Ore Ska Band have all covered " Monkey Man ".

Vasos Vacíos ( Spanish for Empty Glasses ) Released in 1993 is the eighth album and first compilation one by the Argentine rock Ska reggae band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.

( Fresno is home to some of the most influential Ska outfits of the later century, including Let's Go Bowling, as well as Kyber Rifles, Checkmate, and Los Hooligans ).

African soukous and Latin music, like Orquesta de la Luz ( オルケスタ ・ デ ・ ラ ・ ルス ), was popular as was Jamaican reggae and ska, exemplified by Mice Teeth, Mute Beat, La-ppisch, Home Grown and Ska Flames, Determinations, and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.

Klezmer melodies have recently been incorporated into songs by third-wave Ska band Streetlight Manifesto.

Ska and punk rock were first combined during the 2 Tone movement of the late 1970s, by bands such as The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, and Madness.

2000 ’ s Full Tension Beaters was a full on Ska record, and their first album to be released outside of Asia ( by Grover Records in Germany ).

* Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra: Best of Tokyo Ska 1998 ~ 2007-26 songs selected by Kin-ichi Motegi ( 03 / 21 / 2007 Cutting Edge )

*" Ska vi gå hem till dig " by Lasse Tennander

* The 1982 album Special Beat Service by English Ska / New Wave band The Beat used BEA's iconic 1960s " Red Square " livery as the design theme for the album jacket and promotional materials.

Mahpiya Ska has been certified by the National Bison Association as an albino white bison ; she is deaf and has impaired vision.

In March 1999 a tribute album entitled Respectable Roosters was released and featured bands influenced by The Roosters such as the pillows, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Kemuri and others performing covers of songs by the Roosters.

His affinity for reggae and ska is exemplified by his composition " Ska Reggae Hi-Bop ", which he performed with the Skatalites on their 1994 " Hi-Bop Ska ", and also with James Carter on " Conversin ' With The Elders ".

It was " King of Ska ", a rowdy and jubilant song on which Dekker was backed by The Cherrypies ( also known as The Maytals ).

North Ulfland is ruled by the elderly King Gax from his fortress Xounges, but the countryside is occupied by the Ska, an insular and militaristic ethnic group displaced from their original homelands in Scandinavia.

South Ulfland is nominally ruled by King Quilcy, but Quilcy is feeble-minded and in reality the barons of South Ulfland are fiercely independent and are more interested in fighting each other over ancient feuds than in uniting against the Ska.

The Ska, originally from Norway, were driven from their homeland by the nomadic Ur-goths ( who adopted the Ska culture and became Vikings ).

Aillas ' quest to find his son is interrupted when he is captured by the Ska.

Tatzel is proud and haughty ; her world view will not accept that she has been made a slave by an " otherling ", as the Ska refer to outsiders.

After a series of further adventures, Aillas and Tatzel arrive at Xounges, to find the dying King Gax beset by a Ska delegation headed by Tatzel's father, Duke Luhalcx.

His hit-and-run strategy finally prompts a tactical mistake by the Ska, who divide their forces into two smaller armies.

* Ska Evangelists On the Run Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra 1998 >> 1999-( 03 / 29 / 2000 Avex )

* Punk Vs Ska ( Compilation ) ( 2000 )

* Godfather of Ska ( 2000, Grover )

* Roland Alphonso-Something Special: Ska Hot Shots ( 2000 )

Together from 1997 to 2000, their studio albums include Before You Knew Better ( 1998 ) and " The Elements of Transition " ( 1999 ), both released on Moon Ska Records.

After failing to convince USA labels on the viability of SKA music in terms of a domestic record deal, in 1983 he founded Moon Ska Records, an independent ska record label, which went on to become the bechmark of the genre for 15 years before eventually folding in 2000, pressing more than 1, 500, 000 copies of releases by many notable ska bands.

The calf was temporarily called Tatanka Ska (' white buffalo ' in Lakota ).

Formed by students of St. Louis University High School in 1988, MU330 played a self-described brand of music called " Psycho Ska ", high energy ska punk marked by manic performances and humorous, often strange lyricism.

Lake Calhoun during the winter with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. Originally called by the Dakota " Mde Maka Ska ", which meant White Earth Lake, settlers later named it with the Dakota name " Medoza " or Loon Lake.

Previous to Buck-O-Nine, saxophone player, Craig Yarnold was in a Ska band called the Spy Kids, which also included Matt Hensley from the band Flogging Molly on guitar, and Scott Russo from the band Unwritten Law on keyboard.