Coming this summer as a joint effort from Asbestos Records, Underground Communique Records, and the nice folks at Skaisdead.com will be an amazing little project that combines our obsession with dead genres and dead formats. Each series will be a set of 6 split 7”s from some of our favorite bands that **gasp** have the audacity to still play ska, and ska influenced punk rock in the year 2010. Available by subscription only, every other month you will receive two brand spanking new 7” records featuring both established, and up and coming acts including Reel Big Fish, Mustard Plug, Big D & the Kids Table, Bomb the Music Industry!, The Slackers, Sonic Boom Six, and more! So get out your dad’s old suit, and your mom’s old turntable and get stoked for the best 7” club of the year!

Please Note: this is a PRE-ORDER and your first installment will not ship out until late July/Early August.

You can PRE-ORDER the series HERE.

Frantic punk/ska/electronic project known as Bomb The Music Industry! has released a brand new EP that is short on songs but long on exclamation points Adults!!!… Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! Jeff Rosenstock and co. have crafted 7 strong songs featuring organs, horns, bells, and synthesizers that was recorded, mixed, and released in the span of 5 days.  Like all of BTMI!’s albums, you can download the whole thing for free over at Quote Unquote Records, but donations are always accepted.

The crazy ska/electronic collective known as Bomb The Music Industry! have announced they will be releasing an album of rarities that were previously unavailable for download.  BTMI! mastermind Jeff Rosentstock had this to say:

It seems to make sense as we have a bunch of 7″s and shit planned for the next year. These are tracks that have been tossed aside ’cause 7″s and compilations didn’t come out ever/yet, demos that ended up quite different from the originals but may not have been heard, some shit that’s just kinda hard to find, the first ever live studio recording and in one case, sweet introduction music that never hit the enormous PA that it was meant to. Yeah that’s not a sentence. Also there are a buncha covers.

The album, titled Others! Others! Volume 1 will be available for FREE download starting May 7th at the Quote Unquote Records site.  Not sure if the album title and album art are inspired by ABC’s LOST, but it would be cool if it were.

You can check out the tracklisting after the jump.

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After technical difficulties and a year and a half, Bomb The Music Industry! have released their latest album Scrambles.  Quote Unquote Records website has posted the entire album for download, as well as the band’s long-winded explanation of how they recorded the album, lyrics, and song notes.  This can be found here.

To download Scrambles, click here.

To buy Scrambles on CD/LP, both featuring a 32-page fanzine, click here.

Bomb The Music Industry! released Get Warmer in 2007 on Quote Unquote Records and Asian Man Records.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Chris from the MN Ska forum for submitting this story!

Skacore legends Mustard Plug and partyboys Bomb The Music Industry! have released a 7″ split as a part of the Under The Influence series.  According to Vinyl Collective:

The series finds bands we love recording songs that have influenced their song writing. The artwork is being done by the very talented Mitch Clem and Nation of Amanda who have been asked to make their own renditions of the album art that the song being covered originally appeared. For this third release, Mustard Plug are covering “Waiting Room” by Fugazi and Bomb the Music Industry! are covering “Gold Soundz” by Pavement. The 7″s will come with a coupon that will allow you to download the tracks as mp3s. The 7″ will be pressed as an edition of 1,000 copies (300 on translucent light blue vinyl, 700 on Clear w/ Neon Green and Pink Splatter vinyl). The Under the Influence series will also be available at your favorite digital retailer the first week of December.

You can stream the songs featured on the split here.

Jeff Rosenstock of the ecclectic ska-punk band Bomb The Music Industry! posted recently on myspace some details for their forthcoming album, Scrambles.  They are reported to have entered the studio on October 4th and the album is due out January 20, 2009.  Check out the tenative track-listing after the jump.

BTMI! have just come off an East Coast tour with Shinbou in support of their 2007 album Get Warmer.  They will be performing at The Fest 7 in Gainesville, FL as well as touring the UK in January and February.

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This is a big loooong interview conducted not too long ago with Jeff Rosenstock during a hour and a half car ride.

It seems only a few years ago that ska music was a foreign cultural phenomenon that nobody would admit knowledge of, let alone have love for. Bomb The Music Industry has helped make it acceptable to listen to punk rock with horns again, but don’t start the fourth wave jokes yet.
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