Gainesville, FL veteran ska-punk band Less Than Jake has just released a new digital EP Seasons Greetings From Less Than Jake, which is a companion EP to the one they released last Summer.  Here’s how the guys describe it:

Seasons Greetings From Less Than Jake! No, this is no Christmas record THIS IS 5 BRAND NEW SONGS, Written and recorded in the winter of late 2011 and very early 2012, This is a companion to our summer EP Greetings From Less Than Jake! Consider both groups of songs- the salt to the pepper, the peanut butter to the jelly, you get it right?
Happy 20th Anniversary to US and a special Thank You to everyone.

You can buy the new EP HERE

It’s hard to believe, but ska-punk favorites Less Than Jake are celebrating 20 years of being a band.  In honor of this benchmark, the band has posted a video that spans their career and includes great rare footage from their early days.  More 20th anniversary details will be announced soon.

You can check out the video at their website HERE

Party time! Excellent!  Prior to the first big MNSKA house party, local reggae-rocksteady band The Prizefighters sat down to chat about their brand new debut full-length Follow My Sound.  The band also debates whether or not Less Than Jake is a gateway drug, how King Django’s ability to lose footwear is second only to his audio mastering skills, and their Subway-style pricing for their upcoming CD release show at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday, December 4th.  The band was also kind enough to preview some the tracks from their new record, so quit stalling and start listening!

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Gainesville, FL ska-punk vets Less Than Jake recently toured the land of the Rising Sun.  Here is a behind-the-scenes video of their tour of Japan along with a live video of them playing “Automatic” at one of their shows.

You can check out the video on YouTube HERE

Gainesville, FL’s always lovable ska-punk band Less Than Jake released their TV/EP today.  The EP clocks in at around 13 minutes with 16 tracks covering television theme songs and television commercials that draw from vintage to modern day.  This is a video from last weekend’s Riot Fest in Chicago where the band played their version of the theme to “Animaniacs.”

You can check out this video on AltPress HERE

You can stream the entire TV/EP at the Less Than Jake website HERE

Yet another reason to head down to Chicago for Riot Fest October 6th – 10th.  Gainesville, FL ska-punk veterans Less Than Jake have announced that they will perform their 1996 revered album Losing Streak in its entirety at Riot Fest.  The album was the band’s third and their first on Capitol Records.  On a personal note, this album is second only to Hello Rockview in my opinion of their discography.

As if you needed more ska-related reasons to go to Riot Fest, Club Moonstomp will be happening on Sunday, October 10th featuring Roy Ellis (Symarip), Mr. T-Bone, Eastern Standard Time,  and Green Room Rockers, as we reported earlier.

Find out all the info for Riot Fest 2010 HERE

Gainesville’s ska-punk vets Less Than Jake played a landmark gig on August 19, 2010…aboard a cruise ship!  This marks the first time the long-standing band has ever played on a boat.  The show was part of the Booze Cruise 2010 in NYC.  Here is some video footage of the beginning of their set where the band plays “Anchor” and “Sugar In Your Gas Tank.”

You can check out the video on YouTube HERE

This video is courtesy of this week’s guest on The Flyover Ska Show, Pete “JR” Wasilewski.  This was shot at the San Francisco Warped Tour Date in 2003 during Less Than Jake‘s set.  The band was joined onstage with hip-hop star Talib Kweli.  According to JR, this video is the only recording to prove that this actually took place!

You can view the video HERE

Seems to be a lot of sax players on the show lately!  This week, Less Than Jake sax-man Pete “JR” Wasilewski graces us with his presence to talk about the upcoming reunion shows for his former ska-punk band Spring Heeled Jack.  Listen in as Courtney and JR chat about the influential force that is Fat Mike, what it was like being on a major label, and why the best LTJ songs were the result of incredible teamwork.

There are still tickets available for the Spring Heeled Jack reunion show at Toad’s Place in New Haven, CT on May7th and 8th.  You can buy them HERE

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Our friends over at ThePunkSite.com had the chance to interview Vinnie Fiorello, the head of Paper + Plastick Records and drummer for Less Than Jake.  He discussed some of his plans for the “paper” side of Paper + Plastick:

I’ve been looking for it and I think that what you’ll see start to happen is over the next few months I have a lot of records that will be coming and then after that, I’ll be concentrating on a lot of print. I’ve been shifting through a lot of young comic book artists, I’ve been shifting through a lot of photo journalists who do photo books. So to be honest with you, I’ve just been kind of looking at other authors to do books from them. I think that probably around Christmas time you’ll see the paper side of the label pick up.

At least two of those books will be written by Vinnie himself.

I have a book, an autobiographical book called Perfect Teeth that I’m about a hundred pages into. And then I have a tour story book called Fifty States that I’m almost completed with. Fifty States will probably be printed in a very Cometbus way, if you know that zine, it’ll be printed sort of like that. Everything will be hand written, everything will be very organic. It’ll be printed black and white. It’ll be tour stories. A nod to old punk rock: everything cut and pasted, everything halftone. It’s gonna be cool. You’ll see that probably around middle of the summer. And Perfect Teeth, I don’t know, it’s a work in progress. Hopefully it’ll see the light of day sometime next year.

It’s [Fifty States] basically every lyric I’ve ever written for Less Than Jake with stories about those lyrics; with pictures and just generally a very extravagant sort of look at the writing process of the lyrics and where they came from. Stories about the lyrics and about being on tour, it’s the companion piece to a bunch of Less Than Jake records.

In Less Than Jake news, Vinnie describes the band’s plans now that they have regained control of their own recordings:

August we’ll be doing a six DVD set of us playing all of our six records live. Then Christmas time will be the re-release of Hello Rockview and the re-release of Losing Streak. And then probably the late spring of 2011 will be Borders and Boundaries and then the late summer/early fall we’ll probably bring Anthem and In With The Out Crowd.

You can read the entire interview HERE.