Earlier this month, skacore veterans The Mighty Mighty Bosstones returned to First Avenue for their first show on that stage in over a decade. Here’s some footage from the show, featuring the band performing “Graffiti Worth Reading” off their 2009 album Pin Points and Gin Joints. Big thanks to our own Patrick Larson for the video!
You can check out the video on YouTube HERE
Boston ska-core vets Mighty Mighty Bosstones are returning to the First Avenue Mainroom after 10 long years away! The band announced their upcoming Summer Vacation Tour, which includes East Coast dates as well as 2 Midwest dates; Chicago and Minneapolis. The August 11th show at First Ave will be 18+ with doors opening at 6pm. The band released their album Magic Of Youth in 2011.
Tickets for the show are available HERE
Boston, MA ska-core veterans the Mighty Mighty Bosstones have posted an official music video for their song “The Daylights” from their recent album The Magic Of Youth. The video, which shows the intimidating world of indoor skateboarding, is available for streaming exclusively over at Alternative Press.
You can check out the video HERE
The Magic of Youth
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released December 6, 2011
Big Rig Records
Review by Tom “Bari Sax” Enget
After 25 years together, the legendary Bosstones are at it again. Their ninth studio album, The Magic of Youth, is another solid effort from the Boston Ska-Core pioneers who have never really released a bad album. It drops just short of two years to the day that they released Pin Points and Gin Joints, their well-regarded eighth album that was their first since 2002’s A Jackknife to a Swan. After all those years, Pin Points and Youth show that the Bosstones haven’t lost a step; they’re still a great band, capable of great things.
While Pin Points was geared more towards Ska, The Magic of Youth actually draws more from the Bosstone’s poppier influences, alá Let’s Face It. That’s not to say Ska isn’t stylistically present here, but it’s not as omni-present as on other records. There’s also some similarities here with some of the band’s b-sides and unreleased material from the late 1990s (free downloads of all sorts of Bosstones’ rarities can be found on the band’s fan forum HERE). The feel and sound is slick—but not overly slick. It’s comfortably poppy in the Bosstone’s own way; frontman Dicky Barrett hardly ever raises his voice to his trademark raspy roar, sticking instead to smoother singing. For a Ska band, the Bosstones are capable of producing a big sound in the studio—not quite wall-of-sound levels, but bigger than most Ska bands choose to create.
[check out the rest of the review after the jump]
Talk about some weird and funny news! Last weekend, the leader of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and announcer for Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Dicky Barrett went over to the house of his friend Bill Simmons (ESPN’s The Sports Guy) to watch NFL football. At some point the police were called by a neighbor and seven armed officers showed up at the house. The reason? Apparently the neighbor had thought that Simmons was out of town and witnessed tough, tattooed, menacing figures enter the home, presumably to rob the place. When the police arrived, they found four guys sitting in the living room watching football.
You can check out more information on this incident over at Deadspin
Our friend Bryan over at SkaPunkPhotos.com shot some amazing pics of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at their show at Irving Plaza in New York City, NY on August 24th. The Bosstones rarely tour the US anymore, but have hit the road this month in support of last year’s Pin Points and Gin Joints.
Check out all the pretty pictures HERE
Long-standing ska-core veterans the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are currently touring the country once again in support of their latest album Pin Points and Gin Joints. This video is from said tour during their set at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA. The band is joined by an additional horn player, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel! Kimmel dusted off his bass clarinet and joined in on the songs “The Impression That I Get” and “Devil’s Night Out.”
You can check out the video on YouTube HERE
Frontman for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and announcer for Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Dicky Barrett is today’s guest on The Adam Carolla Show podcast. The Bosstones are getting ready for their US tour so he decided to drop by Carolla’s podcast studio to talk about his old bartending gig in Boston and a truly epic journey through Mexico and the history of ska and some of the better reggae songs.
You can listen and download the episode HERE
Today’s video is from third-wave ska rockers Spring Heeled Jack. It was from a performance at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in 1998. This band featured quite the horn section, including Pete “JR” Wasilewski (Less Than Jake) on tenor sax, Tyler Jones (Reel Big Fish) on trumpet, and Chris Rhodes (Bim Skala Bim, The Toasters, Mighty Mighty Bosstones) on trombone.
It is exactly a week away from the long awaited release of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones‘ latest full-length album, which means it is PREORDER time! The album is called Pin Points and Gin Joints and will officially drop on Tuesday, December 8th. The band has posted 30 second clips of all the songs on the album on their FACEBOOK page for you to preview. You can also preorder the CD or the double vinyl LP on that page as well.
