Our friends over at Community Records has just released a new compilation to benefit the Gulf Restoration Network to mark the anniversary of the BP Gulf Disaster.  It is entitled Head Above Water: A Response To The BP Drilling Disaster and features 36 songs, including previously unreleased tracks from Mustard Plug, Bomb The Music Industry!, Sonic Boom Six, Stuck Lucky and A Billion Ernies.

The compilation is FREE to download HERE, but please donate what you can.

Friend of MNSKA and bassist for Brooklyn rocksteady band The Forthrights, Sammy Kay has started an Official Tour Blog over at Musical Occupation.  The Forthrights will be embarking on the Ska Is Dead: Young Guns Tour with We Are The Union, Stuck Lucky, Brunt Of It, and Green Room Rockers.  After that, the band will be heading West with Maddie Ruthless on the Rocksteady Ruined My Life Tour, which will be hitting Minneapolis on Thursday, May 26th at The Terminal Bar, featuring MNSKA bands The Dropsteppers and The Prizefighters.  Read through Sammy’s first blog entry and find a free download from Babylon Party Machine (aka Matt Wixson) who is mashing up The Forthrights’ latest EP Camp Birdman with the sounds of Motown.

You can follow The Forthrights tour blog HERE

Nashville, TN ska-metal band Stuck Lucky has an upcoming 7″ called Dry Drowning being released in December on New Orleans label Community Records.  You can download the tracks “Dry Drowning,” “Cat,” and “Tag, You’re It” right HERE.

To check out more music from Stuck Lucky, check out their Myspace page HERE.