MNSKA band The Dropsteppers are looking for a new organ player.  According to their statement on their Facebook page:

Doug Otto, our keyboard player, has decided to leave the band. We are in the process of looking for a new permanent keys player. 1st gig will be Feb 11th at the Triple Rock with The Toasters and The Prizefighters.  We are now having auditions for a full time organ player. Please feel free hit us up on Facebook for details.

We at MNSKA wish Doug the best.  If you are interested in auditioning for playing organ with The Dropsteppers, you can post on their Facebook page HERE

Since I’m not that great of a writer and I’m a bit lazy, I’m letting Jordan Porter write this show announcement.  Let’s face it, he’s better than I am:

This, my friends, is the stuff of legends. Pure solid gold. Absolute, 5-Airhorns-a-blazin’ lunacy. On February 11, New York City Ska seminal skankers The Toasters return for a 31st year of enlisting 15 year old kids into the 2-Tone Army (a-hey! a-hey!). Helping these elder statesmen out in the department of heavy hitting monster reggae will be two scorching local groups ready to turn your hips into jelly.

The Dropsteppers, fresh off their 2011 Megalith Records debut “Get Up in It!”, will supply you with their trademark soulful lamentations, with that added Perez Bros kick to take it up two notches.

The Prizefighters, having just released their vinyl-only special edition of “Follow My Sound” on Jump Up! Records, will make you about half an inch shorter from all the cartilage-grinding your knees will joyfully succumb to.

Saturday, February 11th
Triple Rock Social Club
9:00 PM, 18+
$10 adv./$12 door

Check out MNSKA for all the latest details, happenings, goings-ons, reviews, discussions, and best-dressed lists.

You can get your advance tickets HERE

MNSKA’s own The Dropsteppers released their smash-hit debut full-length Get Up In It! last November and it is currently in the running for Best Ska Album of 2011.  As a surging ska community, we should all show our support and vote for them over at joescholes.com.  It’s time to put MNSKA on the map!

You can cast your vote HERE.  You better hurry, the polls close January 22nd!

MNSKA band The Dropsteppers have had a busy year.  They signed with Megalith Records, put out their debut album Get Up In It!, and are have quite a few shows lined up before the year is out.  As a treat to fans, the band has posted a video of them playing a new song called “Looters On Broadway.”

Check out the band at the 331 Club in Nordeast Minneapolis this Wednesday!  They are playing with Brilliant Beast (featuring Jordan and Eric from The Prizefighters)

Check out the video on YouTube HERE

To commemorate their first release in like 10 years, MNSKA band 3 Minute Hero have put together a video for their song “Happy.”  The song is featured on their upcoming limited release F Minus: The Uncollected Works.  Trumpet player Bryce Blilie created the video with scenes from the movie Annie.  It’s hilarious and fun, just like the band.

Be sure to catch them at their release show this Friday, October 28th at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis with special guests The Dropsteppers!

You can watch the video on YouTube HERE

MNSKA band The Dropsteppers are now streaming their debut CD Get Up In It! on their Facebook page.  The album is being put out Megalith Records and can be ordered on their site.  The band will be headlining a huge release show this Friday at The Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis along with MNSKA bands The Prizefighters and Umbrella Bed.  The show is 21+ with doors at 9 pm and only a $5 cover.  Of course, you are going to want to bring extra cash to pick up the new releases from The Dropsteppers and The Prizefighters!

You can stream Get Up In It! HERE

MNSKA veterans 3 Minute Hero are throwing a party to celebrate their first musical release in over 10 years, F-Minus: Uncollected Works.  The show will be on Friday, October 28th at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis.  Doors are at 8pm and fellow MNSKA band The Dropsteppers will be opening.  To get you geared up for the new music, we posting an exclusive track from the new album:

“Happy” by 3 Minute Hero from F-Minus: Uncollected Works

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Here’s what the band had to say about their upcoming show and release:

“3 Minute Hero – isn’t that the band that…” Yes, yes, yes: public urination – but that is all in the past, like so many other things. First, let us dispose of the third person introductions. The 3 Minute Hero Show is back after a stint in our creative chrysalis and ready to emerge like the tantalizingly lurid butterfly that we are. We could tell you about our throbbing rhythm section, our undeniably handsome horn section, and our non-stop frontal assault on the banality of live music, but that tells you nothing. Come closer. Smell that? It’s electricity, and sweat, and liquor, and laughter, and possibly hair product. It’s the smell of you at our next show – and you smell great.

3 Minute Hero will be debuting their completely unexpected and unnecessary musical response to 9/11, the new album “F Minus: Uncollected Works.” Each album is numbered and features original, uninspired lino-cut art on the cover,  as well as containing a one-of-a-kind band photograph (which may or may not contain the band and will undoubtedly be out of focus &/or irrelevant). In addition to this, there will be a shiny disc with music on it – terrible music – from a touching ballad of pant-wetting  to a butchered Duke Ellington cover to a chalupa-induced hallucination. This promises to be the least earnest, most bullshitty,  fleeting,  uneven, and incomprehensible album of 2011. It’s also awesome as hell. You’re welcome.

MNSKA band The Prizfighters have unveiled the covert art for their upcoming vinyl release Follow My Sound Special Edition LP, available on Friday, October 21st on Jump Up Records.  You can get your own copy at the MNSKA Double Release Party at Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis on October 21st, also featuring The Dropsteppers and Umbrella Bed.

Tracklisting:

Side A
Brujeria
Follow My Sound
Karma
Before Tonight
Hypocrite
There’ll Be A Day

Side B
Moonlight
Take More Time
Ghost In The Night
Truth And Lies
Fibbers Dub

If you follow this site, you know by now that we are sponsoring a big ol’ release party featuring 2 brand new releases from MNSKA bands The Dropsteppers and The Prizefighters on Friday, October 21st at The Nomad World Pub.  To get you geared up for their special edition vinyl LP, The Prizefighters are streaming 3 brand new songs on their website, each of which can be found on the upcoming release.

Here’s what the band had to say:

We are proud to announce our release of the Follow My Sound special edition vinyl LP on Jump Up Records!  Almost a year ago, we put 5 years of writing, rehearsing, performing and overall hard work into our debut album Follow My Sound.  To commemorate that effort and to show our lovely fans a hint of things to come, we have recorded new bonus tracks and reworked old favorites with our new band members to put forth a special vinyl edition of our debut album.

As a treat for you all, you can check out our music player and stream 3 new songs from the special edition LP!  “Moonlight” is a previously unreleased rocksteady tune we wrote a long time ago that we dusted off and improved with our new members.  “Take More Time” is an instrumental horn version of our song “Take Some Time” written by our horn players Courtney Klos and Ryan Peterson.  “Fibber’s Dub” is dub version of our song “Truth And Lies” created by our friend Anthony Abbinanti (The Drastics, Deal’s Gone Bad).

You can check out the hot new tracks as well as videos of their recent performances HERE

Peep this hilarious Beatles spoof poster promoting the new album Get Up In It! from MNSKA band The Dropsteppers.  The album officially is available on October 21st, 2011 on Megalith Records.

Be sure to catch the band at the MNSKA Double Release Party with The Prizefighters and Umbrella Bed on Friday, October 21st at the Nomad World Pub!