MNSKA band The Prizefighters had the privilege to open for legendary ska band The English Beat last night at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN.  Here’s a video from their set, with the band performing their songs “Storms” and “Brujeria.”

You can pick up The Prizefighters latest album Follow My Sound on Amazon.com or through Jump Up Records.

Last night, legendary ska group The English Beat played to a packed house at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN.  Here’s a video of the band performing “Tears Of A Clown.”  The show also featured MNSKA band The Prizefighters.

MNSKA band The Prizefighters have just been added to The English Beat show at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN on Sunday, April 3rd.  You still have until Friday to win a pair of tickets to the show by emailing mnskanews@gmail.com with ‘The English Beat’ in the subject line.  This show is 21+ with doors opening at 7 pm and music starting around 7:30 pm.

As reported earlier, The Prizefighters have a distribution deal with Jump Up Records, who will be releasing the vinyl version of their debut album Follow My Sound in the coming months.  For those who don’t know, they are a 7-piece band featuring saxophone, trombone, and organ supplementing the guitars and drums that combines heavy soul with real 60s Jamaican ska and early reggae.

See you at the show!

MNSKA is proud to announce the big show happening at The Cabooze in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 3rd.  Legendary band The English Beat are making their return to the Twin Cities for a big 21+ event, brought to you by Sue McLean & Associates!  In honor of the show, we here at MNSKA are giving away a pair of tickets!

All you have to do is email mnskanews@gmail.com with ‘The English Beat’ in the subject line and I will draw a random winner on Friday, April 1st!  Make sure you include your full name in the email.  Stay tuned to MNSKA.com for details about this show!

You can purchase tickets for this show HERE (oh, too cool to enter our contest?)

Louisiana reggae-rock band Outlaw Nation is returning to the Twin Cities for the Out On Bail 2010 Tour!  A couple months ago, this band came to town on tour with Fishbone and The English Beat at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN.  This time, they are headlining an 18+ show at the 400 Bar in Minneapolis TOMORROW NIGHT! Doors open at 8 pm for this Tuesday night show.

You can get your Outlaw Nation tickets ahead of time HERE

You can get their latest album New Day out on Stoopid Records HERE.  It features appearances by Miles Doughty (Slightly Stoopid), Angelo Moore (Fishbone) and Dave Wakeling (The English Beat), so go get it!

The weather is warming up here in Minnesota meaning that Summer is right around the corner.  It also means that the Music In The Zoo summer concert series put on by our friends at Sue McLean & Associates and Subway is ready to kick off.  This concert series takes place at the Minnesota Zoo Ampitheater in Apple Valley, MN from June 6th to August 20th and features numerous national bands from various musical styles and genres (including a Hanson reunion!)

There are typically a ska band or two thrown in the mix, but this Summer there seems to be a bunch of different ska and reggae groups playing:

Friday, June 25th — The Wailers, The Aggrolites
Wednesday, June 30th — Buckwheat Zydeco, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Thursday, July 22nd — Squeeze, The English Beat
Saturday, August 7th — Jimmy Cliff

Tickets for these shows and any other Music In The Zoo concerts can be purchased HERE.  Stay tuned to MNSKA for chances to win tickets to these one-of-a-kind shows!

Our friends over at Citypages have posted a slideshow of photos taken by Steve Cohen at last Thursday’s show featuring The English Beat, Fishbone, and Outlaw Nation at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN.  A packed house cheered on the bands with sweaty fervor, a real highlight coming at the English Beat’s “Mirror In The Bathroom” encore with Angelo Moore from Fishbone on sax.

You can check out the photos from the concert HERE.

Veteran 2 Tone ska revival act The English Beat have been chugging along on their U.S. Spring Skaward Tour with Fishbone and Outlaw Nation.  Last Thursday, the band played at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN and MNSKA contributor Patrick Larson was there to shoot this video of their cover of “I’ll Take You There.”

Seems like there’s a lot Fishbone news lately!  According to our friends over at Punknews.org, the band is currently the subject of a lawsuit for allegedly injuring a fan when lead vocalist Angelo Moore jumped into the crowd on February 23rd during a concert in Philadelphia. Forty-two-year-old Kimberly Myers, of Voorhees, NJ, claims a fractured skull, a broken collar bone and perforated eardrum when Moore jumped into the crowd The lawsuit is seeking damages in excess of $75,000.  You can read the entire news report HERE.

If you want to brave the stage-diving antics of Fishbone, you can go see them tonight at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN with The English Beat and Outlaw Nation for the Spring Skaward Tour.  I love a sense of danger, so you know that I’ll be there.

In honor of the big show tomorrow night (Thursday, March 4th) at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN, here is a Fishbone music video from 1989 for my favorite song of theirs “Ma and Pa.”  Fishbone are currently on the Spring Skaward Tour with The English Beat and Outlaw Nation.  The show is 18+ with doors opening at 7 pm.  Tickets are just $22.