Author Topic: Dudeeeeeeee Streetlight Manifesto announced a new album for this year :O  (Read 568 times)

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Bebpo

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The only ska/punk band still worth a damn these days :rock

Been 5 years since their last original album Somewhere in the Between (2007), which was 4 years after their first album Everything Goes Numb (2003).  New Album The Hand that Thieves comes out Nov 6, 2012!


Both their albums are A+++++ classic records with not a bad song to them, which is why they take 5 years an album to cherry pick their best tracks.  Fingers crossed their 3rd will follow suite.





Tucah

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This band takes way too long to release an album but Somewhere in the Between was absolutely worth the wait. I'm very, very hyped for this, and the accompanying acoustic version as well.

I didn't even know that ska-punk still had a following. That genre is very much engrained in my mind as a mid to late 90s thing that was around when I was in high school.
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Bebpo

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Yeah, well that's understandable since most of the bands broke up or stopped making new music and just tour instead.  There's still a few bands that put out new releases, but Streetlight is the biggest and best "old-school" band that's still very active.  Between cover albums, acoustic albums, and touring they've kept busy between albums.  They have old-school roots too as the band was original Catch 22 in the late 90s and released one of the best albums that decade with Keasbey Nights.  Then half the members of the band left (including singer/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky) to form Streetlight Manifesto in the early 00s after a break where Tomas finished up college.  There's also Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution which is a side project of Catch 22/Streetlight+others and he releases acoustic versions under Toh Kay.  He's a pretty active songwriter/musician and the quality of his lyrics and compositions is extremely good.  He's sort of the Thom Yorke of ska/punk.