Well, during a phone call with Fishbone’s Chris Dowd last week in honor of their upcoming Van Buren show, he asked me, “When was the last time you listened to a Fishbone record?” Then he added, “Be ...

During the ’80s in Los Angeles, a band of Black kids from the South Central area and the San Fernando Valley played a form of rock music with such vigor, bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers were ...

Classifying Fishbone is about as easy as explaining what makes Phoenix a desert environment. Some things just are what they are. So, while Fishbone is simultaneously labeled a funk punk ska soul ...

Fishbone is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1979, that plays a fusion of ska, punk, funk, metal, reggae, and soul. AllMusic has described the group as "one of the most distinctive and ...

It made almost too much sense when Fishbone singer and saxophonist Angelo Moore said his love for music came as a child watching Looney Tunes cartoons. My own first exposure to his ska/punk/rock band ...

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As part of the 20th-anniversary shows at Alex’s Bar this weekend, the LBC club hosts Fishbone in a Sunday-afternoon set. The funk-punk-ska-soul insurrectionists have always been a dazzling, energetic ...

Finally, soul music has returned, in the form of the up and coming R&B phenomenon, Bradd Marquis. He has an amazing voice and a stellar personality. Born Bradd Marquis in Trenton, New Jersey he was ...

Formed in 2014, Soul Ska is a Bay Area collective with a fresh take on the classic ska/rocksteady idiom. The 10 piece band is comprised of veteran members of Bay Area bands such as Vinyl, Stymie & the ...