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Media: The Fad: "Ska-boom!"

Posted by aubin on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 5:00 PM (EDT)

Long Island ska/punk outfit The Fad have posted a new song from their upcoming debut for Bankshot! Records. The album will be titled Kill Punk Rock Stars and the band promises a sound for fans of the Bad Brains, Kid Dynamite, The Specials, Against Me!, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Suicide Machines or Gorilla Biscuits.

You can check out the song here: "Ska-Boom!" as well as some other music on their myspace page.

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Toxic_Toast (October 24, 2007)

lol skaboom

TheOneTrueBill (October 24, 2007)

More like Skaboner

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JerryCola (October 24, 2007)

Skaboobs

freesandwich (October 24, 2007)

Skapoon

GreenVandal (October 24, 2007)

Skabitch

skaboom (October 24, 2007)

Skaboooooooooooooooooooom!

GreenVandal (October 24, 2007)

You can't do one for yourself skaboner!

That fad was awesome though.

Those in the know understand ;D

niveK82 (October 24, 2007)

I am skaboom!

The_Mongoose (October 24, 2007)

the mongoose is skaboom.

GreenVandal (October 25, 2007)

We are ALL Skaboom.

errr, Skaboner now I guess.

ILOVESCOTT (October 24, 2007)

Omg

SalsaShark (October 24, 2007)

Aubin, I know you made a post for this just because of the person named the same on here (with similar music taste, no less). Admit it!!!

leatherface (October 24, 2007)

yea motherfuckers this song rules! makes me want to eat your face and skank all night. the fad fucking rule.

Hey_ska (October 24, 2007)

These guys are catchy. They sound like the Specials.

Centrics_Design (October 24, 2007)

They've got a pretty good sound.

Morgan (October 24, 2007)

Such a good band, and really nice guys.
They deserve any exposer they get.

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FatTony (October 24, 2007)

Pun, or Freudian slip?

skaboom (October 24, 2007)

This is the best article ever posted on punknews.org. EVER.

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ibitchslappedyourmama (October 24, 2007)

but do you like the band/song?

thepuglife (October 24, 2007)

very nice.

my band is playing with them on friday in indianapolis. i cannot fucking wait.

ianXisXpositive (October 24, 2007)

So they're covering the entire Toasters record?

EyesLikeBombs (October 24, 2007)

Okay, so my band is trying to get it's first show booked. I've been reading up on interwebs about this situation, and the rule I keep running into is: Don't pay to play.

Now we have an oppertunity to play at the "standard" hardcore/metal/alternative music venue in the area for our first show, and we'll be playing with several other bands. But this is where it gets sticky.

The guy booking it needs to make $370. If all the bands playing don't make the $370, we have to come up with the rest of the money between us and pay the guy booking it. If we do draw enough people, it gets split 30/70. This, to me, seems like a variation on the pay to play scheme, and my logic tells me not to do it. However a lot of the people around me are saying to do it. Personally, I'd just like to set up for free and play my songs and not get paid. It's our fir

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Hey_ska (October 24, 2007)

Don't do it. The guy booking is a moron.

RyanRockwell (October 24, 2007)

i'd also say don't do it, booking shows is a shaky business and sometimes you lose money and it's unfair for him to put that burden on you, set up your own shows with some friends band and have a good time, you don't need him.

KurtTGS (October 26, 2007)

Dude, Have the 30 people that have told you not to do it the other times you have posted this not convinced you yet? Don't do it.

And don't take your bands first show so seriously.

Go book some shows somewhere else, whether it's a house, a bar, a venue, or a freaking park or something. Besides, it takes a "first band" about 7-10 shows before things start really clicking.

Good luck.

gabbagabbamike (October 24, 2007)

This CD is great. I'm excited to see them in Gainesville. The singer sounds amazing on the record and the rest of the band play extremely tight and make an otherwise stale subgenre sound fresh and exciting.

deathmetalFUCKINsucks (October 24, 2007)

this band fuckin rules!

TeaEssAre (October 24, 2007)

They really have gone through a lot of changes.

Changes for the good, i couldnt stand that vinyl paradise song.

JayTee (October 24, 2007)

Hey the Fad ain't bad.

MeeSTa3k (October 24, 2007)

Horns and keys provided by members of the Flaming Tusnamis and Bomb the Music Industry!.

InaGreendase (brian) (October 24, 2007)

For all the time I've lived here I haven't really paid any attention to this band, but I was pretty impressed by the songs (particularly by the one that sounds exactly like the Backup Plan, which is probably fully intentional). Definitely looking forward to hearing this with the Suicide Machines leaving such a void.

Xine (October 24, 2007)

This band is so good.

I saw them last Friday and they blew me away. Bought the album and seriously can't stop listening to it.

damnitsderek (October 24, 2007)

This could be the happiest day of Skaboom's life.

neffernin (October 25, 2007)

I thought Ska bands had finally given up on the whole ska name thing

superskabro (October 25, 2007)

I can't wait to see these guys on Friday...

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