Monday, April 4, 2011

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day: SKApril
Mu330, "Vow Vow" from Mu330 (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: I was introduced to Mu330 in 1998 at my very first ska show. A great many of us (Blue Tree Whackers & fellow travelers) were there, all to see Reel Big Fish; Mu330 was one of the opening acts. That was the gold standard of opening act discoveries, a standard that has been impossible for any unknown opening act since to match, let alone better. It is from Mu330 that we learned the nickname of The Guy & The Gal's adopted burg, Saint Louis, "the mighty city by the mighty Mississippi." Mu330 describe their own sound as "psycho-ska," perhaps an allusion to psychobilly?

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