The Rebel Black Dot Song o' the Day: SKApril XVI

The Hippos, "The Sand" from Heads Are Gonna Roll (Rude Boy Mike Papa Whiskey)

Skammentary: Every year, I think The Hippos are through as SKAll-Stars—especially since the sixteen years of SKApril have featured every one of the ten songs on their only purely ska-punk album, Forget the World—& every year they manage to hang on. I admire their persistence, which is all the more remarkable since they started to abandon ska on the second of their three albums.