Syracuse Ska Forum

So, at my school, one of our foreign exchange students, Jorge, is from Columbia, and, at a "techno" party of his I went to on Friday, he showed me this song by an Argentinian ska band. It was freaking awesome. Him and I were the only ones dancing, and then everyone came up and was like "hey, that looks fun. Teach us!!" It was a pretty good time. I'll try to get more information on the band/song and keep you updated. Peace out.

Yeah, ever since Los Fabulosos Cadillacs really took off, Argentina has had a thriving ska scene. There are a ton of websites for them. There is a huge scene also in Venezuela and Brazil too. Colombia has some ska as well.

Lots of good ska down that way.

Our foreign exchange student from Ecuador was supposed to burn a bunch of reggea and punk from there but he never did. Maybe I'll remind him again tomorow.

Drudging up ancient history here but...

I talked to Jorge and he said the band that he had me listen to was called Ska Bananas or Skabananas, I don't know if it's one word or two. I couldn't find anything on the net about them, but, in the process, I found a pretty good German ska band called Go Bananas. Check it out:
http://www.gobananas-ska.de/
They've got some music on there. I like it.

Well, I found the song on the web, but it's not by Skabananas. It is the song "Canabis" by SKA-P. I f***ing love this song.

Los Pericos (sp?) are an awesome Argentinean band!

It's somewhat changing the subject, but I'm dying to find a good Puerto Rican ska band to play in Syracuse. I saw firsthand the wild reaction to King Chango at The Haunt in Ithaca and I'm hoping to even partially replicate that experience. I can't even figure out if Los Pies Negros still does shows in Puerto Rico, let alone the US.