Roots Rock Rebel

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

10pm-12am, CKUT, 90.3 FM, Montreal!

Hello, and welcome to our weekly podcast! The Montreal Ska Festival just wrapped up here, and we are fast preparing for our annual funding drive special on SKALLOWEEN, Ocotober 31st! If you enjoy the Roots Rock Rebel podcast, the weekly interviews we bring you, and all this amazing music, please donate and support by clicking here!

On this week’s show, our special guest was Obi Fernandez. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Obi, he is of course the lead singer for the Boston-based ska supergroup Westbound Train, and he has been taking a break from the band to focus a lot on his solo music over the last couple of years.

Obi’s first full-length solo album was released on August 21st, and it’s called “Confessions, Waves, and the Garden State”. The album’s title sums up the experience of his new home in New Jersey, recording this album by the ocean in California (with Brian Dixon of The Aggrolites), and the honesty and sincerity of the lyrical content. The result is one that will please Westbound Train’s loyal fans, but also take you some place different. It’s reggae with tinges of soul and folk. A definite crowd-pleaser. You can buy the new album and get more information at www.obifernandez.com

Also in the show this week, we heard new music from a great new Queens rocksteady band, The Frightnrs, Toronto skinhead-reggae The Harmonauts, and Saskatchewan punk rockers Kleins 96.

Enjoy this week’s podcast, and please tune in this week for our Skalloween FUNding drive special and donate to keep ska radio and podcasts alive!

Until next week, stay rude, and stay rebel!

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To download or listen to this week’s podcast, visit: http://ckut.ca/c/en/oldgrid/wednesday,22:00

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Playlist – October 24, 2012

The Pioneers – Let your yeah be yeah (Mighty Crown remix)

Yellowman – Operation radication

Desmond Dekker – Unity

Tony Rebel and Macka B – DJ unity

Mungo’s Hi-Fi feat. Daddy Freddy – Dread inna armagideon

Mungo’s Hi-Fi feat. Sister Carol – Cuture mi vote

The Frightnrs – Walkin’

Obi Fernandez – Don’t turn away

Interview with Obi Fernandez

Obi Fernandez – Ugly comes out

Westbound Train – What you need

Eddie Bo – I’m wise

Bobby and the Heavyweights – Soul train

The Expanders feat. Alex Desert – Merciless deeds

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Inglan is a bitch

d’bi Young – Tallawah

Born Wrong – Promise of the godless

Kleins 96 – Yafa

Fucked Up – No pasaran

Refused – Rather be dead

Hold a Grudge – Those days

The Harmonauts – The slaughter

Ranking Toyan – Opportunity

Gregory Isaacs – Night nurse

Tanya Stephens – It’s a pity

Jimmy Riley – Life is

Cutty Ranks – A who seh me done

Courtney Melody – Screechie across the border

Top Cat – True confession

The Supersonics – Mash it

The Ramones – Pet cemetery

The Hellbound Hepcats – Hellbound hepcat

 

 

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