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My First Time: What It Was Like To Be In The Studio With The Braces In 1987

15 July 2010 Diary

Ska music today seems to be all about sound. Even new bands know exactly what effects they want and which equipment to use. They plug their Telecasters into their Twin Reverbs, hook up their Jazz Basses and make no mistakes. Producers like Vic Ruggiero and Victor Rice offer their services globally and set standards in [...]

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6 Special Posts From The First 6 Months At Joescholes.com

4 May 2010 Diary

You know what day it is today? The 4th of May 2010. It has been 6 months exactly since I published the first post on joescholes.com.

I have been thinking about preparing a jubilee post for today. Never came along to starting it. Not much time is left now. So let’s cut it short: I am [...]

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Ska 80 – Magazine – a document from the 2 Tone days you have not seen

27 April 2010 Ska History

These are exciting times for Ska people. Especially for the ones who like to look back on the golden days of the 2 Tone era. The Specials are causing a stir in the US with their 30th Anniversary Tour, as Marco On The Bass reports, while the UK sees the opening of the first 2 [...]

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Should All Ska Music Be Free? Two Sides Of The Same Coin

13 April 2010 Diary

Here is something I am undecided about: “What to make of free Ska music offers on the Web?” That’s why I asked two experts on the subject for their opinions: a label owner and a blogger. As you can imagine they have views very different from one another. But there is evidence that both love [...]

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Interview With Blogger Toneandwave On The Fun And The Politics Of Sharing Free Ska mp3s

13 April 2010 Interviews

This interview is part of the story “Should All Ska Music Be Free – Two Sides Of The Same Coin”. For the introduction to the article go here. If you like to read Matzge Broeckel’s (Pork Pie Records) stance on the subject, follow this link.

1. When did toneandwave start sharing [...]

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Interview with Matzge Broeckel from the German Ska Label Pork Pie Records about the effects of free downloads

13 April 2010 Interviews

This interview is part of the story “Should All Ska Music Be Free – Two Sides Of The Same Coin”. For the introduction to the article go here. If you like to read the blogger toneandwave’s stance on the subject, follow this link.
1. Since the foundation of [...]

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Ska – Rocksteady – Early Reggae: Which Online Radio Stations have it?

30 March 2010 Diary

Could you please help me out again? It’s easy to spend tons of time uploading your songs to all those music websites. Just to make sure that as many people as possible have the chance to hear it, provided that they are interested. You may start with myspace and Soundcloud, but where do you end? [...]

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What now, joescholes.com?

24 March 2010 Diary

What happened in the last weeks after the end of the Alpha Boys? Just to give you a quick update: More changes are there to report. I had to move my office, too. Not to another town, and not even to another part of Cologne. But still a move with a change in communication [...]

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Alpha Boys Are Dead

10 March 2010 Diary

When I started this blog it was supposed to be about writing songs for a new album, “hopefully by the Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes”. This hope is gone now. On Saturday, 27th of February 2010, the name Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes was buried. What happened? I will get into that later.
First here is [...]

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With which medium do you listen to Ska music?

4 March 2010 Polls

It used to be so simple when I started making music with my band The Braces in the early 1980s. You wanted to send a promo package with music to a local promoter? Just record a compact cassette. You’ve been to the studio to record your stuff? Press it on vinyl! You did not have [...]

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