EP.182-Jesse Wagner & Eitan Avineri of Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra

On The Upbeat

Jesse Wagner (The Aggrolites) & Eitan Avineri (Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra) are on the podcast to set up your holiday season right, as they join to discuss the new WST Ska album, "Bluebeat Holiday". They share how this project got going and we learn about the recording process. And just what goes into the song selection for a Chirstmas album? Well that's a little secret Jesse and Eitan are happy to let us all in on. All that, and of course we give you some Ska News and our Ska Picks of the Week!

Eitan Avineri: wstska.com

Jesse Wagner: aggroreggae.com

Bluebeat Holiday Vinyl: wstska.com/#merch

On The Upbeat: ontheupbeatska.com

Ska News ……

-Hey-Smith

On Wednesday November 1 Japan’s own Hey-Smith released their new album Rest In Punk. It features 11 ska punk songs and Rest In Punk is Streaming everywhere now.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4FhRess5TiGML7doG1wP2e?si=t45RqGD5QeO-jIhLgjjCEw

- Super Jem

On October 31 Super Jem released a new song called As Cool As Me, produced by LA's own Profesor Galactico

https://open.spotify.com/album/1e0jcVvVbfK0JYIk9SINWU?si=ZBEBEHANTearJ8vKQ5uTBg

-Flying Raccoon Suit

Lastly, also on November 3 Flying Raccoon Suit dropped their new album Moonflower. You can order a vinyl copy from Bad Time Records and the album is streaming digitally everywhere now.

Bad Time Records:

badtimerecords.com/collections/flying-raccoon-suit

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/44ASESIE4S1Rw76k8AcRB5?si=aruIYzR1TSCfHqsothOUmA

Spotify playlist Ska Favorites: ⁠

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DikTsRPk4dspXejk9bFko?si=vaPlX9V7QVW9JsTRSUdqCg⁠

Ska News Theme by Dang!t: ⁠https://dangitband.bandcamp.com/music⁠

Main Theme by Millington: ⁠

https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music⁠