Hepcat

...mid-2007, original bassist J Bonner quit the band and played his last show on August 12, 2007 in Washington DC. He was replaced by Hepcat bassist David Fuentes. Fuentes died on September 23, 2007. The band entered the studio in early 2009...

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...music. The commercial success of bands such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who combined ska and punk with a prominent brass section, and Hepcat, who played a more traditional jazz and R&B influenced style of ska, presumably helped pave the...

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...support Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election . Desert has been a vocalist for ska band Hepcat since their founding in 1989. The band is known internationally and has developed a cult status separate and aside from his acting...

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...ska to the stoner abomination known as Sublime sprang from the Third Wave. Granted, bands like The Slackers and the reggae-leaning Hepcat survived the '90s and still thrive-and the relatively new outfit The Aggrolites is as good as the...

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Hepcat is a third-wave ska band formed in southern California in 1989. Their soulful harmonies and mellow rhythms were unlike those of contemporaries and more akin to musicians from the heyday of 1960s Jamaican ska, also referred to as...

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...punk variety. The band has shared the stage with performers such as the Skatalites, Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, The English Beat, Hepcat, The Slackers, Flogging Molly, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Deal's Gone Bad formed in 1994...

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...version is by Brenton Wood, which peaked at number 9 in the U.S., but it has also been covered by Danielle Brisebois, the Sattalites, Hepcat, Mina , Don Dixon and Peter Andre. Peter Andre's version was also his debut single, released in...

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...in their knowledge, like knowing that The Clash actually had five drummers in their history or that Alex Desert, the lead singer of Hepcat once starred as a teacher on a popular TGIF sitcom. This past week, while getting my haircut at...

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...find a label to release the 12 song set on. As previously reported the album will include covers of tracks by Fela Kuti, the Hippy Boys, Hepcat's Lino Trujillo, and Mexican composer Armando Manzanero. Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7 last...

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...this terrific ska cartoon about picking up after yourself. It made us laugh and laugh. I later found out that the catchy tune is performed by ska musicians GOGO13 and Hepcat's Alex Desert. Link a ¢ KidRobot's Yo Gabba Gabba! hoodies Link

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