JOHNNY CAKES & THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSO – Curse Of The Unsinkable Ship

1096916288-1In 2010, Real Gone received a sampler of punk and ska bands from the US.  As always with compilation discs, it was a mixed bag, but a few bands really stuck out.  One of those was Johnny Cakes & The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypso, a band mixing ska, punk and calypso sounds.  After hearing a few more tracks via their Bandcamp page, JC seemed to be a particularly accomplished band whom, crude humour aside, had the potential to stand proudly alongside Reel Big Fish and a couple of the other better known bands from ska’s third wave.

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ESA LINNA – This Is Who I Am

esalinna_thisiswhoiam1200In the summer of 2012, Finnish power pop musician/singer-songwriter Esa Linna released the ‘She’s Not A Human Being’ EP, gaining a few positive notices from genre-specific websites.  On the plus side, Linna more than proved himself in the musical department by playing a variety of instruments himself, while the presence of ex-Jellyfish man Roger Joseph Manning Jr gave things a definite lift.  Less fortunately, the vocals were often a little flat.  Viewing that EP as a sample of future things, is his 2013 record ‘This Is Who I Am’ stronger?

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