Ska Boom-Episode 007: What is American Ska?/Matt Wixson

In this episode of Ska Boom I speak to Matt Wixson, who is a singer, songwriter, musician, podcaster, and improviser from Ferndale, MI.  We discuss the current state of American ska (what's the deal with Streetlight Manifesto and are they ska?) and have a lively intergenerational conversation– Gen X to Millennial -- about our different takes on what is and isn't American ska. Since 2005, Matt has been performing solo acoustic ska and punk under his own name, and electronic ska and reggae under the moniker Babylon Party Machine. Throughout 2007 he toured nationally and around the UK as keyboardist of the Connecticut-based ska-core band the Flaming Tsunamis. In 2010 he started the three-piece punk band Matt Wixson’s Flying Circus, with whom he has released three EPs, a live album, and various singles. As a guest musician he has appeared on albums by the Suicide Machines, Big D and the Kids Table, J. Navarro and the Traitors, the Fad, Heavensbee, and more. He continues to write and perform music and comedy in the Detroit area.Matt helped to found Hornpub Ska City, which is a vibrant and active Facebook group with more than 11,000 members focused on all things ska and for the past year has co-hosted Hornpod: a Ska Podcast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices