Alex Desert Discography of CDs

Alex Desert CD discography There was always something a little different about Rancid. Though they came into the public eye in the mid-'90s California semi-punk wave that included Green Day and Offspring, Tim Armstrong, Lars Frederiksen and company tackled the ...

Alex Desert discography Released six months after the completion of Yo Gabba Gabba!'s third season, Music Is.Awesome!, Vol. 3 provides another round-up of songs featured on Nick Jr.'s popular children's program. As with the first two volumes, many songs ...

Alex Desert albums Something of an L.A. supergroup featuring members of the Rhythm Roots All-Stars, Breakestra, and Madlib's Sound Directions, the Lions play a version of dub reggae heavily influenced by funk styles from around the globe. Deep dub ...

Alex Desert songs Chris Murray's albums are turning into an exercise in frustration. Not because the material isn't great -- in fact, it's amazingly consistent in its very high quality. Murray has an incredible ability to write ska, reggae, ...

Alex Desert music CDs Falling more between the sound of ska pioneers The Skatalites and the 1980s U.K. Two-Tone movement rather than the hybridized sound of third wavers No Doubt and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, L.A. natives Hepcat conjure up ...

Alex Desert CD discography Now on Stones Throw, the massive L.A. reggae group offer up all the slinky grooves and great musicianship of their debut, but This Generation also showcases a better set of songs and more ambitious musical themes. ...

Alex Desert albums Throughout the mid-'90s ska revival, Hepcat should have felt right at home, but ironically the multi-racial Los Angeles-based band couldn't have sounded more at odds with then-current ska trends. Instead of offering a fashionable ska-punk hybrid, ...

Alex Desert discography When a band calls itself the Culver City Dub Collective, you immediately think you know what to expect: laid-back SoCal reggae with a loopy "whoa, dude" groove. In this case, the reality is a bit more ...

Alex Desert CD discography Dave Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7: Dave Hillyard (soprano & tenor saxophones); Greg Lee, Alex Desert (vocals); David Hahn (guitar); Jon Natchez (baritone saxophone); Jeremy Mushlin, Roy Campbell (trumpet); Will Clark, Clark Gayton (trombone); Victor Ruggiero ...

Alex Desert music CDs New York's Slackers have been purveying their particular brand of Caribbean-influenced R&B since the mid-1990s, but they're not just high-octane ska revivalists. As their ninth full-length album, 2006's PECULIAR, attests, the band is all about groove ...

Alex Desert songs Zoot suits? Black & white Brando movies? Las Vegas show bands? Sounds like something your parents would dig, right? Wrong. Royal Crown Revue is the coolest of a small crop of bands that struck gold with ...

Alex Desert albums RIGHT ON TIME is the third release from Hepcat, the eminently soulful nine-piece ska collective. From the title cut's opening groove, the group plays it smooth. The same song features an answering machine message in which ...

Alex Desert music CDs All songs written or co-written by members of The Loved Ones except "Bow Wow" (Titus "Tee" Turner), and "Can't Stop Me" (D. Amy/Scott Mathews). Recorded at Bay View Studio, Richmond, California. The Loved Ones: Bart Davenport (vocals, harmonica, ...

Alex Desert discography Band leaders Joey Altruda and Willie McNeil take L.A.'s legendary Jump with Joey through 12 tracks of mellow, Latin jazz-flavored ska on this fine 1999 Will Records release. Swingin' Ska Goes South of the Border boasts ...