Hometown Sounds

Congrats and happy album release day to Can’t Complain, the first full length from ska legends Kill Lincoln in 7 years. “Ignorance Is Bliss” is the album’s first music video, and it accurately reflects the social distance we all must practice. The original idea for the video involved a “giant dance party with all our friends”, but KL still made a fantastic, energetic vid thanks to the high jumps of dedicated hypeman Drew Skibitsky. Tune in at 8 PM tonight for the live listening party!

BONUS! Kill Lincoln also recently posted two live videos from Tokyo and Fest 18, and now we miss live music more than ever.

Kill Lincoln (what a DC band name!) keep the ska flame burning bright with big brass, peppy beats and an honest to god hype man who can’t keep his feet on the stage. Their most recent release Good Riddance to Good Advice is getting pressed to vinyl by Bad Time Records, and music like this makes everyone want to celebrate. Side A contains all 6 tracks from the original Good Riddance to Good Advice EP, while Side B contains the single “Second Cities” and 4 live tracks. Before the release party blows up the Black Cat backstage on Friday August 10th, you’ve got time to learn all the words in the new video for “Second Cities”. This compilation of dancing crowd shots, boomerangs and animated lyrics by artist Ryan Troy Ford add up to way more than the sum of their parts.

The last song on this week’s episode of the Hometown Sounds podcast is the title track from ska band Kill Lincoln‘s final EP Good Riddance to Good Advice on Jump Start Records. As we mentioned on the show, the band made a music video for the song, and it kicks just as much ass as you thought it would. The video features hypeman Drew Skibitsky doing what God put him on this earth to do, and that is get everyone super pumped for everything! First thing in the morning, Drew gets up, puts on a suit and tie and insanely dances his way to work, spreading infectuous joy even in the snow. There’s no way I could ever be that excited to go to work, unless my job involved whiteboarding the (totally incorrect) history of ska music to coworkers. Sadly Kill Lincoln’s show last Saturday night at the Black Cat was the final DC performance for the high-energy ska punks, so buy their EP and don’t ever stop dancing.