Modern ska’s greatest asset is a sense of its own mortality and an insistence that death hasn’t come for it just yet. Supporters are energized by a refusal to surrender to fashion and the pride of knowing they rescued ska from post-third-wave oblivion.

The Toasters, one of the States’ finest ska bands, also exemplify the genre’s tenacity. Following In Retrospect, 2003’s best-of collection, and a consistently surging tour schedule, the Toasters spent their free time slowly piecing together a proper Enemy follow-up — on this tour, five new songs will complement their back catalog of 13 studio full-lengths. Despite many lineup changes over the years (almost 50 musicians have called themselves Toasters at one time or another), the group’s approach to 2-Tone, R&B-inflected ska hasn’t changed much at all.

This article appears in Jan 25-31, 2006.

2 replies on “The Toasters”

  1. Too bad that Toasters (Bucket Rob Hingly) Along with his cohort jeremy arguably is one of the Biggest scam con artist crooks out there in the ska world today.. and is equally responsible for ruining the ny ska scene as a whole because of his careless greed and incompetents who allowed noah wildman to take the down fall during the moon ska embezzlement scandal.
    Bucket should be in prison himself. that’s why he move to spain to avoid justice that’s coming for him. it’s time that Interpol get’s a good look at this creep.
    Warning don’t ever do business that crooked scam con artist (Bucket Rob Hingly). don’t say you weren’t warned!. even pauline black will vouch on that with a capital V.
    Toasters Bucket Rob Hingly = Scam Con Artist Crook!-BEWARE!!

  2. Too bad that Toasters (Bucket Rob Hingly) Along with his cohort jeremy arguably is one of the Biggest scam con artist crooks out there in the ska world today.. and is equally responsible for ruining the ny ska scene as a whole because of his careless greed and incompetents who allowed noah wildman to take the down fall during the moon ska embezzlement scandal.
    Bucket should be in prison himself. that’s why he move to spain to avoid justice that’s coming for him. it’s time that Interpol get’s a good look at this creep.
    Warning don’t ever do business that crooked scam con artist (Bucket Rob Hingly). don’t say you weren’t warned!. even pauline black will vouch on that with a capital V.
    Toasters Bucket Rob Hingly = Scam Con Artist Crook!-BEWARE!!

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