Skank You Very Much

Related Content

• 2011 Restaurant Opening and Closings
  January 5, 2012
• The Life of a State: A Timeline of Arizona's History
  February 9, 2012
• Guess Where I'm Eating and Win a Prize!
  January 6, 2012
• Claire Lawton on How the Mural Scene Boomed but Some Galleries Went Bust
  December 29, 2011
• Playing Chicken (Fingers): Raising Cane's vs. Rock-n-Roll Fingers
  January 18, 2012

More About

• Phoenix (Arizona)
• Tempe (Arizona)
• Ska
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Where can you find a fix of pure, unadulterated sensual pleasure for the insanely low, low price of $6? You know, without habit-forming side-effects or the use of needles? Try the Trunk Space in Central Phoenix, where some of the region’s top up-and-coming ska and surf-rock acts will convene for a night of frantic energy-release and mid-week abandon. Conceived by Valley live-music-gadfly DJ oneboycircus, the show will also afford fans a crash-course of sorts in ska/raggae literacy. Opening the event will be DJ oneboycircus himself, followed by Phoenix threesome Liam and the Ladies, who practice the “2tone” style of ska popularized by such 80s legends as Madness and The Specials. Next up are Tucson’s The Boogie Nazis, a high-energy surf-fusion band in the mold of Los Straightjackets. Finally, there’s the headliner: The Dendrites! – a rambunctious, nine-strong ska/raggae/surf instrumental outfit from Colorado that boasts a “wrecking ball four-piece horn section,” in the band’s own modest estimation. If you can’t catch them at the Trunk, The Dendrites! are also playing the next day at the Sail Inn in Tempe. Mmm, that’s good ska.
Wed., June 24, 7 p.m., 2009