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Legendary third-wave ska band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have returned with their 11th studio album When God Was Great, which contains the single “The Killing Of Georgie Part III,” which references the murder of George Floyd, which is relevant, well-intentioned, and a towering achievement in the field of no. Its video features Ben Carr, the band’s main dancer or “Bosstone player” bopping joyfully (which, no) around the streets of Boston while the song’s lyrics appear on walls, so that as you are hearing them and thinking “no,” you can actually read them, confirm that you have heard them correctly, and say, out loud, “No.” “We were so close to something that we all could get behind,” lead screamer Dickie Barrett screams (raising the question “were we?” which, looking back over the last few years, no), “and we could have made a difference, but the stars were not aligned.” A real Mercury in retrograde situation, this whole police brutality th ....
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones know we’re living in a fractured society. On the Mass. legends’ last album, 2018’s “While We’re at It,” they laid that out on an old-school Jamaican-style boogie called “Divide” (and spoke to overcoming that on the almost-rocksteady track “Unified”). Since 2018, the splintering has only worsened. But that’s no reason for […] ....
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4 hours ago The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have released a new song. The song is called “THE KILLING OF GEORGIE (PT. III)” and is off of their upcoming album When God Was Great due out May 7 via Hellcat Records. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones last released ....
The Boston ska-punk behemoth’s eleventh studio album, When God Was Great follows on from 2018’s While We’re At It and marks their debut for Hellcat Records. Produced by longtime producer Ted Hutt and Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong, the 15 tracks on the album reflect on the peculiar times the band, and the world in general, have found themselves in. “We were lightly writing songs before the insanity without any sort of timeline in mind,” explains frontman Dicky Barrett. “All of a sudden, the world changed and benchmark events in a very long career that we were looking forward to, such as playing with the Madness at the Greek Theatre, were taken away from us. With all of this time on our hands, we started writing at a quickened pace and we were really inspired. As grim as everything around us was in the outside world, this was the most fun we ever had making a record.” ....