CPSC finishes its three part January Primer Series with a shallow dive on the fastest genre with an upright bass: Psychobilly! Celine, Rob and Joey run through its history from its first wave in the wake of punk in the UK, to its proliferation in continental Europe in the 80s and 90s to its explosion in North America in the early 00s.

Hosts: Rob, Celine and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Joey
Theme Song: Keelan
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
Special Thanks: Mega Michi and Adam the Ska Mailman

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CPSC continues its three part January Primer Series with a shallow dive on the angriest unplugged music of all: Folk Punk! Rob and Joey run through its history from its history with protest music, to its brief foray in the 77 punk scene to its explosion in the 00's!

Hosts: Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Joey
Theme Song: Keelan
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
Special Thanks: Mega Michi and Adam the Ska Mailman

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Nice! We are kicking off our three part January Primer Series with a shallow dive on Ska's 90's sibling, Swing Revival! Rob, Celine and Joey run through its history from the classics that inspired the genre, to its flash in the pan success on pop radio all the way to the club filling Electro Swing of the modern era.

Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Joey
Theme Song: Keelan
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast

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The year is over and that means it's time to countdown the listener voted best episodes of CP/SC for 2024! In the second part Rob, Celine and Joey run through numbers 5 through 1 while sharing thoughts and behind the scenes stories on each entrant. Make sure you listen to Part 1 first to hear episodes 10 through 6!

Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

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The year is over and that means it's time to countdown the listener voted best episodes of CP/SC for 2024! In the first part Rob, Celine and Joey run through numbers 10 through 6 while sharing thoughts and behind the scenes stories on each entrant. Tune in next week for numbers 5 through 1!

Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

Merch: www.checkeredpast.ca/merch
Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE SKABADOOK!

In this year's Skaliday episode, the Skabadook finds himself in the woods trying to get one up on JigSka... only he gets more than he bargains for! There's past foes! Movie parodies! Songs? Oh yeah... it's a musical! Spend the holidays with Checkered Past and some scripted insanity as they fully ruin your childhood!

Chris Reeves is The Skabadook
Engineer Joey is L. Pf
Checkered Rob is Jigska
Checkered Celine is Skaba Yaga
Keelan is Freddy Gruber
Mega Michi is Elskaba
Common Sense Kid is Skanta Claus

Written, Produced and Edited by Checkered Rob

Call the troops cause here's a scoop for you! Checkered Past welcomes back Adam the Ska Mailman to dig in on the costumed superheroes of The Aquabats! First, Adam chats with Rob, Celine and Joey about his new project Lab Brats, his epic TikToks and even... potatoes! Then, the crew digs in on The Aquabats from their satirical early days to their blockbuster successes (with a very famous person drumming for them) to their confused, new-wave influenced fare in the early 00s. Tell you mom, tell your dad!

Make sure to vote for your Top 5 favorite episodes of 2024: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2LTJ77J

Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

Merch: www.checkeredpast.ca/merch
Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast

Time once again to pop sugar tabs from disembodied heads! Checkered Past digs in on the maybe Ska, maybe not Ska debut album of CanCon band Pezz (different Pezz hardcore punk fans!). Rob and Engineer Joey dig in on the bands one and only record, Watoosh! blind listening from front to back. Then, Rob pulls the rug out and reveals who the band would become and listens to their far more popular modern iteration. This one may surprise you! Or not!

Host: Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Joey
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast

By popular demand CPSC is moving up a fan favorite segment to a full length episode in a new series: Label She's The Bomb! For the first iteration Checkered Past welcomes Tennessee Ska-Punkers Stuck Lucky to talk about Community Records! Will and Jonsy start by discussing their Checkered Past, the origin of the band and swap stories from the Dark Ages. Then with the Checkered Past Crew they dig in on Comm Recs key early releases including the proggy hardcore of Fatter Than Albert, the political Ska Punk of Public Access and the emotional heaviness of A Billion Ernies. It's all capped off with a discussion on Las Cabriolas and a game of The Name Game 3.0.

Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast

Back by popular demand our favorite Skacore-respondent (who is also a dog), Maxi Taxi is on the ground at The Fest 22 in Florida to interview concert goers and bands on the ground for another patented series of Back Alley Interviews. Hear interviews with Plastic Flamingos, Hans Gruber and the DIe Hards, Flying Raccoon Suit and more while Rob, Celine and Joey listen and discuss from the Skankatorium in Edmonton.

Host: Rob, Celine and Joey
Skacore-respondent: Maxi Taxi
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Joey
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast