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Experimental, avant-garde "Ska Noir" featuring members of the Slackers (Victor Ruggiero, Agent Jay), Victor Rice, L.A. ska boss Chris Murray and a host of NYC jazz players, inspired by reggae, 2-Tone, opera and soundtrack music.

Tooth is a concept album recorded in the late 1990s during the high-time of the NYC Ska scene. In a way, it's a time capsule that's being opened up right before your ears.

Tooth covers an amalgam of styles, from straight-up Ska to odd time Reggae, Free Jazz to Noisecore, Rock and Country ballads and capped with a solo piano track from Vic Ruggiero. The recording sessions resulted in each tune becoming a scene in a musical play, performed by a cast of highly versatile musicians.

There's some heavy weight players on the record: Vic Rice, Vic Ruggiero, Ageny Jay Nugent, Chris Murray, Patrick Carayannis and a bunch more.

This is a special timeless, genre-bending record almost 15 years in the making.

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Read the whole story here.

Make sure to check out Da Whole Thing's MySpace and listen to some tunes or download the whole album from Whatevski.org straight away!

Bar Solo
20 Inverness Street, Camden, London NW1 (Camden Town tube)
Thursday 26 August
from 8pm
FREE ENTRY!
double bill with The Spyders so get there early to catch Vic!

• Facebook link
• last.fm event
• MySpace link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7qVc6uHMw

8.50pm (sharp!), Almost Acoustic Stage

Some bands also playing that day: Bad Religion, Gallows, The Dwarves, The Slackers, Agnostic Front, Citizen Fish, Subhumans, 7 Seconds, The Skints, Stza Crack, Kevin Seconds and many more!

Weekend ticket price is £100. A day ticket for the sunday will set you back £35

check here for dates:
http://www.punknews.org/article/38902

ERIE PA!!! wed july 28th
1st ...vic and chris murray opening at 9pm for
The Fisticuffs w/ The Tradesmen at THE CROOKED I (1013 State Street, Erie, PA)
...and then official afterparty and guest performances by vc and chris with THE FORTHRIGHTS at THE BEER MUG (1108 Liberty Street, Erie PA) all night long
DONT MISS IT!!! free

dont miss the punk band that spawned the slackers! the mythological figure named HAPPY returns to the northeast!! summoning vic ,marcus, and ara now of the slackers bt originally of SIC & MAD!!!! ... dont miss... new and old records available

july 2nd -- early and late shows this day!!!!

NEW BRUNSWICK house show
7-9pm at "ramones song name house" (ask a punk)

at the THE LAMP POST FREE!!! FREEE!!!! 10pm
382 2nd St. Jersey City, NJ PATH Train to Grove St.

july 3rd -- at THE LAKE in BROOKLYN
THE LAKE
258 Johnson Ave (off Bushwick Ave) Brooklyn L to MONTROSE) 9pm $7.

Vic Ruggiero + The Hard Times
One Night Only
Rock-n-Roll Reggae Show w/CRazy Baldhead Sound System

Death By Audio
49 South 2nd Street

Doors at 8, show starts at 9. The plan along the way is 3 sets: Hard Times, Vic Solo, then Vic+Hard Times jam.

http://goodrudy.com/
...cool articles, including a funny one about me... ridiculous... i never know what kind of impression i make on folks...
scroll down to the bottom, its called "Lonely Nights and Coffee: Photographer Brett Nadal and Singer/Songwriter Vic Ruggiero Find Common Ground"

thanx for GREAT GIGS... some of the most fun dance party gigs i've had in a while!!