Happy (belated) New Year from The Prizefighters! Over the holidays, we’ve been working on some new material and booking cool shows for Winter and Spring, starting off with a big one on Saturday, February 11th. You won’t want to miss The Prizefighters opening up for The Toasters, along with The Dropsteppers at the Triple Rock. See the flier below or the Shows page for more info.
Keep checking back for more shows to be added soon!
Friday, October 21st we are releasing Follow My Sound Special Edition LP on Jump Up Records! We get to celebrate this event with our friends The Dropsteppers and Umbrella Bed at the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis, with doors at 9pm and only a $5 cover. We hope that you come with a little extra cash to buy our new vinyl LP, but if vinyl isn’t your thing, we also will have BRAND NEW t-shirts and buttons for sale at the show. There will be a little something for everyone at this show so we hope that you can come out and party!
Check it out! We have officially unveiled the cover art of our very first vinyl LP! The album Follow My Sound Special Edition LP drops on Friday, October 21st on Jump Up Records. You can pick up your own copy at our Release show at the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis with The Dropsteppers and Umbrella Bed on October 21st.
Official Tracklisting:
Side A
Brujeria
Follow My Sound
Karma
Before Tonight
Hypocrite
There’ll Be A Day
Side B
Moonlight
Take More Time
Ghost In The Night
Truth And Lies
Fibbers Dub
We are proud to announce our release of the Follow My Sound special edition vinyl LP on Jump Up Records! Almost a year ago, we put 5 years of writing, rehearsing, performing and overall hard work into our debut album Follow My Sound. To commemorate that effort and to show our lovely fans a hint of things to come, we have recorded new bonus tracks and reworked old favorites with our new band members to put forth a special vinyl edition of our debut album.
The vinyl LP will officially be released on Friday, October 21st as part of the big MNSKA Double Release Party with our friends The Dropsteppers, who are releasing their debut CD Get Up In It! on Megalith Records, and long-time local favorites Umbrella Bed. The party will be at Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis, MN. Doors are at 9pm, $5 cover, 21+ show. Make sure to bring your extra spending money to pick up the new music!
As a treat for you all, you can check out our music player and stream 3 new songs from the special edition LP! “Moonlight” is a previously unreleased rocksteady tune we wrote a long time ago that we dusted off and improved with our new members. “Take More Time” is an instrumental horn version of our song “Take Some Time” written by our horn players Courtney Klos and Ryan Peterson. “Fibber’s Dub” is dub version of our song “Truth And Lies” created by our friend Anthony Abbinanti (The Drastics, Deal’s Gone Bad).
If vinyl is not your thing, stay tuned for a way to get a digital download of the special edition of Follow My Sound! Also, we will be debuting the album art and tracklisting soon!
We would like to thank everyone for coming out to the Summit Brewing 25th Anniversary Party last Saturday in St. Paul! We had an extraordinary time drinking great beer, meeting lots of new people, and getting hot and sweaty playing a nice hour-long set for fans old and new. Big thanks to Mark at Summit Brewing for inviting us to be a part of the festivities!
Above is a video of us kicking things off with a cover of The Skatalites classic scorcher “Confucius.” We will work on getting video of our whole set uploaded to the internet for fans to view and enjoy.
You can watch the video on YouTube HERE
Hey Mr. DJ! Our CD Follow My Sound is now in regular rotation at Radio K (University of MN – KUOM 100.7 FM Twin Cities). Please show your support and request The Prizefighters to be played: either email them at requests@radiok.org or call the studio (612) 626-4770.
Radio K also has a Chart Show where listeners vote for their Top 7 songs. You can vote for our songs and while you’re at it, vote for our friends The Caroloregians too! Vote HERE
Get ‘em while you still can! Tickets for the Summit Brewing 25th Anniversary Party just went on sale today and are expected to sell out fast! Don’t delay; buy them today! Only $12 for one hell of a party. Click below for the link:
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/53581?utm_medium=bks
The Prizefighters play first, right at 11am, so get there early and start your day off right by getting drunk before noon and dancing to reggae! You’ll probably also get a prime parking spot, too.
Now get your tickets before it’s too late!
Hey everybody! We are pleased to announce that we will be playing at the Summit Brewing 25th Anniversary Party on Saturday, September 10th! The event will be held at the brewery in St. Paul and will also feature big-time local music groups like Solid Gold, X Boys, Pert Near Sandstone, and Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles. DJs from Hotpants will be spinning rare soul and deep funk throughout the party and the event will be emceed by DJ Mark Wheat from 89.3 The Current. We will keep you filled in on the details as it gets closer to the date. In the meantime, check out Summit’s website for more info.
Our very own Aaron Porter sat down with Manual Dexterity Music Zine for a nice long interview. They chatted about the history of the band, the writing/recording process for the creation of Follow My Sound, the new band lineup as well as the ska scene in Minnesota.
You can check out the entire interview HERE
Our album Follow My Sound was recently reviewed in the international ska zine Rocking Steady! In their glowing, yet honest review, they said:
“(Follow My Sound) is stylistically somewhere between Madness, Intensified, and Hepcat. What you have here is an honest-made ska sound, straight from the heart, from Ska to Reggae and back!”
You can check out the rest of the review as well as the entire latest issue of Rocking Steady HERE
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
