Fishbone's Angelo Moore & Chris Dowd

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In the world of ska and punk music Fishbone are legends. We're joined by Angelo Moore and Chris Dowd, founding members of the band. Earlier this summer the band released their 8th full-length LP, Stockholm Syndrome. They talk about why the latest record is something they always dreamed of making. They also get into the bands that helped them visualize a career in music and so much more.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.1	It's Bolzai.
0:38.8	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:40.3	Skah.
0:41.7	You know ska, right?
0:43.0	We've talked about it before on the show.
0:47.8	Horns, guitars that play on the offbeat, a guy yelling, pick it up.
0:49.9	The specials, madness.
0:51.8	Real big fish, of course.
0:59.7	And punk?
1:00.3	Yeah, you bet.
1:02.4	We just talked about punk last week with the Canadian band Pup.
1:04.4	There are plenty of ska punk bands.
1:06.8	Mustard plug, less than Jake.
1:09.2	Up Ivy?
1:14.8	Smart friends. What's in you? Mustard plug, less than Jake? Up Ivy? And there's funk.
1:19.3	Another genre that we talk about all the time here on Bullseye.
1:22.4	One of my favorites, maybe my favorite.
1:24.6	Parliament, Sly Stone, Cool in the Gang.
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