#nycska

During the group's tenure of Licensed to Ill repute at CSl,NFC saw itself transform from a 90s-esque third wave ska outfit with a full horn section into the grittier skrunge/skacore version of now. This ain't your grandpappy's ska, so leave the sus-penders at home, Ace and maybe consider bringing that jock strap someone strapped on your head last week.

HOWEVER...

In light of our quinceañera which every giiirrll only gets to celebrate ONCE (and Jaime IS hispanic and never got one when he was a girl... so sad), we teamed up with almost all of the original members, including our main horn section, and picked 11 tunes that were all written between 2008 and 2012. Ok, so maybe dig those suspenders and fedoras out the trash, but add spikes or something at the very least.

Alan was always bass, but Jaime used to just play rhythm and lead guitar back then (all pics above pre transition). The band lost all but these two nutjobs after 2013 since it seemed ska decided to jump off a cliff as it does sometimes to get attention like a whiny teenager, soJaime and Alan kept NFC running on fumes knowing ska would probably recover (just maybe be hospitalized for a while).

We hope you enjoy the sounds of our possibly, probably, almost definitely inebriated college selves on these tracks. There's a lot of raw emotion that even we related to hearing them now.

Recorded at CUNY CSI, Version City Studios, and the Institute for Audio Research.

As a teacher I’ve been being trained on the HORRORS of the latest AI because our students might “no longer think” and just “type in a prompt.” First off, I can say with confidence these kids don’t even know where to BEGIN typing in the right prompt to get them what they need. But even for those that might, it’s not a 1-2-3 and you’re done game. Here’s some album art I made with DALL-E2. It took tons of reworking prompts to be more specific, or more broad, choosing variations, to guide, and sometimes starting all over again. 

Pic 1 if I recall (it was a few weeks ago) I believe I just put in something like “Ska album cover” and took it from there by adding extra things like “checkers.” 

Pic 2 I was plesantly surprised with. We actually used this as the art for our last cover (with some tweaks in photoshop of course). Here my promps were “NFC spray painted on train,” “spray paint needs to be orange” “must contain only letters NFC,” so on and on.

Pic 3 started with “Ska band,” I got creepy looking people, so moved on to ska album with checkers, chose some variations and made some edits and got that, which is pretty weird...

Pic 4 was “ska band with horns tripping on acid”

Pic 5 was ska band in the style of Andy Warhol (giving them an artist to work from works realllly well, which is prob why my graffiti one wasn’t so hard). Then I asked it to make it punk ska with checkered shirts. Oila!