KUNG FU SOUND System

Fitting that early grooves on last year’s Self Medication find the Slackers sounding like nothing less than primal recordings by Bob Marley’s Wailing Wailers, because especially in Austin, this Manhattan sextet stacks up as a true legacy act. Knocking on nearly 35 years of domestic ska, Vic Ruggiero & Co. channel Jamaican riddim-n-roots legends the Skatalites at their home away from home, Sixth Street reggae hub the Flamingo Cantina. Three consecutive nights stack thick, slick, slackerrific bills: Friday (Tiarras, Rat King Cole), Saturday (Los Kurados, Young Costello), Sunday (Micah Shalom). Kung Fu Sound System spins and dubs before, after, and in-between. – Raoul Hernandez