Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Hempsteadys. Credit: Brian Slattery Photo NME the Illest, vocalist and hype man for the New ...

TNSrecords is a UK not-for-profit DIY punk and ska label, home to great bands like Faintest Idea (who we recently highlighted), PI$$ER, Brassick, Knife Club, and ...

The ska genre, which often focuses on fast-paced horn-driven music, began in Jamaica in the mid-20th century. Today, music historians break the genre into three significant periods. Its origins are in ...

In May 2000 a band from Milton Keynes called Capdown released their debut album, Civil Disobedients, on London’s Household Name Records. They’d so far only released one EP, Time For Change, and not ...

Ska books have been all the rage lately, and here's a new one that focuses on women in ska, Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond, by Heather Augustyn and out now on Sally Brown Publishing.

Nervy art pop and a ska band for people who hate ska bands top this month's roundup of Vegas releases. PAN DE SAL, "The Revisits EP" (pandesalband.com): Pan de Sal's pop ephemera suggests that this ...

Ska — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

Two tone to the scalp: Tricia Lynn Gonzalez, rumored safe-cracker and vocalist of Some Ska Band, absorbing the scene at Fort Monroe. (Credit: Frank Augustyn) “Music has no border! Ska has no border!

A look at the new book In Defense Of Ska and a network of artists giving the oft-maligned genre a fresh burst of life When Aaron Carnes began research for his book nearly a decade ago, he didn’t ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: ...