Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

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.

It’s a chilly night in early November, but the crowd of kids gathered outside 910 Live in Tempe is feeling plenty warm. It isn’t surprising, given that they’ve spent most of the past hour skanking up ...

Noisey has posted the second part of their three part documentary series called Under the Influence. Narrated by Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy, The Transplants), the series traces the roots of ...

40 years ago a new, fresh sound exploded out of the UK music scene which is still fervently loved today.... Ska was born! This second article looks at the history of ska, especially Two Tone, and how ...

The BBC has commissioned a six-part drama about the UK’s ska and two-tone music scene, which hails from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Two Tone (working title) will tell the story of an ...

The post Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Budgie on The Slits’ Cut, Two-Tone Ska, and John Bonham: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Budgie discusses the recording of Cut and what it was like to drum ...

A CLASSIC Prince Buster song has the famous lyric, "Don't call me Scarface". But a 10-piece band have done just that — with a twist. The aptly named Ska Face, from Blackpool, have made quite a name ...

The Rude Boyz with full horn section are back with special guest The Skafather playing all the Ska 2-Tone Reggae & Trojan Bangers.. This event will be in our all seated Cabaret Setting with Red ...

When you ask the younger dubstep generation what ska is, they will usually begin to wax poetic about bands like No Doubt, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake – the kind of ...

Playing all the two-tone classics from Madness, The Specials, Bad Manners and The Beat, as well as slipping in a few banging ska tunes of our own, we have an infectious energy in our live performances ...