I think it’s fair to call ska music a gateway genre. I know for me, growing up in conservative Christianity, it was the first sort of non-religious style of music that really pulled me in. As a kid it ...

A case could be made that the ska music scene in Southern California was born in part because the longhaired dude behind the soundboard at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip was playing too much ...

For a brief period in the mid-1990s, ska bands dominated the musical landscape. If you were alive and skanking at the time, it was impossible to ignore the cadre of 10+ member groups playing upbeat, ...

Read the introduction to Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska & Swing by Kenneth Partridge. By Kenneth Partridge The following is an excerpt from Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ’90s Ska and Swing, written ...

This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ takes a look at some of the most essential classic albums in ska-punk, a genre which — yes, really — is having a comeback. Tomas Kalnoky (left) with ...

The Inevitables story takes place in the not-so-distant future when Big Pharma has been able to produce a “cure for death.” Of course there’s a big number on the price tag that reflects such a coveted ...

Greg Lee, co-lead singer of stalwart L.A. ska group Hepcat, died March 19. He was 53. Lee suffered a brain aneurysm followed by cardiac arrest on March 17 at his home in Paramount; he died in a ...

As a new exhibition documents the UK ska-pop sound, stars including the Specials, Elvis Costello and Pauline Black recall how it opened up music, fashion and racial understanding 2 Tone Records began ...

A remake of a classic and fun to boot! Amaika Rude's album, The Ska and the Abstract Truth, evokes happy head nodding to the tunes found on Oliver Nelson's masterpiece Blues and the Abstract Truth ...

Ska emerged on the British music scene in 1964, when Prince Buster, the greatest of the Jamaican Blue Beat artists - who later inspired Madness - appeared on the British music TV programme "Ready ...