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.

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 ...

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 ...

As if Orange County didn’t get enough of ska at this past weekend’s Back to the Beach Festival, the next few months could be considered the Summer of Ska. At least, that’s what Cameron Hallenbeck and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded in 1978, the English Beat were one of the pioneering bands of the 2 Tone ska movement, blending pop, reggae, punk, R&B and ska influences on infectious songs such as “Mirror in the Bathroom,” ...

Growing up in a white working-class Essex family, Pauline Vickers had no idea her real parents were a teenage schoolgirl and ...