The popular group from Caracas, with a new album and tour bringing it back to Katy in March, refused to flee during the ...

The post The Chains on Making Ska Music in Denmark and Crying on the Dancefloor: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Ahead of their set at this year’s Supernova International Ska Festival, The ...

Aaron Carnes fell in love with ska music in the early ’90s. Skankin’ Pickle was his favorite, but the list of bands he listened to in the genre was extensive: MU330, Blue Meanies, Suicide Machines, ...

For September’s Bandcamp Friday, Bad Time Records, Asian Man Records, and Ska Punk Daily released Ska Against Racism, a compilation benefitting The Movement for Black Lives, The NAACP Legal Defense ...

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 ...

Some musical styles never die, they only recede to regroup and return again in a different guise. Ska is a great example of that. It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew on ...

It’s been called an “under the radar” alternative to events like Coachella and Lollapalooza, but music fans and bands from around the world will soon head to Hampton, Virginia, for the Supernova ...

Andy B & The World is an international ska/punk/folk collective led by UK singer/songwriter Andy B and featuring literally 171 other ska and punk musicians from around the world, including members of ...

Las Cruces, New Mexico, may sound like an unlikely place for a ska music scene, but it’s been home to at least two ska bands that have properly represented the music. One band is directly responsible ...

*Prince Buster, the Jamaican musician widely credited with pioneering ska and rocksteady music, died in Miami on Thursday at the age of 78, his son Kareem Ali confirmed to the Jamaican Observer.

Last spring and summer, Philadelphia-based ska punk band Catbite hit the road for a tour with their Bad Time Records labelmates We Are the Union and Kill Lincoln. Their June stop in New Orleans ...