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.

During the turbulent late ’70s in England, in the West Midlands postwar industrial town of Coventry, the second wave of ska exploded onto the scene like Motown did in ’60s Detroit. Six local bands ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bardon Quinn and Dante Williams in Steven Knight's This Town - Robert Viglasky/BBC For a brief and rather glorious period at the ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...