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 ...

It was a real magical time in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, where he had all these different types of bands and they all ...

VAIL – There was a time in recent musical history when any rock band that incorporated a horn section into its repertoire was considered ska music. The Toasters’ frontman Rob (“Bucket”) Hingley has ...

Southern California’s punk rock history is often focused on Orange County and Los Angeles, but 60 miles east of L.A,. the ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

“Stunted,” the first song from Ghost Tones’ latest release Live at the Cellar, starts with a long flourish from an electric guitar, a horn winding its way through it. Then the drummer settles in on a ...

Prince Buster, the Jamaican musician widely celebrated as a grandfather of ska music, died in Miami on Thursday at the age of 78, the BBC and other outlets reported. Buster was born Cecil Bustamente ...

A POLITICAL beat has run through ska music since its creation in Kingston in the late 1950s. It was music to dance to—an up-tempo fusion of horns, Rastafarian drumming, American jazz and rhythm and ...

2-Tone ska icons The Specials only made two albums before splitting into different factions — Fun Boy Three and The Special AKA — but their shadow remains long. For good and bad: they’re a direct ...