If you liked horn music, the late 1990s was for you. Indeed, these are three ska songs from the 1990s that still make me get ...

Clemente Ruiz reveals how Latin ska punk created identity and community across Los Angeles.

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 ...

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 ...

Ska is one of the longest-running styles of popular music, and it has a rich history, one that spans over half a century, six continents, and countless examples of cultural exchange. It was born in ...

Of the bands to emerge during the first and second waves of punk in the late 1970s, few have maintained the streak of sustained success and influence that Fishbone has. Fusing ska, funk, reggae, hard ...

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 ...

Even with our extensive alt and punk rock roots, OC will always be recognized as the birthplace of 3rd wave ska. It’s been part of the fabric of the OC music scene for decades. The locals have ...

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 ...