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 ...
“We’re the Interrupters! We’re from Los Angeles, California!” the young guitarist announces over a fanfare, as the camera pulls back and reveals a four-piece band, plus a singer, and a crush of ...
Ska emerged in Jamaica as a kind of ham-fisted combination of American rhythm and blues and Caribbean folk styles, such as calypso and mento, in the late '50s, but it flourished after the former ...
Mutiny is a new ska-punk supergroup featuring Voodoo Glow Skulls saxophonist Eric Fazzini, Voodoo Glow Skulls/Death By Stereo vocalist Efrem Schulz, Dissidente vocalist/guitarist Chris Ruckus, Voodoo ...
Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...
Gabriel Zavala remembers his time in the 1980s ska scene when cliques promoted division and violence was prevalent. He remembers how hard it was to fit in back then as a good Catholic boy who, up ...
The evidence that we are in the midst of a ska revival is plentiful. ­Indie-punk phenomenon Jeff Rosenstock managed a critical hit with “Ska Dream,” a reimagining of his 2020 album “No Dream.” The ...
Does your favorite artist like ska? There’s a Twitter handle dedicated to finding out that very question. Do They Like Ska? has already solved the “ska or no ska?” question for Every Time I Die, ...