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 ...
Durango Trails is celebrating its 34th anniversary, and Ska Brewing Co. is joining in the fun with a premiere beer honoring trailworkers. The new hoppy beer is called The Trail Crew, and Ska is ...
“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 ...
Tape Girl’s bedroom pop-infused ska puts a genuinely new spin on the decades-old genre, and each new single she releases is great. The new “Shoveling (Myself Out Of The Snow)” is no exception. As on ...
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 ...
At this point, the jokes about ska are about as tired as the jokes about fedoras — which are maybe one of the more deserved of the many digs at ska. It’s got horns. It’s corny. It’s silly. It’s “what ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...