The post Potato 5 on the ’80s Ska Scene, Mad Professor, and the Reinvention of Traditional Ska: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Potato 5 wasn’t exactly a two-tone band, per se. They ...

Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band the Skatalites, died Thursday at a Kingston ...

Ska started to hit in America not long after the 2 Tone movement took off in the UK in the late 1970s and early ’80s, and the way Marc puts it, the first real American ska boom happened in 1985 ...

Omnigone, the current band of Link 80‘s Adam Davis and Barry Krippene, released one of the best ska-punk albums in recent memory with their 2019 debut LP No Faith (and followed that in 2020 with ...

Third-wave ska: The Toasters perform at the Red Devil Lounge. The 1980s-formed group is one of the longest active third-wave… ...

But Pfahler joins In Defense of Ska to set the record straight, revealing he was not only catching various ska bands in the early ’80s, but that he continues to seek out music from the genre.

Gwen Stefani: latest news, photos and more of the American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and record producer. Keep up ...

Review: This classic ’80s act still goes ‘One Step Beyond’ in concert Madness delivered the ska-pop classics for fans in Oakland ...

The 69-year-old is best known for being part of the ska band Madness, which had success in the 1980s with hits like Our House, It Must Be Love, and House Of Fun. Foreman revealed today (Friday, August ...