The BBC has commissioned a six-part drama about the UK’s ska and two-tone music scene, which hails from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Two Tone (working title) will tell the story of an ...

Some musical styles never die, they only recede to regroup and return again in a different guise. Ska is a great example of that. It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew on ...

TNSrecords is a UK not-for-profit DIY punk and ska label, home to great bands like Faintest Idea (who we recently highlighted), PI$$ER, Brassick, Knife Club, and ...

The headliners have been announced for the upcoming UK leg of the Ska is Dead tour. The tour will feature the Planet Smashers, Mustard Plug, and Bomb the Music Industry on all dates and two or three ...

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 ...

Two tone to the scalp: Tricia Lynn Gonzalez, rumored safe-cracker and vocalist of Some Ska Band, absorbing the scene at Fort Monroe. (Credit: Frank Augustyn) “Music has no border! Ska has no border!

A look at the new book In Defense Of Ska and a network of artists giving the oft-maligned genre a fresh burst of life When Aaron Carnes began research for his book nearly a decade ago, he didn’t ...

The Skegness Reggae & Ska Festival returns to the Lincolnshire coast from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th July, unveiling a powerful ...