Ska has been making its way back into the public consciousness more and more each year, it continues to attract new generations, and there continue to be so many great ska and ska-punk records coming ...

“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 ...

Less Than Jake at Riot Fest 2022 by James Richards IV People were already ready to declare the US ska boom dead by the end of the 1990s, but 1) regardless of the mainstream’s interest in the genre, ...

A new generation of ska-punk bands has a message for you, Rudy, and it’s all about unity. Embracing the 80s British ska scene’s politically charged idealism while taking musical inspiration from 90s ...

Mustard Plug’s fourth album, Yellow #5, finds the six-piece Michigan ska-punk band sticking to their fun-loving ska goodness, but toning down parts of their sound with mixed results. Yellow #5 offers ...

The post Ska Punk International’s Chris Reeves on Defining Eras, Great Ska Bands, and Running a Label: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. With Reeves’ business and artistic insight, In Defense of ...

Ska-punk, the sunny and uptempo and relentlessly cheery mutation of early-’60s Jamaican dance music that took over alt-rock radio sometime in the mid-’90s, is not considered remotely cool these days.

The post Did The Beatles Invent Ska-Punk?: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. As seen in both the work of the group and the members’ respective solo efforts, The Beatles weren’t strangers to ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the East Coast F U tour. In 1999, hardcore band H20 from New York and punk band The Bouncing Souls from New Jersey embarked on this tour, which helped spread ...

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

What goes nicely with the fast-paced, Caribbean-rooted sounds of ska? A good, local, surf rock band, thought Gil Cruz of The Jinx. And not too long afterward, in walks just that. The Wave Slaves ...