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 were, ...

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 a ...

Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

Aaron Carnes fell in love with ska music in the early ’90s. Skankin’ Pickle was his favorite, but the list of bands he listened to in the genre was extensive: MU330, Blue Meanies, Suicide Machines, ...

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 ...

The early-'80s pop scene got a welcome shot in the arm when a bunch of bands from Coventry welded the energy of punk to the mid-'60s Jamaican ska beat. A two-CD set, disc one of One Step Beyond is ...

Third-wave ska: The Toasters perform at the Red Devil Lounge. The 1980s-formed group is one of the longest active third-wave ska bands. [8 p.m., 1695 Polk St., S.F.] ...

They were a Canadian phenomenon. But to a future Vancouver director he was just the next door neighbour. When the 90-minute chronicle “Doug and the Slugs and Me” premieres Sunday on CBC and CBC Gem at ...