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 ...

The current leading US ska label will do the first Bad Time Records tour since the 2023 edition that was documented in 'This ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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?

A lot has changed since Florida-based rockers Less Than Jake rode the third wave of ska to stardom in the 1990s. Frontman Chris DeMakes said some of those changes are surprising to fans of the band’s ...