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, ...

Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

For September’s Bandcamp Friday, Bad Time Records, Asian Man Records, and Ska Punk Daily released Ska Against Racism, a compilation benefitting The Movement for Black Lives, The NAACP Legal Defense ...

Las Cruces, New Mexico, may sound like an unlikely place for a ska music scene, but it’s been home to at least two ska bands that have properly represented the music. One band is directly responsible ...

Ska and punk are tangled together like grapevines. While both genres originated elsewhere—punk in the U.S. and ska in Jamaica—they became thoroughly enmeshed in the U.K.’s music scene in the late ’70s ...

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 ...

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!

Dear Mexican: Lately, I've noticed a few bands, como Voodoo Glow Skulls, have embraced ska music in both at home and in Mexico. I was curious what the appeal is for Mexicans to ska music? Also, if you ...

Trying to turn a Mexican ska wave into a tsunami is what Los Estrambóticos is here to do. Since 1992, the six-piece band have been taking the stage and trying to spread the movement of Mexican ska to ...

*Prince Buster, the Jamaican musician widely credited with pioneering ska and rocksteady music, died in Miami on Thursday at the age of 78, his son Kareem Ali confirmed to the Jamaican Observer.