For a brief period in the mid-1990s, ska bands dominated the musical landscape. If you were alive and skanking at the time, it was impossible to ignore the cadre of 10+ member groups playing upbeat, ...

Ska — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

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 ...

Ska never went away, but there’s more widespread interest for the genre right now than there has been in a while. Nostalgia tends to move in 20-ish year cycles and it’s been about two decades since ...

Playing ska music is inherently problematic for two specific reasons. First of all, the typical skinny-tie-wearing, porkpie-hat-clad outfit has, on average, like, 10 members. It’s hard enough to ...

There are few things singer Monique Powell of Save Ferris loves more than the winter holidays. “I celebrate all the holidays,” says Powell, who for 20 years or so has thrown an annual ...

Though the band Less Than Jake has been around since 1992, I have honestly never listened to them. I think I wrote them off years ago, grouping them with emo-punk wannabe bands of the early 2000s, ...

KEYSTONE – If not for the background story that named the band, 12 Cents for Marvin would have a typical formation tale. A group of friends from college – Colorado State University in this case – gets ...

Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer Prince Buster has died Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Twitter tributes have poured in for pioneering reggae singer, songwriter and ...

Ska and Reggae have their roots tied tightly around music in Jamaica in the 1960's. It has come and gone through the past decades and we're now seeing the 4th wave of Ska/Reggae resurgence. Here are ...

Is there any genre that immediately invokes as much ire and ridicule from rock fans as ska punk? No. No, there isn’t. And, believe me, nobody gets why more than I do. A quick rummage through my record ...