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, ...

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 ...

It’s a full-on ska/reggae/rock album–their first time making an entire album in this style–and some of the tracks even come directly from demos the band made in the early ’80s.

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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 ...

Later, ska became more mainstream and popularized due to its integration with disenfranchised punk rockers, and the punk and pop-punk sound which occurred during the ’80s and ’90s in America.

The 69-year-old is best known for being part of the ska band Madness, which had success in the 1980s with hits like Our House, It Must Be Love, and House Of Fun. Foreman revealed today (Friday, August ...

Basic Radio was not a traditional ska band, or even trying to emulate the 2 Tone Records sound in any way. The group, whose members included Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, played rock, punk, and ...

NME the Illest, vocalist and hype man for the New London-based ska band the Hempsteadys, had a couple instructions for the crowd at the beginning of their set at the Cellar on Treadwell Saturday night ...