Hadliners Yächtley Crëw and Save Ferris play the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 29, launching both bands ...

The return of 24-7 Spyz might appear to be an undisguised attempt to cash in on the ska-rock sound that the band pioneered at the end of the 1980s, producing recent hits for groups such as No Doubt ...

“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?

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 ...

CHICO — Chico band Big Tree Fall Down has a message to all the rudies: Ska is not dead. Big Tree Fall Down, a seven-piece ska band comprised of Chico bands Boss 501 and Brass Hysteria, will bid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 weekend following the Memorial Day holiday is traditionally a little on the slow side, but you’d never know it by the local concert lineup for the evenings ahead. Area venues have booked a solid ...

When we did our 2020 ska recap, I said that 2021 seemed poised to be an even bigger year for ska than 2020 was, and wow did that turn out to be an understatement. This year gave us three great new ...