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, ...

Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band the Skatalites, died Thursday at a Kingston hospital ...

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 ...

Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

But it was another of their songs, Save It For Later, that had significant radio play in the US and caught the ear of young ...

As one of her song titles declares, Gwen Stefani might be just a girl -- but she's a girl who, in true retro-'80s style, just wants to have fun. And she wants to take everyone else along for the ride, ...

Gabriel Gonzalez, the original trumpet player for the popular rock/ska band No Doubt, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 57. Gonzalez reportedly died in a motorcycle crash in Hermosa ...

The Cruel World onslaught on the Bay Area keeps right on rolling along, with so many acts playing the big ’80s music festival in Pasadena also performing dates up north. Following a better-than-decent ...