The post Rob Harvilla on ’90s Music, Ska Erasure, and the Defining Songs of the 2000s: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. As the host of 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s, Harvilla has explored quite ...

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 ...

There's a very good chance that you've never heard of the Venezuelan band Desorden Público unless you: live neck-deep in the world of ska music, the infectious, uptempo predecessor to Jamaican reggae ...

Ska may not be the most mainstream type of music now, but for those who remember its heyday in the mid-1990s, the subgenre that mixes horns with up-tempo, pop-punk riffs will always be fun. Mustard ...

Ska had a pretty bright moment in the U.S. in the ’90s, when bands like No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake helped push the then-mostly underground genre into the mainstream. But it was ...

Since launching during the pandemic, the Mile High Ska collective has been a source of community and friendship for local fans. Credit: Justine Bean Photography Picture in your mind’s eye the average ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

Returning to Stratford East after two decades, the vibrant ska musical The Big Life mixes the plot of Love's Labour's Lost with the arrival of the Windrush generation to London. With a big heart and a ...

Once upon a time, musical traditions mingled freely in the Caribbean. But after the Cuban revolution in 1959, Cuba's music became more isolated. The band Ska Cubano creates one kind of music that ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...