But it's been a bit hot outside this week (when not raining), and in case you want to get an early start, why not begin with the official music of summer? I speak, of course, of ska.

”Ska punk is truly 'a young person's game' if there ever was one,” Bryan says. ”That being said, since I made this mixtape a couple of days ago, I've probably listened to it ten times.” ...

Aaron Carnes fell in love with ska music in the early ’90s. Skankin' Pickle was his favorite, but the list of bands he listened to in the genre was extensive: MU330, Blue Meanies, Suicide ...

Music fans and bands from around the world will soon head to Hampton, Virginia, for the Supernova International Ska Festival, Sept. 15 through Sept. 17.

Skanking in the wilderness of the uncool To tell that story, Carnes takes ska-curious readers to the midcentury ghettos of West Kingston, Jamaica. That’s where a heady mix of jazz, R&B and traditional ...

The post The Chains on Making Ska Music in Denmark and Crying on the Dancefloor: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Ahead of their set at this year’s Supernova International Ska Festival ...

A flurry of new books and podcasts cast at eye and ear back to Southern California's 1980s ska boom and its locus, the O.N. Klub in Silver Lake.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A new festival celebrating ska music will be held in Birmingham later this summer. Skalabama! will be held at True Story Brewing Company July 11-12. The festival will ...