Las Cruces, New Mexico, may sound like an unlikely place for a ska music scene, but it’s been home to at least two ska bands that have properly represented the music. One band is directly responsible ...

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 ...

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, The ...

Two tone to the scalp: Tricia Lynn Gonzalez, rumored safe-cracker and vocalist of Some Ska Band, absorbing the scene at Fort Monroe. (Credit: Frank Augustyn) “Music has no border! Ska has no border!

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 ...

Ska fans across social media are rejoicing as their love-it-or-hate-it genre gets a hit song in the year 2025. The song, titled "McDonald's In the Pentagon," is by a little-known musician named Silly ...

“I’ve been told most of my life that the music you love is not popular, and then it’s dead. And I respond, no it’s very much alive and it’s always going to be there.” Saxophonist David Hillyard always ...

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 feature ...

Heather Augustyn will never tell you that Hip Hop isn’t an American-born movement, but if you can’t pick up the Jamaican and Ska influences in it, you’re not listening close enough. For Augustyn, one ...