Brief looks at recordings on independent or smaller labels: ”This Gun for Hire,” the Toasters, Moon Records, P.O. Box 1412 Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10276-You can find some fairly radical ...

The post Dance Hall Crashers’ Karina Deniké Talks NOFX, Greg Lee, and California Ska: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Deniké wastes no time getting into detail about the band’s rocky history, ...

On a wide but quiet strip of Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles, in the run-down Casa Honduras dance hall, the ska kids are waiting for the next band to start. Couples are making out in the corners ...

The eeriest element on “Ska Cubano,” the debut release of the new Cumbancha world music label, is not the counterintuitive fusion of Jamaican ska’s scratchy, frequently manic meter with Cuba’s more ...

Well, actually, ska is experiencing somewhat of a revival. Drawing its inspiration from the original ska music, which is all about loud, vibrant brass, upbeat songs with staccato guitars, and the ...

Listening to Roka Hueka’s danceable Latin ska, it’s easy to forget that the band’s lyrics take on hard issues like immigration and racism. The music’s fun. It keeps you moving. It sounds like the ...

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 ...

Basketball may be the main attraction this weekend for Final Four fans. But music brought out the masses Friday night at Discovery Green, where Sublime with Rome kicked off the Big Dance concert ...

For those of us OC die hards who loved ska and grrrl power, and hated being under 21, Save Ferris’s 1997 debut It Means Everything provided the soundtrack to countless bedroom sing alongs, first car ...

They describe themselves as a band that “frequently performs in undergarments and sometimes less if air temperature reaches a certain level”. But their fans don’t mind. Because they are masters in ...

On Saturday night, ska fans, legends, and those who love them congregated on the outdoor patio of an Anaheim Hills pizzeria in an event that will go down as one of the most quintessentially Orange ...