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 ...

When we did our 2020 ska recap, I said that 2021 seemed poised to be an even bigger year for ska than 2020 was, and wow did that turn out to be an understatement. This year gave us three great new ...

They were a ska-punk band in a time when that musical style was youth culture’s common currency. While in the secular world, bands like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Rancid, No Doubt and others were ...

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A t 9 a.m. on a Friday morning in January 1978, Las Vegas’ first punk rock show took place in a garage during an assembly at nearby Western High School. Thirty or 40 kids ditched to see Bad Habits, a ...

Gabriel Zavala remembers his time in the 1980s ska scene when cliques promoted division and violence was prevalent. He remembers how hard it was to fit in back then as a good Catholic boy who, up ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fan-centric bands will do just about anything to get people to listen to their music. They perform in random places, they tweak their sound based on what seems to get the most ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Terry Hall, who fronted the groundbreaking British ska-punk band the Specials and went on to a noteworthy career in his other bands and as a songwriter and collaborator, died on Dec. 18. He was 63. On ...

Heather Augustyn's Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist offers an excellent study of a gifted but troubled man that succeeds both as analysis and narrative. By ...

The evidence that we are in the midst of a ska revival is plentiful. ­Indie-punk phenomenon Jeff Rosenstock managed a critical hit with “Ska Dream,” a reimagining of his 2020 album “No Dream.” The ...

Brewstomper Golden Ale is a new beer with a backstory. It’s a collaboration between punk band Rancid of California and Ska Brewing of Colorado, but it’s set to debut here. And here means Phoenix’s ...