For September’s Bandcamp Friday, Bad Time Records, Asian Man Records, and Ska Punk Daily released Ska Against Racism, a compilation benefitting The Movement for Black Lives, The NAACP Legal Defense ...

This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ takes a look at some of the most essential classic albums in ska-punk, a genre which — yes, really — is having a comeback. Tomas Kalnoky (left) with ...

“We’re the Interrupters! We’re from Los Angeles, California!” the young guitarist announces over a fanfare, as the camera pulls back and reveals a four-piece band, plus a singer, and a crush of ...

For a brief period in the mid-1990s, ska bands dominated the musical landscape. If you were alive and skanking at the time, it was impossible to ignore the cadre of 10+ member groups playing upbeat, ...

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 ...

Read the introduction to Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska & Swing by Kenneth Partridge. By Kenneth Partridge The following is an excerpt from Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ’90s Ska and Swing, written ...

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 ...

Kerrang! writer John Longbottom dons his pork pie and checkered Vans and goes to bat for the most reviled genre in all of rock music. Poor lad… Is there any genre that immediately invokes as much ire ...