The post Potato 5 on the ’80s Ska Scene, Mad Professor, and the Reinvention of Traditional Ska: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Potato 5 wasn’t exactly a two-tone band, per se. They were, ...

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 ...

Gabriel Gonzalez, the original trumpet player for the popular rock/ska band No Doubt, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 57. Gonzalez reportedly died in a motorcycle crash in Hermosa ...

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 ...

“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 ...