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 ...

Some musical styles never die, they only recede to regroup and return again in a different guise. Ska is a great example of that. It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew on ...

Spooky season may only technically span October but, for a lot of us, it never truly ends. We carry our Halloween season favorites in our hearts at all times, watching and celebrating chilling ...

Dissidente’s debut album arrives next week via Bad Time Records, and you can get it on limited-to-100 transparent blue vinyl, exclusively in our stores, or bundled with other limited and exclusive ska ...

Tape Girl’s bedroom pop-infused ska puts a genuinely new spin on the decades-old genre, and each new single she releases is great. The new “Shoveling (Myself Out Of The Snow)” is no exception. As on ...

Aaron Carnes fell in love with ska music in the early ’90s. Skankin’ Pickle was his favorite, but the list of bands he listened to in the genre was extensive: MU330, Blue Meanies, Suicide Machines, ...

Summer doesn’t officially begin until this Sunday, June 21. But it’s been a bit hot outside this week (when not raining), and in case you want to get an early start, why not begin with the official ...

Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

Bad Operation believes in the joyous retaliation of ska. The New Orleans band released its debut, self-titled album last week on Community Records and ska punk label Bad Time Records. It’s a tight 10 ...

Veteran Bakersfield Latin ska reggae group Mento Buru has released “Skalloween,” a six-song EP of reimagined Halloween music classics originally recorded and released by Bakersfield music icons Buck ...