“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 ...

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 — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

There are few things singer Monique Powell of Save Ferris loves more than the winter holidays. “I celebrate all the holidays,” says Powell, who for 20 years or so has thrown an annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICO — Chico band Big Tree Fall Down has a message to all the rudies: Ska is not dead. Big Tree Fall Down, a seven-piece ska band comprised of Chico bands Boss 501 and Brass Hysteria, will bid ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Dec. 21-27 includes local ska/rock legends Spring Heeled Jack, singer/songwriter Madelline, the ...