Jeff Rosenstock returned to his ska roots on this year’s SKA DREAM — a ska reworking of 2020’s excellent NO DREAM — and he’s been doing some entire SKA DREAM sets on tour. Now, he’s written the first ...
Ska-punk is back, and so are DC ska-punks Kill Lincoln, who are gearing up for their first full-length album in seven years (and first release since 2015’s Good Riddance to Good Advice EP). It’s ...
Ska-B-Q: (noun) a social gathering taking place outdoors where food is prepared over an open flame, and music with reggae, punk rock and pop influence is played exclusively. For your summer Ska-B-Q ...
It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: teenagers throw a rager house party that explodes wildly to become a thing of legend? Yeah, well that’s kind of how the Supernova ...
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, ...
King of Ska Derrick Morgan, a still-touring music legend who helped launch the career of (King of Reggae) Bob Marley and the careers of many other Jamaican artists, too, is a treasure. Over six ...
Though the band Less Than Jake has been around since 1992, I have honestly never listened to them. I think I wrote them off years ago, grouping them with emo-punk wannabe bands of the early 2000s, ...
Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: ...