Ska may not be the most mainstream type of music now, but for those who remember its heyday in the mid-1990s, the subgenre that mixes horns with up-tempo, pop-punk riffs will always be fun. Mustard ...

Better Late Than Never, the Slackers’ first full-length CD, came out in 1996 on a label called Moon Ska Records, founded by a guitarist named Robert Hingley. People called him “Bucket.” Bucket was in ...

Before The Menzingers became one of the most beloved punk bands of the last nearly-20 years, three members–co-vocalist/guitarist Tom May, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino–played in the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two tone to the scalp: Tricia Lynn Gonzalez, rumored safe-cracker and vocalist of Some Ska Band, absorbing the scene at Fort Monroe. (Credit: Frank Augustyn) “Music has no border! Ska has no border!

As Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump rose to the forefront of punk and emo, he remained a lifelong ska fan, and more recently he's been publicly opening up about his love of the genre--he just wore a ...