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 ...

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-punk, the sunny and uptempo and relentlessly cheery mutation of early-’60s Jamaican dance music that took over alt-rock radio sometime in the mid-’90s, is not considered remotely cool these days.

Basketball may be the main attraction this weekend for Final Four fans. But music brought out the masses Friday night at Discovery Green, where Sublime with Rome kicked off the Big Dance concert ...

Salem is getting its own punk and ska music festival. MIG Fest, happening July 17, will bring four bands from around Oregon to the Minto Island Growers farm in south Salem for an evening of fresh food ...

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, ...

On a wide but quiet strip of Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles, in the run-down Casa Honduras dance hall, the ska kids are waiting for the next band to start. Couples are making out in the corners ...

The Uptones broke up more than 20 years ago, although Eric Dinwiddie, Paul Jackson and Ben Eastwood never stopped playing music together. The pioneer Berkeley ska band that started when its members ...

Ska-punk, the sunny and uptempo and relentlessly cheery mutation of early-’60s Jamaican dance music that took over alt-rock radio sometime in the mid-’90s, is not considered remotely cool these days.