The BBC has commissioned a six-part drama about the UK’s ska and two-tone music scene, which hails from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Two Tone (working title) will tell the story of an ...

Revisiting the early origins of The Specials, the pioneering Coventry ska outfitthat birthed the two-tone movement by blending Jamaican ska with punk rock.

Two-tone ska, one of Great Britain ... Keyboardist and 2 Tone Records founder Jerry Dammers' farfisa-pumping organ sounds volleyed with bass leads and interspersed punk guitar punctuated by the ...

Not many bands get the privilege of working alongside musicians and producers they love. The Toasters are one such band to have done so (creating record labels Moon Ska Records in the '80s and ...

Ska Boom! largely focuses on the American ska scene in the years in between 2 Tone and the explosion of the third wave, with chapters on pioneering bands like The Untouchables, The Uptones, The ...

John “Brad” Bradbury, the drummer for the Specials and an influential backbeat force in the two tone ska wave that swept the U.K. in the late Seventies, has died, The Guardian reports. He was 62.

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 ...

Two-tone ska was popular globally, and in the 1990s a big ska-punk scene popped up in the U.S. with hitmakers like No Doubt, Sublime and Goldfinger bringing the sound to the masses. Noah Zucker ...

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