Singer and main songwriter Dave Wakeling brings his line-up of the English Beat back to Berkeley for a pair of shows at Cornerstone.

Taking inspiration from British two-tone ska revivalists Madness and The Specials, No Doubt made Orange County suburban boredom sound fun. But darkness lurked below the jumping good times. In 1987 ...

The post Potato 5 on the ’80s Ska Scene, Mad Professor, and the Reinvention of Traditional Ska: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Potato 5 wasn’t exactly a two-tone band, per se. They ...

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

As British two-tone band The Specials once sang: “You’ve done too much, much too young.” That brings us to the ages – 27, 26, 24 and 23 – of the starting quarterbacks this weekend in the ...

The British ska-revival band The Selecter formed in the late 1970s, playing what can be described as rock fused with calypso and American jazz. Much of what set the band apart was its charismatic ...

Two-tone ska, one of Great Britain's most influential musical eras, arrived on the heels of Margaret Thatcher-era mass unemployment and ongoing racism following decades of immigration from the ...

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63. Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the ...

Ska-punk label Bad Time Records is releasing This Is New Tone –a film that’s part documentary about the New Tone ska scene, part concert film filmed on the 2023 Bad Time Records Tour –on ...

The British band's goofy videos in the '80s helped make them stars in the UK. Now on a US tour that brings them to MGM Music Hall at Fenway, they're still happily making music that blends "serious ...

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63.

For a brief and rather glorious period at the dog end of the 1970s, the 2 Tone ska movement gripped the nation’s pop kids. Bursting forth from the Midlands with stylish chequered clothes and ...