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 ...

The post Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Budgie on The Slits’ Cut, Two-Tone Ska, and John Bonham: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Budgie discusses the recording of Cut and what it was like to drum ...

Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

The six-part series will be set in the ska scene in Knight's hometown of Birmingham. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Two Two (working title) is set to tell the story of an extended family and four ...

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 West ...

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 tight 10 ...

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 ...