Ska — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

With 2026 marking the 60th year since the birth of rocksteady, not many of that genre’s stars are still around. Keith and Tex ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister Bartlett will be a guest speaker at the launch event for the 1st Annual One World Ska & Rocksteady Music Festival. KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister Bartlett will be a guest ...

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, the Jamaican musician who, as Prince Buster, pioneered ska and rocksteady music, died Thursday, according to the Jamaican Observer. Campbell’s son confirmed his death to the ...

The AC30’s are back! With a set list comprising of The Blues Busters, Pluto Shervington, The Skatalites, Prince Buster, John Holt, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe, Jimmy Cliff, Alton Ellis, Toots and The ...

East Los Angeles is in the middle of a new chapter in its storied musical history, becoming the epicenter of an ever-growing, internationally recognized reggae, ska and rocksteady renaissance. Leading ...

Pick up our exclusive electric blue vinyl variant of the new Mike Park / Catbite split. “We’ve known each other since we were teenagers, just being in the Bay Area,” Mike told us during our recent ...

Jamaiican ska innovator Monty Montgomery has just announced an Orlando tour stop at the Social in December. Montgomery is better known as “Mr. Symarip” from ska band Symarip (also knowsn as the ...

Coventry is set to host a Ska Mania Festival at the HMV Empire on Saturday, January 31, 2026. Bad Manners and Buster Shuffle will headline the festival, as will The Skapones, The Skangsters, and AKA ...

At some point in the mid-nineties, third wave ska was everywhere. It was the upbeat counterpoint to grunge. There were, and remain, bands in the genre who were creative and made great music. As the ...

Alton Ellis, the Jamaican singer known as "The Godfather of Rocksteady", passed away Friday, October 10 at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He was 70 years old. According to an AP report citing ...