Whatever you call this renaissance that ska's been having--fourth wave, New Tone, some secret third thing--there's no doubt that 2023 has been one of its biggest years yet. The genre's current leading ...

Some musical styles never die, they only recede to regroup and return again in a different guise. Ska is a great example of that. It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew on ...

Less Than Jake at Riot Fest 2022 by James Richards IV People were already ready to declare the US ska boom dead by the end of the 1990s, but 1) regardless of the mainstream’s interest in the genre, ...

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 ...