“We’re the Interrupters! We’re from Los Angeles, California!” the young guitarist announces over a fanfare, as the camera pulls back and reveals a four-piece band, plus a singer, and a crush of ...

Heather Augustyn's Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist offers an excellent study of a gifted but troubled man that succeeds both as analysis and narrative. By ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Ernest Ranglin’s innovative guitar style help shape the evolution of ska, ...

The 1998 Sgt. Scagnetti tune “Slideshow” opens with the line, “Step into the spotlight/ travel with the circus,” an invitation the band follows with three minutes of carnivalesque horns set to a herky ...

Ska emerged in Jamaica as a kind of ham-fisted combination of American rhythm and blues and Caribbean folk styles, such as calypso and mento, in the late '50s, but it flourished after the former ...

SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso and rhythm and blues, it was a precursor to rocksteady and what is now called reggae. SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso ...

ollege newspapers serve as a credibility soapbox, of sorts. Music critics the country over pen sprawling slobber-sessions on hyped, blogged-about, tight-pant-wearing bands who are mere months old. A ...

The eeriest element on “Ska Cubano,” the debut release of the new Cumbancha world music label, is not the counterintuitive fusion of Jamaican ska’s scratchy, frequently manic meter with Cuba’s more ...

The Uptones broke up more than 20 years ago, although Eric Dinwiddie, Paul Jackson and Ben Eastwood never stopped playing music together. The pioneer Berkeley ska band that started when its members ...

Southeastern Idaho might seem like an unlikely locale to negotiate a career move. Yet it was during a tour stop in the seemingly docile town of Pocatello that The Clumsy Lovers, a Canadian troupe ...