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Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Kendrick Lamar, Rock The Bells, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Summer Walker, Beach Bunny, and more.

Plus: Wet Leg, Dr. Acula, Viagra Boys / Shame, Pride Island, Converge, and more tour and festival news.

Mustard Plug are in the midst of celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they just announced a tour with Catbite surrounding This Is Not Croydon Fest. Also, Catbite's Bad Time Records labelmates Dissidente have a new hardcore punk ripper...

Today's NYC-area shows include Lindsey Buckingham, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Lord Huron, Move Forward Fest, Wild Pink, Ratboys, and more

With ska gaining mainstream traction in the U.S. once again, we put together a list of 64 essential ska albums from 1964 to present, with albums released during each of the past seven decades by artists from all over the world.

Philly ska band Catbite's anticipated sophomore album 'Nice One' comes out in August via Bad Time Records (pre-order our cyan blue vinyl variant) and they're playing some shows with some awesome lineups...

The narrative that ska comes and goes in ways in damaging to the genre, and not even all that accurate. Marc Wasserman's new oral history 'Ska Boom!' looks at the American ska scene of the 1980s, and the bands that bridged the gap between 2 Tone and the third wave...

The 9-hour, 181-song playlist includes songs from all across ska's long, rich history -- from its origins in Jamaica to some of today's best DIY ska bands -- and it also includes ska-adjacent songs by The Beatles, Vampire Weekend, Weezer, Pixies, and more...

Cassette Store Day, the annual celebration of tapes and tape culture, holds its 2019 edition on October 12.

Plus: Geto Boys, This Is Hardcore, and more tour-related news.