The Skatalites

'Ska Boom!' book highlights U.S. ska in between 2 Tone & 3rd wave - Q&A w/ author Marc Wasserman

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…

Q&A w/ Bad Operation on their debut album and the joyous retaliation of New Tone ska

Bad Operation — the new ska band with members of Fatter Than Albert, PEARS, and more — tell the story of how this band came to be, the meaning behind their ”New Tone” ska label this band’s specific influences, and more…

Halloween livestreams - a guide to the spooky virtual concerts you can watch this weekend

Teenage Halloween, GWAR, Code Orange, Mr. Bungle, The Fest, The Distillers, Puscifer, Nothing/Full of Hell, Rolling Loud, The Wonder Years (as blink-182), The Skatalites, World/Inferno, Rocky Horror, Grateful Dead, and much more…

This Week's Livestreams (Elton John, GWAR, Mr. Bungle, Grateful Dead, Phish, more)

Plus Jason Isbell, Bright Eyes, Kathleen Hanna, Angel Olsen, Animal Collective, Puscifer, The Lemonheads, H.E.R., Bartees Strange, Japanese Breakfast, Phoebe Bridgers, Nothing, Teenage Halloween, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

An excerpt on Jeff Rosenstock's band ASOB from new ska book + Q&A with author Aaron Carnes

Musician and journalist Aaron Carnes (Flat Planet, Gnarboots) is releasing his book ‘In Defense of Ska’ in 2021. Ahead of that, we’re debuting the ‘Ska Is Dead’ chapter which focuses on Jeff Rosenstock’s band Arrogant Sons of Bitches, and we spoke to Aaron about his book and about why ska needs defending…

Record Store Day announces 2020 exclusives (full list)

Record Store Day 2020 in April 18 and they’ve just announced the list of exclusive titles that will be available at independent records stores that day…

Punk Rock Bowling afterparties: Hepcat, Television, Doom, The Business, The English Beat, more

The Unseen, Guttermouth, The Bombpops, Ceremony, Dr Know, Andrew WK, Har Mar Superstar and more are also playing Punk Rock Bowling afterparties.

Cassette Store Day 2019: full list of exclusive titles

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

Muddy Roots Festival 2019 full lineup (AVAIL, Eyehategod, GZA, much more)

The Tennessee festival also includes MC50, The Damned, Cock Sparrer, Orange Goblin, Face To Face, OFF!, Fear, The Adicts, Fishbone, The Dwarves, The Queers, The Obsessed, Weedeater, and more.

Warped Tour 2019 lineup (Jawbreaker, blink-182, Bad Religion, Quicksand, Glassjaw, Offspring, more)

Warped Tour’s 25th anniversary lineups are definitely a lot more ”classic” Warped Tour than the fest had been in years…
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