The Suicide Machines

'Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing' looks at the mainstream booms of two horn-fueled genres. Ahead of its release, we're debuting a chapter that looks at the careers of Less Than Jake, The Suicide Machines, Blue Meanies, and Mustard Plug.

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 Bouncing Souls' big outdoor Asbury Park show returns Labor Day weekend with a stacked lineup...

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...

”Ska punk is truly 'a young person's game' if there ever was one,” Bryan says. ”That being said, since I made this mixtape a couple of days ago, I've probably listened to it ten times.”

”IT'S NOT ALL GONNA FIT ONTO THIS LIST... TEENAGE HALLOWEEN? CLASSICS OF LOVE?! THAT FUCKING GULCH RECORD?!?!?!?!?!!?”

A ton of good ska and ska-punk records came out in 2020. Here are 18 -- plus some non-album singles and honorable mentions -- that we highly recommend.

The best punk, hardcore, emo, etc that 2020 had to offer, from Jeff Rosenstock to Touche Amore to Soul Glo to Svalbard, and much, much more...

The LA punk band's list includes some of their Fat Wreck Chords labelmates, plus Run The Jewels, Hayley Williams, IDLES, and more...