2 Tone music was a blend of Jamaican reggae, ska, and British punk music ... The Specials topped the charts with two singles released in 1980 and 1981 They were the only band during the first ...

Nearly 40 years before the MeToo movement, Jerry Dammers' successor to two-tone ska group The Specials cut 'The Boiler', a single confronting sexual assault.

He was later acknowledged as "an elder statesman to the Two Tone ska revival movement of the punk era" (AllMusic). The 2-Tone era saw Aitken performing with the English Beat, touring with mod band ...

Noisey has posted the second part of their three part documentary series called Under the Influence. Narrated by Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy, The Transplants), the series traces the roots of ...

For most ska fans 1980 had to be the ... Britain was a bleak place back then, and the music that brightened those days were sounds of the great 2 Tone bands. It didn’t matter who you were ...

Fri Dec 20 - ENJOY YOURSELF is a fun ska dance party playing the original Jamaican First Wave Ska, Rock Steady and the UK Two-Tone scene. Advanced Tickets $10: https://skaskaska.eventbrite.ca ...

Ska had a pretty bright moment in the U.S. in the ’90s, when bands like No Doubt ... and particularly the post-2 Tone ska, but I wasn’t seeing much in the way of respect given to it at ...

The post Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Budgie on The Slits’ Cut, Two-Tone Ska, and John Bonham ... his first few experiences working with ska-adjacent music, including how he learned to play ...