Denver ska-punk veterans Five Iron Frenzy put out a new song on last year’s Ska Against Racism, and then they began crowd-funding their first album in seven years, which is called Until This Shakes ...

Omnigone, the current band of Link 80‘s Adam Davis and Barry Krippene, released one of the best ska-punk albums in recent memory with their 2019 debut LP No Faith (and followed that in 2020 with a ...

Ska fans should break out their checkerboard Vans and pork pie hats, as Philadelphia ska-punk quartet Catbite is headlining a two-stop, mini tour next month with a popular YouTube cover artist.

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

A lot has changed since Florida-based rockers Less Than Jake rode the third wave of ska to stardom in the 1990s. Frontman Chris DeMakes said some of those changes are surprising to fans of the band’s ...

A new generation of ska-punk bands has a message for you, Rudy, and it’s all about unity. Embracing the 80s British ska scene’s politically charged idealism while taking musical inspiration from 90s ...

An iconic ska punk band from the 1990s is working on its first new album in almost 30 years. Sublime is recording new music with Jakob Nowell, the son of late singer and founding member Bradley Nowell ...

Ska-punk, the sunny and uptempo and relentlessly cheery mutation of early-'60s Jamaican dance music that took over alt-rock radio sometime in the mid-'90s, is not considered remotely cool these days.

Brewstomper Golden Ale is a new beer with a backstory. It’s a collaboration between punk band Rancid of California and Ska Brewing of Colorado, but it’s set to debut here. And here means Phoenix’s ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...