The BBC has commissioned a six-part drama about the UK’s ska and two-tone music scene, which hails from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Two Tone (working title) will tell the story of an ...

You never know what you might find when you listen to a cross-section of Colorado music, because the state has so many flavors to sample – and this week’s lineup is no exception. There’s a two-tone ...

As if Orange County didn’t get enough of ska at this past weekend’s Back to the Beach Festival, the next few months could be considered the Summer of Ska. At least, that’s what Cameron Hallenbeck and ...

The six-part series will be set in the ska scene in Knight's hometown of Birmingham. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Two Two (working title) is set to tell the story of an extended family and four ...

The post Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Budgie on The Slits’ Cut, Two-Tone Ska, and John Bonham: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Budgie discusses the recording of Cut and what it was like to drum ...

It’s a chilly night in early November, but the crowd of kids gathered outside 910 Live in Tempe is feeling plenty warm. It isn’t surprising, given that they’ve spent most of the past hour skanking up ...

Two-tone ska, one of Great Britain’s most influential musical eras, arrived on the heels of Margaret Thatcher-era mass unemployment and ongoing racism following decades of immigration from the West ...

40 years ago a new, fresh sound exploded out of the UK music scene which is still fervently loved today.... Ska was born! This second article looks at the history of ska, especially Two Tone, and how ...

Playing all the two-tone classics from Madness, The Specials, Bad Manners and The Beat, as well as slipping in a few banging ska tunes of our own, we have an infectious energy in our live performances ...