This is my own top 10 pick of the greatest and most essential songs from the 2 Tone era. The single that kicked it all off, from the greatest ska band of them all. Written by visionary band leader ...

UK ska legends The Selecter join UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Damien Dempsey and The Beatles Dub Club for a show at the TUS ...

Many of those migrants ended up settling in industrial centers like Birmingham and Coventry, where they shared ska music with the locals. The Midlands was also home to 2 Tone Records, a short ...

Most of the 2-Tone bands (The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat etc) married Jamaican ska to punk attitude, The Selecter more than most. When Pauline calls herself “the living embodiment ...

Narrated by Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy, The Transplants), the series traces the roots of New York Hardcore, British 2-Tone Ska, and German Krautrock with conversations with the founders of ...

The combination of punk and ska defined the 2 Tone sound, while the social climate gave the bands a strong political and anti-racist attitude. According to Ali Wells, another curator on the show, the ...

The record is a snappy mix of punk, two-tone, ska, and power pop that address personal and the political. There is also a very cool Selena cover. To that end, Punknews' John Gentile spoke with the ...