Ska News

While the most of the nation "sprung ahead" one hour this weekend, St. Joseph County and other parts of Indiana remained on Eastern Standard Time.

In a time when ska is basically dead and punk bands such as Blink 182 and Green Day are growing up and developing social consciousness, the boys from Reel Big Fish are remaining true to their roots and staying ...

In the late '90s, ska bands were everywhere. Save Ferris, Reel Big Fish and the Dance Hall Crashers were some of the top underground bands of the time.

Publication Name: Gloucester County Times Publication Date: 1/1/05 Creator: Sandy Martin Headline: Byline: By Sandra Martin smartin@sjnewsco.com Story Body: In the beginning, there were restaurateurs ‹ ...

With its charming nickname of "America's Garbage Dump," the state of New Jersey has earned a demeaning reputation for its pristine mountains of garbage and the ever-present odor of refuse and desperation that ...

Megaforce Records will reissue VIO-LENCE's classic debut album, "Eternal Nightmare", on CD on June 28, 2005.

In "Alpha and Omega," a 30-minute program immediately following Friday night's Morally Improv-erished show at the Hangar Ballroom, he will ask the audience to suggest an item "trivial in nature." With help from ...

BY Bob Brewin Published on Mar. 28, 2005 More Related Links The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center near Honolulu issued a bulletin at 1:41 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today that an earthquake measuring 8.5 on the ...

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Purdue University will ban smoking on campus except in designated areas beginning next school year.

Moby has accepted the Council for University Programs' bid, making him the third and final performer for this year's Springfest concert, according to CUP members.

The San Diego City Council on March 14 approved Mayor Dick Murphy's seven appointments to the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration.

They have been nicknamed 'The Untouchables' because of the reign of fear they have imposed on Catholic working-class districts of Belfast during 10 years of the peace process.

This year's official onset of spring occurs at 7:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 20.

SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso and rhythm and blues, it was a precursor to rocksteady and what is now called reggae.

Long-term mortgage interest rates were up again Thursday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield fell to 4.47 percent.

Filing petitions by the deadline Tuesday for council were incumbent Jim Bryner, former councilman John McNeal and residents Kenneth Kitzmiller, Richard Pray and Brooks Gamble.

IT'S an unhappy irony that the word skinhead became synonymous with racism. What is now regarded a neo-Nazi uniform - shaven head, drain-pipe jeans, red dungarees and Doc Marten's - was once the dress code of a ...

How I came to be and a couple new sections I was a little undecided about where to take this column so I decided to go with what I know ...music. I'm going to run down what made me such a huge fan of music and ...

If Che Guevara's granny was indeed from Galway, as many claim, she would have happily headed north to knock back a sherry in Sandino's. For Latin America's revolutionaries are celebrated in both the decor and ...

The Rolling Stones aren't the only band to hit 40 years: The Skatalites will celebrate a similar milestone this month.

At least that's the misleading name, in part, of the music tour heading to Skrappy's Tuesday, March 8. The Ska Is Dead and You're Next Tour is bringing ska to Tucson to prove once and for all that ska is alive ...

PC-complainers won't silence Guttermouth Ying-Ying Lee Guttermouth with Planet Smashers and Ghosts of Modern Man The Starlite Room Saturday, 5 March at 7pm With a name like Guttermouth, you'd think people would ...

MADNESS are the latest music stars to sign up to perform outdoors in Suffolk this summer.

Bizzy Bone. He s been described as a drunk, a trouble-maker and even a schizophrenic.

Long-serving incumbents in Caseyville and St. Clair townships aren't accustomed to facing mobilized opposition when re-election rolls around every four years.

Nine years after the Congress lost power in Haryana, the party has come back with a record 67 seats in the 90-member assembly.

When ska was at the peak of its revival in the mid-90s, The O.C. Supertones were among many acts jumping on the, ahem, band-wagon. But as the fad fizzled and other bands went on to other things, the Supertones ...

If you go The women's conference is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at Hope Lutheran Church, 1301 Vintage Lane in Greece.

MONTY ALEXANDER with ERNEST RANGLIN: ROCKSTEADY. Veteran jazz pianist Monty Alexander has used several of his many albums to explore his Jamaican roots through a blend of jazz and reggae.

Desmond Dekker to Tour U.S. This much welcome news for old school ska-rocksteady fans on this side of the puddle.

All seven members of local ska band Big D and the Kids Table (singer Dave McWane, saxophonist Chris Bush, guitarist Sean Rogan, drummer Jon Reilly, bassist Steve Foote, trombonist Paul Cuttler and trumpeter Dan ...