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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For British singer Matthew Murphy, honoring his musical influences and honoring his late father are one and the same. Murphy, 37, who performs as Ranking Jnr and Mini-Murphy, hails from Birmingham, ...

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 ...

Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

Fri Feb 6 - ENJOY YOURSELF is a fun ska dance party playing the original Jamaican First Wave Ska / Rock Steady and the UK Two-Tone scene. We spin great artists such as The Specials, English Beat, ...