Fri Dec 20 - 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, ...

But led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Dave Wakeling, the English Beat managed to conjure up that perfect, delicate balance of ska and contagious pop. They made only three albums, and by 1983 they ...

From Jamaica's inner cities to MTV, dance-hall music, once relegated to ethnic and specialized markets, has gained worldwide popularity in the past decade. Thanks to his hit single "Gimme the Light" ...

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, ...

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...

IT’S rare to hear Jamaican artistes doing ska, the sound that announced the birth of their country’s music movement over 60 years ago. Singers Hopeton Lindo and Peter G show their love for ska and ...

NORTH ADAMS — The Grooove Café, a teen-led performance series, is sponsoring a ska dance party, "Skank Your Heart Out," at Mass MoCA tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m. It is featuring Four Ways to the Weekend ...

The Big Takeover heats up its classic reggae and ska stylings with a horn-powered Motown bounce and pop verve straight from the 1960s and ’70s. If you’re the kind of traveler who always packs some ...