Volume five in a collection chronicling the career of the "Godfather of ska" Laurel Aitken, Rudi Got Married is made up of songs recorded in...

Germany's Senior All-Stars have called it quits, ending what has been a long and fruitful career. Dr. Ring Ding, aka Richie Jung, should con...

If I were writing this review based on the first two songs, I would be telling everyone that Root Fire by these Kingston (Ontario, not Jamai...

The Slackers seem to have taken a more serious tone on their fifth album, Close My Eyes. With a cover that features a crying woman facing aw...

Now this is what I had in mind when King Django put out his highly anticipated solo album, Reason, on Hellcat. Reason was a disappointment f...

Ever wonder what would happen if you took an influential band that played 30 years ago, let them listen to all the music that was born from...

It's a sad reflection on the state of the North American ska scene when a solid group like the Stingers ATX has to go all the way to Germany...

The Adjusters are one of many bands that I figured disappeared when the ska bubble burst, so I was genuinely surprised at the arrival of Oti...

After there was ska and before there was reggae, there was rocksteady and Red Bumb Ball puts together a collection of 22 top-notch selection...

The Farrelly brothers are the kings of dumb comedy, creating two of the stupidest movies of the '90s in Dumb and Dumber and There's Somethin...

Fishbone’s career, which began in the early ’80s and continues to this day, has taken them from a ska band, to a funk band, to a metal band...

I don’t know if it’s fair to judge a band on past success, but every Catch 22 album since Keasby Nights has left me vaguely disappointed. It...

Undergrads was the victim of its target audience: the show was wildly successful amongst (you guessed it) college undergrads, a group that w...

Danny DeVito loves black comedies, and Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, follows in the footsteps of his previous works, Thro...

As DMX has stated before, he's "not a nice person," he's also "not a good actor," but Cradle 2 the Grave, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Ex...

Every geek has different scenarios they play out in their mind and with their friends. The comic geek wonders who would win if the X-Men and...

The ’80s are back! A Sprite commercial, Vice City, synth-pop (okay, that was a year ago), and now in — ska? It would seem that way if the Al...

The Planet Smashers haven’t put out a weak album yet, and Mighty, their fifth, is a continuation of the band’s consistently solid library. F...

By far the most prolific band of ska's earliest days, the Skatalites (featuring surviving members Lloyd Brevett, Lloyd Knibb and Lester Ster...

Laid back — that’s the way to describe the new DHR7 album, and it’s the perfect medicine for a hot day when your clothes stick to your body...