Alton Ellis, the Godfather of Rocksteady music, was born in 1938 in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica. Along with his younger sister Hortense, who was born in 1941, the two created singles…
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Mille, a/k/a Millie Small, born in Clarendon, Jamaica, is the 1960s ska, bluebeat, and rocksteady singer who is most famous for her 1964 smash hit “My Boy Lollipop.” Her fourth recording,…
The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including Guns of Navarone.…
This is a classic music video from Madness, the English ska band from Camden Town, London. They started in 1976 as part of the late 1970s and early 1980s 2Tone ska…
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 3) Part 3 of 3 Soon after the mass defection Roddy Radiation left to pursue his more rock ‘n’ roll-oriented muse with The…
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 2) Part 2 of 3 And so was the Special A.K.A. Personnel stabilized with the addition of drummer John Bradbury, who’d co-written…
The 2 Tone Story: A Checkered Past (Part 1) Part 1 of 3 The Selecter’s Pauline Black perhaps put it best: “2 Tone was basically about black and white people…
