Playing ska music is inherently problematic for two specific reasons. First of all, the typical skinny-tie-wearing, porkpie-hat-clad outfit has, on average, like, 10 members. It’s hard enough to ...

Though the band Less Than Jake has been around since 1992, I have honestly never listened to them. I think I wrote them off years ago, grouping them with emo-punk wannabe bands of the early 2000s, ...

Kerrang! writer John Longbottom dons his pork pie and checkered Vans and goes to bat for the most reviled genre in all of rock music. Poor lad… Is there any genre that immediately invokes as much ire ...

The crowd at the inaugural Back to the Beach (Credit: John Gilhooley) As Goldfinger played songs from its seven-album repertoire at last year’s inaugural Back to the Beach event, friends like Aaron ...

NJ ska-core band The Best of the Worst have been around for 14 years but they’ve only released one full-length during that time (2013’s Perspectives), alongside a series of EPs. That finally changes ...

ollege newspapers serve as a credibility soapbox, of sorts. Music critics the country over pen sprawling slobber-sessions on hyped, blogged-about, tight-pant-wearing bands who are mere months old. A ...

Who: Krusty Watch Guys with Dip Spit, Duderus and the Linus Method Where: Blind Bob's, 430 E. Fifth St., Dayton When: 9 p.m. Friday, June 24 Cost: $5 More info: 937-938-6405 or www.blindbobs.com ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

“This is a good Wednesday night. It could even be a good Thursday night,” said Alex Giguere of The Beatdown, surveying the crowd. Then he and his band tore into another number, and the night was on.

Ska never went away, but there’s more widespread interest for the genre right now than there has been in a while. Nostalgia tends to move in 20-ish year cycles and it’s been about two decades since ...