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The Hard Times is a gift to this world. Or at least, a gift for me, the target audience for their Onion-esque satires of music and music fandoms, particularly of the underground variety. For example: the site recently published a delightful package h...

You'd be forgiven if you weren't aware of the burgeoning "hyperpop" movement, a sort-of maximalist, meta-ironically post-postmodern clown pastiche of pop music. Like Gen Zers shooting their veins full of nihilistic Dada humor, and then accidentally i...

About a year ago, Dicky Barrett — then lead singer of the legendary ska band, the mighty mighty Bosstones — coproduced an anti-vax musical anthem with professional anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy, Jr. Several days later, the Bosstones abruptly announ...

The best ever ska-punk band out of Denton, the Holophonics, has spent the last few years cranking out some skanky cover albums, in addition to their own original fare. In 2017, they did a whole album of video game theme songs; four years later, the b...

Two Tone is an upcoming six-part BBC drama from Steven Knight, one of the creators behind Peaky Blinders. The show will focus on an extended family and four young people who get involved in the two-tone ska scene in Coventry and Birmingham in the lat...

As your resident ska guy and your resident Mountain Goats guy, I am genuinely surprised that I have heard (nor, surprisingly, performed!) a ska cover of a Goats tune. But if Twitter is going to apartheid emerald mine hell, then at least it gave us on...

Over the weekend of January 23, 2022, the son of the late Senator Bobby Kennedy organized and lead a series of anti-vaccine marches across the country through his conspicuously named "Children's Health Defense" organization. To promote the event, Rob...