Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 21—Don't call Mephiskapheles ska-punk. The band, headlining eSKApe at Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton on Sunday, April 23, brings ...

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this composer, this trombonist, this conductor, this arranger, this director—we ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell ...

A cross-curricular music resource celebrating the contribution of black artists and composers to British music. This video ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

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 ...