The Specials
Encore (Island Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Tag: two tone
The Skints
FM (Easy Star Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The English Beat
The English Beat , a division of the Two Tone Army, invades Firestone Live in Orlando, but it’s opening band Fishbone that emerges victorious.
The Beat goes on for ska icon Dave Wakeling
The English Beat refuses to die with the ’80s. Ink 19’s Robert M. Sutton chats with The Beat’s Dave Wakeling about the early days of the 2-Tone ska revival in England and the challenge of taking the past back into the future.
Punk 365
Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.
The Toasters
Ska pioneers, The Toasters, are still inspiring kids to skank 24 years into their career. Jen Cray attends a ska triple bill in Orlando and tells us how they manage to do it.
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