BrooklynVegan is excited to present Touche Amore’s first headlining tour in support of 2020’s great Lament, which will be opened by Vein.fm and Dogleg on all dates, plus Thirdface on the first leg and ...

The Skatalites and The Temptations? What could the pioneering Jamaican band, whose ebullient ska music helped lay the foundation for reggae, have in common with the pioneering Motown vocal group, ...

Jamaican ska vets The Skatalites were initially briefly around in the '60s, they had a few reunions in the '70s, and they've been going strong since officially reforming in the '80s. The band -- who ...

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Watching an important and influential band perform live usually involves a degree of chin-stroking reverence, and perhaps more appreciation than actual enjoyment. There’s no danger of that with The ...

2021 marks the 57th anniversary of The Skatalites. Formed in 1964, the original members helped create the entire genre of ska, which evolved into rocksteady and reggae, and all of it' s derivatives.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band The Skatalites, died Thursday at ...

You might love the Skatalites without knowing who they are—the founders of ska, a kind of Jamaican jazz. They backed Bob Marley and Desmond Decker before they became the Skatalites. Born from mainly ...

On their website, The Skatalites — who deserve renown if only for their name — say the Jamaican band played for the first time in May 1964. Not a whole lot of musical units still around that broke in ...

How does a venerated Jamaican Jazz heritage artist like Monty Alexander, 67, whose performed and recorded with everyone from the Skatalites and Frank Sinatra to Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones stay… ...

Maybe she was late, maybe it was malice. As Marguerita Mahfood grabbed her sequinned dress and ran out of her flat, she left her boyfriend sleeping. She was “Rhumba Queen” of Jamaica, he was Don ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...