Mighty Mighty Bosstones lead singer Dicky Barrett was into the hard-core punk scene when he happened upon the band English Beat, opening for the Pretenders at the Boston Orpheum in the early ’80s. “I ...

Beyond little-known, yet infamous underground sub-genres of metal like pornogrind, unblack metal and pirate metal, there are even more bizarre amalgams of the Devil’s music. For this Loud List, we ...

Ska has changed so much since its conception in the late ’50s that it may be unrecognizable to the Jamaican folks who created it. Voodoo Glow Skulls call themselves ska, but let’s be honest here, ...

When we did our 2020 ska recap, I said that 2021 seemed poised to be an even bigger year for ska than 2020 was, and wow did that turn out to be an understatement. This year gave us three great new ...