Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: teenagers throw a rager house party that explodes wildly to become a ...

When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, ...

Poly Styrene was born Marie Joan Elliot-Said in 1957 and went on to become front woman of X-Ray Spex. When Pauline Black ...

The Selecter were a British ska revival band from Coventry, formed in the late 1970s as one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. Much of what set apart The Selecter from many of the ...

During the turbulent late ’70s in England, in the West Midlands postwar industrial town of Coventry, the second wave of ska exploded onto the scene like Motown did in ’60s Detroit. Six local bands ...

SKA legends The Selecter hit the south as part of a 22-date UK tour celebrating five years since their reunion and the release of their new album Subculture. They visit Salisbury City Hall on February ...

Riven by racism, strife and unemployment, the England of the late ’70s and early ’80s was a very different place to now. Or, at least, we like to think it was. Growing up in Coventry, a once-proud ...

Along with fellow English Midlands ska bands The Beat and The Specials, The Selecter emerged into a highly-charged political climate of high unemployment and civil unrest at the tail end of the 1970s.

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