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Don Drummond & The Skatalites - Eastern Standard Time
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September 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Prince Buster - Madness
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January 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Major label deals meant something different in 1977. The money was real, the stakes were higher, and the music had to justify it.

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SKA FACT. The Clash signed to CBS Records for £100,000 in January 1977. Pick it up.
September 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Before anyone had a word for what it was, the sound was already changing everything. That's the ska story.

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SKA FACT. Bob Marley formed The Wailers in Trenchtown, Kingston in 1963 with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, years before "reggae" was even the word for it. Pick it up.
September 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Happy Rapture Day. If you're still here, stuck on this cursed planet where they're about to ban tylenol, you're going to need something to ease the (abundant) suffering.

Enjoy a feel-good song from The Maytals, first released in 1963 -- Never Grow Old.

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I'll Never Grow Old
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September 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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When a genre breaks through to a whole new audience, that's the moment it stops being underground. How many times has that happened for ska?

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SKA FACT. Bob Marley and the Wailers played the Waikiki Shell on May 6, 1979, a show credited with exposing a mass Hawaiian audience to reggae. Pick it up.
September 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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One record changed everything. When Jamaica's sound reached number one in the UK, the whole world started listening to the island's rhythm.

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SKA FACT. Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" hit number one in the UK in 1969, the first Jamaican record to top that chart. Pick it up.
September 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Dub was born when someone forgot to turn the vocals on. Honestly, best accident in studio history.

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SKA FACT. The first instrumental dub version happened by accident in 1968, when an engineer left the vocals off "On the Beach" by the Paragons. Pick it up.
August 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Jamaica's horn sections were doing this in the 1950s. The UK borrowed the blueprint a generation later. Ska was always infrastructure first, trend second.

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HORNS. Dekker's recording sessions often featured horn sections arranged in the jumping, syncopated ska style that predated the 2 Tone era by over a decade, demonstrating how deeply ska's two-beat rhythmic emphasis. swipe → and brass voicings were embedded in Jamaica's recording infrastructure before UK bands revived the sound in the late 1970s. Pick it up.
August 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Forgot to scream my head off into the void about this but HELL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! #Madness #FirstWaveSka #HouseOfBluesLasVegas
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM