A ska band from middle-northern-central-western America. Sometimes they play music. Other times, they hax teh internets.

A ska band from middle-northern-central-western America. Sometimes they play music. Other times, they hax teh internets.

Ska starts in Jamaica in the late 1950s and from there a lot of ska is misinterpreted. Ska was a popular sound in dancehalls and is Jamaicans first very own style of music. The bands and fans originally and for the most part idolized al Capone style gangsters and dressed the like; this is where the signature rude boy suit came from. The term rude boy was a term that the islanders called the ruffians associate with ska and is what they called each other out of prestige associate with gangsters once again.
The name "ska" came from the sound the guitar makes. The music its self is a blend of calypso, R&B, jazz and other more Americanized music, but with a Jamaican spin. Generally ska includes up strokes on the guitar, island style bass lines, drums using mostly toms and symbols, trumpet, trombone, keyboards and saxophones are also associated with ska. But the upstrokes are the most important part. Ska was a very big hit in Jamaica and from it came rock steady, dancehall, and reggae.
From Jamaica ska made its way to Europe, mainly the UK and was changed slightly to something more commonly called "two tone ska" the two-tone ska movement was named for the overwhelming unity between blacks and whites within the scene at the time. The music got fairly faster and more poppy. A number of the bands incorporated horns less often, or used very simple melodies for the horns. Ska was most popular among the pre-racist skinheads, mods, and rudies(rude boy) sub cultures. Though for such ...

Personally, 3rd wave ska is the best. It's like punk music played by high school band geeks.

A good 3rd wave ska band is Reel Big Fish

Ska started in Jamaica in the 1950s. The Jamaican people usually listened American radio and records, but when we switched to rock n roll, they couldn't stand it. They needed their own music. Also, Jamaica had just gained independence from Britain. Their president called for a type of music that was truly Jamaican, not a copy of British music. Thus, ska was born as a blend of every rhythmic style of music found at the time. Ska gets its name from the morning greeting of the man who really started the music. Every day he yelled "Happy skavoovee" to people, and so the music was called "ska." The original dancing was simply "the ska" and was just the people of Kingston moving to the beat. Some well known artists of this type of ska are Desmond Dekker and the Aces, The Skatalites, Peter Tosh, Toots and the Maytals, Prince Buster, and Bob Marley. In Jamaica, a very slow form of ska developed into rocksteady. Rocksteady developed into reggae. It is a popular misconception that ska came from reggae. The Jamaicans who made ska were hoodlums. They were "the guys your mother warned you about" like Fonzie. They're sort of Jamaican punks. The Jamaican slang for "cool" was "rude." Thus, these guys were called "rude boys."

In the 1960s, Jamaican music, mainly ska, became popular in the UK as well as the world. It was Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" that turned the world onto ska. Mods and skinheads were prominant in the ska scene. Remember that skinheads were not Nazis; it was a fas...

1.Really great ska band holding potential legends. Matt Freeman on the bass, him and Tim Armstrong moved onto Rancid. When Rancid took a break Tim started the Transplants with Skinhead Rob and Travis Barker (finally left that one gay band). Matt Freeman is temporarily touring with Social Distortion in which the singer of Rancid shows up at most the shows.

2.Nuclear bomb testing

A funk/ska/hip-hopesque band hailing from Ashville,NC. The Booty band have devoloped a style called "Bounce," Which of course is exactly what one is compelled to do when you hear their funky ass muzik. Broke out into the "jamband" scene at Wakarusa 2006 where they rocked the fucking house two nights in a row. Disclaimer; One of their groupies was wearing a white dress and white panties the first night at Wakarusa and was jumping up and down and she was on the fucking RAG! Now Thats Phunky!!! And then the next night the band got half naked and she was running around stage in her undies!!! Schtoops! Nevertheless, they are a killer band, Check 'em out...I mean just think of the band's name for god's sake...Genius dare I say