The British band The Selecter began singing about race, gender and politics in the late 1970s. They were part of a musical moment that came to be known as 2-tone, which combined elements of early ...

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 ...

In the early autumn of 1979, an offbeat, infectious and highly-energetic song could be regularly heard over the English airwaves. With its driving, Motown-style backbeat, choppy guitar, chunky Hammond ...

The Selecter’s Pauline Black to receive Outstanding Contribution to Music Award - The singer, 72, is best known as the frontwoman of the band The Selecter, putting her at the forefront of the 2 Tone ...

Sad news: Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson of 2-Tone ska greats The Selecter died Tuesday at his home in Coventry, England where the band formed. He had been diagnosed with cancer last year. Word came from ...

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, ...

Pauline Black and Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson of The Selecter (Credit: Dean Chalkley) It’s 2018, and we still love the Royals. We lose our minds over them, almost as if they were born on Main Street USA ...

Pauline Black isn’t known as the “Queen of Ska” for nothing. She earned that title. Right there at the forefront of Britain’s late ’70s obsession with the genre, Black has guided The Selecter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the release of debut album "Too Much Pressure" by Coventry band The Selecter, who toured ...

I was probably the first rude girl. At our debut gig, in Worcester, I’d worn pink spandex, and the whole band looked appalling, so we were hauled off to Oxfam by the wife of founder member Neol Davies ...

In a series of columns I have proposed to old and new artists the idea of a digital tip jar . Most gave it a thumbs up. The concept is simple, an additional, direct-to-artist means by which fans ...

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the release of debut album "Too Much Pressure" by Coventry band The Selecter, who toured with The Specials and Madness in 1979 as 2-Tone ska swept the nation ...