Not many bands get the privilege of working alongside musicians and producers they love. The Toasters are one such band to have done so (creating record labels Moon Ska Records in the ’80s and ...

VAIL – There was a time in recent musical history when any rock band that incorporated a horn section into its repertoire was considered ska music. The Toasters’ frontman Rob (“Bucket”) Hingley has ...

After becoming immersed in the reggae and dub music explosion in the UK, Robert "Bucket" Hingley said he moved to New York in 1980 with high ambitions to meet other like-minded musicians to mingle ...

Supernova International Ska Festival returns September 15-17, 2023 to the historic Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, and today they’ve added four more bands to its lineup: The Suicide Machines, The ...

Following behind UK ska acts like the Specials, the Selecter and Madness, the Toasters helped usher the two-tone sound into the United States. The only remaining original Toasters member, Englishman ...

The All Music Guide calls the Toasters one of the most important American ska bands, one that helped bring the genre from the underground to a more prominent spot in pop culture through ...

The Toasters have been around for more than 25 years, making the band the longest-running ska outfit in North America. But ska is prone to some pretty severe ups and downs, in terms of popularity. It ...

. The band had been together since 1981 and are still going strong. The band's current tour will bring them to Somehow The Toasters made it through both the second and third waves of ska and are still ...

Ska kids and rude boys from throughout the Valley will definitely be skanking up a storm at this news: alt-rock station X103.9 and local promoter Jeremiah Gratza (a.k.a. President Gator) are bringing ...

For many people, ska died in the late ’90s, around the time it graced the opening credits of the Daisy Fuentes-hosted incarnation of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Fortunately, not everybody got the ...