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 thing of legend? Yeah, well that’s kind of how the Supernova ...

The post Win Tickets to Supernova Ska Festival 2024 with The Selecter, Inspector, Roy Ellis appeared first on Consequence. Supernova Ska Festival 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the event, and they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Selecter perform in Pomona Saturday Night (Photo by Michelle Alvarez/Green-Eyed Blonde Photography) When I was a kid, I loved television, movies and music–not in that order. I lived and breathed ...

Among the many hot and hip young bands at this year's Coachella Festival, and also Chicago's Riot Fest, was a group that got its start 34 years ago, and hasn't toured North America in a decade. But ...

Ask most Americans what they think of ska music, and the reaction will likely land somewhere between a giggle and a dry-heave. Once the province of a young Bob Marley, and later of bands angry enough ...

The Selecter, led by Pauline Black and Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson took to the stage on Saturday night at the Brook to promote their new album, Subculture. Opening for the band was London-based ...

Ska music legends The Selecter have signed up as the headline act for this year's Reepham Festival. The band, fronted by original vocal duo Pauline Black and Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson, had a string of ...

Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: ...