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 ...

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 ...

Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, one of two lead singers for the great UK 2 Tone ska band the Selecter, has died. The band reported the news of Hendrickson's passing on Twitter last night. That announcement ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The Best Gig I Ever Saw was on a hot summer’s evening on June 22nd, 1978, at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire in the midlands of England. I had a ticket to see Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley & the Wailers ...

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 ...

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 ...