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We select five essential albums from throughout the history of ska music, including classic released by The Specials, The Beat, Jimmy Cliff and Operation Ivy.

Booklist Online Book Review: Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation. <ParaStyle:ByStar

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight goes back to the 1980s of his adolescence in his new series This Town, inspired by the rise of the 2Tone music genre.

The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son

2-Tone: The Sound of Coventry: The story of the record label. 2-Tone: The Sound of Coventry airs on BBC Four HD at 11:55 PM, Friday 29 March. The story of the record label

BBC's This Town, a six-part drama by Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight, starring Michelle Dockery and Nicholas Pinnock, pays tribute to one of Britain’s most remarkable musical movements

Some FEATURED ARTISTS on this week’s Stronger Than Dirt (Saturday, January 13, 8-10pm) include Pete Miller, Paul St. John, Cherry Vanilla, The Jolt,

Rachels exploration into Jerry Dammerss 2 Tone label explains how punk reggae evolved to become the “soundtrack of a generation”

The best boxed sets of 2023 include the Replacements, the Who, Bob Dylan, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Jason Isbell and Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach.