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 ...

Any artist will tell you that a great career is full of success, regret and comebacks. Then again, it’s not really a comeback if you’ve never left. These days, bands that were once the talk of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a legendary, platinum-selling Two Tone band, The Selecter doesn’t really et the attention it deserves. The British ska-revival band formed in the late ‘70s and released a number of really great ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soon after Pauline Black joined the Selecter in 1979 to complete the band’s original lineup the band from Coventry, England, scored a hit with its debut single, “On My Radio,” and found itself part of ...

There’s a scene in Alex Cox’s 1986 film Sid & Nancy that foreshadows the end for the star-crossed punk lovers: One of their cohorts shows up in a trilby hat, shiny tonic suit, and skinny tie, having ...