Junior Murvin

For a moment it still seems like 1996 on Leonard Street in front of the grungy Knitting Factory club in New York City. Legions of teenaged ska kids loiter in front of the TriBeCa institution, dressed in their two-tone uniforms of stylish rebellion: black-and-white checkered ties, pork pie hats, and suspenders dotted with pins declaring their allegiance to mid-'90s bands like the Slackers and Reel Big Fish. They're here for Three Floors of Ska, a semi-annual event that attracts a 600-strong crowd primarily from the suburbs in Long Island and New Jersey, featuring ten bands and DJs playing the Knitting Factory's three stages. Read More

It might be grammatically incorrect in literal terms to call a triple album a thing of two halves, but that's what The Clash produced in 1980. Read More