The Global Ska Music Community

Welcome to SkaScene.com! This is the online, global community for everything ska! Learn about ska culture, style, music, history, and discover new and exciting bands and artists!

Ska is feel good music that originated in Jamaica in the 1950s. It's popularity spread worldwide since then and remains a popular uplifting style of music. It is hypnotic at regular, off-beat intervals. Although a variety of scales and emotions can be conveyed, the feel-good uplifting styles are most popular.

We will soon update the website to include links to local ska scene websites. Check out our history section which describes the history of ska music and culture. If your wanting to have some fun on the guitar or the dance floor you can learn to how to have some fun here. This website is for the community, by the community---the fans and artists.

Start listening or find ska bands now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latest Community News

December 16th 2009 - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones has released a new record.
They are offering a free download at their website
here. The new record has been highly praised and features some of the best new ska songs in the past 5 years.

Featured Artist

The Slackers - The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The band's upcoming record "The Great Rocksteady Swindle" will be released in 2010. This isn't no ska punk! Head over to their myspace page for a preview of their music. It's definitely worth it!