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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...