Please send us any links to bands that are not yet on this list and should be. You can email links to buster at ska4u dot com and we’ll add ska bands. They can be original Jamaica ska, two-tone, third wave, punky ska, fourth wave, or your mama’s wave, as long as they play some ska. There is no chronological order here, or any order for that matter, other than that I’m trying to make sure all these are working links to good ska music and band info. Please link back to us and show your love for ska. Enjoy.
The Skatalites – Jamaica
The Specials – UK
Toots and the Maytals – Jamaica
The UpTones – California, USA
The Communicators – UK
The Pepper Pots – Spain
Hepcat – California, USA
Arthur Kay and The Originals
Coup De Ska – California, USA
StereoHype – Mississippi
The Best Of The Worst – New Jersey, USA
A Billion Ernies – Germany
Deskarats – Catalonia, Spain
Buford O’Sullivan
50:50 Shot – Georgia, USA
Half Past Two – Orange County, CA, USA
The Refinements- UK
Out of Nothing – Florida, USA
Chilled Monkey Brains – Florida, USA
The Long Johns – Florida, USA
The Aggrolites – California, USA
The Delegators – UK
The Selecter – UK
Bad Manners – UK
Skaville- UK – UK
Upstanding Youth – Hawaii, USA
The Big – UK
Brixton Robbers – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Bigger Thomas – New York, USA
2 Tone Lizard Kings – Arizona, USA
Poor AJ – California, USA
Canon Law – Broken up March 27th 2009
Fishbone – California, USA
Last Martyrs Of A Lost Cause – Pennsylvania, USA
Westbound Train – Massachusetts, USA
Unmotivated – Florida, USA
Sexto Sol – Germany
Self Made Men – California, USA
Taut To A Bay – Florida, USA
The Slackers – New York, USA
The Associated – California, USA
Franco Nero – California, USA
Midriff Winona, MN, USA
Sonic Boom Six – UK
The Special Guests – Germany
Grim Luck – California, USA
The Wailers – Jamaica
Warsaw -Arizona, USA
Upright Dub Orchestra – Oregon, USA
Victor Rice – Brazil
Bouncing Souls – New Jersey, USA
Prince Buster – Orange Street, Jamaica
Rancid – California, USA
Bill Skasby California, USA
Voodoo Glow Skulls – California, USA
Breag -Ireland
Agent Deadlies – California, USA
Airwave bandits – Minnesota, USA
Skafield -Germany
Dannys House – California, USA
Big D & the Kids Table -Massachusetts, USA
Barrington Levy – UK
The Pedal-Tones – California, USA
The Toasters -New York, USA
The Grown-Ups -Texas, USA
Spring Heeled Jack -New Haven, CT, USA
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – Japan
Monkey – California, USA
Bomb the Music Industry! -New York, USA
Buck-O-Nine – California, USA
Chris Murray – California, USA
Against All Authority Florida, USA
The Allentons – California, USA
Animales Deskarados – California, USA
Bim Skala Bim -Massachesetts, USA
Critical Mass – California, USA
Blue Meanies – Illinois, USA
Flip The Switch – California, USA
The Bodysnatchers – UK
The Busters – Germany
Byron Lee & the Dragonaires – Jamaica
The Aquabats – California, USA
Califfo De Luxe – Italy
Cambridge -Canada
Capdown – UK
Ruckus – Massachusetts, USA
Catch 22 – New Jersey, USA
Chase Long Beach – California, USA
Chicken poodle Soup – Minnesota, USA
Choking Victim – New York ,USA
Citizen Fish – UK
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd – Jamaica
Common Rider – California, USA
Dance Hall Crashers – California, USA
Deal’s Gone Bad – California, USA
The Debonaires – California, USA
Derrick Morgan – Jamaica
Desmond Dekker – Jamaica
Don Drummond – Jamaica
The Donkey Show – California, USA
Dread I Dread -Minnesota, USA
Duke Reid – Jamaica
Left Alone – California, USA
Eastern Standard Time – Washington DC, USA
The English Beat – UK
Dave Wakeling – California, USA
Eric “Monty” Morris – Jamaica
Ernest Ranglin – Jamaica
The Ethiopians – Jamaica
The Expendables – California, USA
The Fabulous Rudies – California, USA
Fandangle – UK
Five Iron Frenzy – Colorado, USA
The Flatliners Canada
The Forces of Evil – California, USA
FTB – California, USA
Los Furios – Canada
General Rudie – Canada
The Georgetown Orbits – Washington, USA
Ghetto Empire – California, USA
Go Jimmy Go -Hawaii, USA
Goldfinger – California, USA
Green Room Rockers -Indiana, USA
Gylbots – Minnesota, USA
Half The Fight – Indiana, USA
High School Football Heroes – New York, USA
The Hippos – California, USA
The Hoodwinks – Canada
Hub City Stompers – New Jersey, USA
I Voted for Kodos – Wisconsin, USA
Ill Scarlett – Canada
The Insyderz – Michigan, USA
Jackie Opel – Jamaica
Jeffries Fan Club – California, USA
Johnny’s Gone Mad and the Rollercoasters – California, USA
Johnny Socko – Indiana, USA
The Johnstones – Canada
Junior Reid – Jamaica
Justifi – California, USA
Justin Hinds – Jamaica
Kemuri – Japan
The Kiltlifters – Canada
King Django – New York, USA
The Kingpins – Canada
The Know How – Florida, USA
Kortatu – Spain
La Severa Matacera – California, USA
Laurel Aitken – Jamaica
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Jamaica
Leftöver Crack – New York, USA
Less than Jake – Florida, USA
Let’s Go Bowling – California, USA
Link 80 – California, USA
Long Beach Shortbus – California, USA
Lord Tanamo – Jamaica
Los Hooligans – California, USA
Los Vicios De Papa – Illinois, USA
Mad Bomber Society – Canada
Mad Caddies – California, USA
Madness – UK
Maldita Vecindad – Mexico City, Mexico
The Melodians – Jamaica
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones -Massachusetts, USA
Mikey Talented – Minnesota, USA
Millie Small – Jamaica
Monty’s Fan Club – Rhode Island, USA
Moving to Pluto – Minnesota, USA
Mu330 – Missouri, USA
Mustard Plug – Michigan, USA
Natalie Wouldn’t – New York, USA
New York Ska Jazz Ensemble -New York, USA
The Next Best Thing – Canada
No Doubt – California
No. 1 Station – UK
The O.C. Supertones – California, USA
One Drop – California, USA
Operation Ivy – California, USA
Oreskaband – Japan
The P. Lacquers – Minnesota
Panteon Rococo – Mexico
The Paragons – Jamaica
Patent Pending – New York, USA
The Peacocks – UK
The Pietasters – Washington DC, USA
The Pinstripes – Ohio, USA
The Pioneers – Jamaica
The Planet Smashers – Canada
The Porkers – Australia
Potshot – Japan
Rally Vincent (Super Hiatus) – Virginia, USA
RC Dub – Nebraska, USA
The Real Deal – Canada
Reel Big Fish – California, USA
Rico Rodriguez – Jamaica
Rocksteady Breakfast – Minnesota, USA
Ruder Than You – Pennsylvania, USA
The Rudimentals – South Africa
Sajak – Minnesota, USA
Save Ferris – California, USA
The Scofflaws – New York
Second Hand Ska Kings – Minnesota, USA
SGR – Pennsylvania, USA
Skalaticians – Minnesota, USA
Ska-P – Spain
Skalariak – Spain
Skamikaze – alifornia, USA
Skankin’ Pickle – California, USA
The Skatomatics – Canada
Slapstick (band) – Illinois, USA
Slightly Stoopid – California, USA
The Soul Captives – California, USA
Spunge – UK
Streetlight Manifesto – New Jersey, USA
Stupid Flanders – California, USA
SubCity Dwellers – Canada
Sublime – California, USA
Suburban Legends – California, USA
The Suicide Machines – Michigan, USA
The Suppressors – California, USA
Symarip – UK
Tequila And The Sunrise Gang – Germany
3 Minute Hero – Minnesota, USA
Tijuana No! – Mexico
Tommy McCook – Jamaica
Treephort – Georgia, USA
2 Tone Runts – Minnesota, USA
The Wedgewoods – Canada
