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 ...

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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 ...

In a series of columns I have proposed to old and new artists the idea of a digital tip jar . Most gave it a thumbs up. The concept is simple, an additional, direct-to-artist means by which fans ...

It’s a big year for 2-Tone. Back in February, we got the first album from The Specials in 37 years, in addition to news of a full US tour. Now, another legendary ska-punk band, The Selecter, have ...

Frontwoman Pauline Black has become an iconic figure in her own right, a polymath, awarded an OBE last year for services to music. The Selecter remain at the centre of what she does, alongside ...

I was probably the first rude girl. At our debut gig, in Worcester, I’d worn pink spandex, and the whole band looked appalling, so we were hauled off to Oxfam by the wife of founder member Neol Davies ...

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 British band The Selecter began singing about race, gender and politics in the late 1970s. They were part of a musical moment that came to be known as 2-tone, which combined elements of early ...

With 2 Tone, as the name suggests, virtually everything was black and white. The bands were multiracial -- white kids and second-generation West Indians rallying around vintage Jamaican music -- and ...

The Selecter‘s Pauline Black has pledged to continue Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson’s legacy by fighting against racism and sexism. Hendrickson passed away last month at the age of 73. His death was ...

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 ...