the specials

The Specials have released "Vote For Me," the lead single for their recently announced comeback album Encore. The track finds the U.K. ska band in…

U.K. ska-punk pioneers the Specials have announced a new album featuring the first original music from the band in over twenty years. Titled Encore, the album marks…

John Bradbury, drummer for U.K. ska-punk pioneers the Specials and the Specials AKA, has died, Brooklyn Vegan reports. He was 62. An official statement…

Boy, oh boy, did the Specials get their skank on at Coachella Friday afternoon.

There's a scene in Alex Cox's 1986 film Sid & Nancy that foreshadows the end for the star-crossed punk lovers: One of their cohorts shows…