Is this ska’s next big band?

The Interrupters release limited edition Fight The Good Fight bundle including a clear vinyl pressing and FTGT tour t-shirt.

This is the Interrupters third and most successful album to date. The single She’s Kerosene has been featured on YouTube’s Artist on the Rise. The song is also tracking on billboard with radio airplay.

Now in 2018, radio airplay is far from a given when you are a ska band. Three albums in, The Interrupters have got to be commended for slogging along in the less than mainstream music genre. Hence the name of album number 3.

With She’s Kerosene seeing some movement on the charts, could this be the beginning of a ska revival of sorts?

Of course the answer is who gives a crap.

Ska has always been a left of centre genre with groups like The Specials, The English Beat, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Sublime and, perhaps the most successful of them all, No Doubt, carrying the touch set by Jamaican originator Prince Buster.

You don’t start a ska band to get rich. You start a ska band because you love the music. The staccato rhythm. The conscious lyrics. Or maybe you just really look good in a pork pie hat.

You start a ska band because something happened inside you when you first heard Gangsters and you needed to spread the word.

The Interrupters are the ska band of the moment. Backed by west coast punk rock royalty. Rancid’s Tim Armstrong signed the band to his Hellcat Records in 2014 and has produced all three of their albums. And Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong gave them a riff which became Broken World on FTGF.

The Interrupters are currently on tour. You can find info here. And I’ll add that few things are as much fun with your clothes on as a ska concert.

For the limited edition Fight The Good Fight bundle along with the rest of the band’s music and swag click wearetheinterrupters.com.