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@blowquality.comSep 23, 2026, 12:30 PM

Before anyone had a word for what it was, the sound was already changing everything. That's the ska story.

#ska #firstwaveska #hornsection #rocksteady #skarevival

SKA FACT. Bob Marley formed The Wailers in Trenchtown, Kingston in 1963 with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, years before "reggae" was even the word for it. Pick it up.
@blowquality.comSep 19, 2026, 3:08 PM

Major label deals meant something different in 1977. The money was real, the stakes were higher, and the music had to justify it.

#ska #twotone #firstwaveska #hornsection #punk

SKA FACT. The Clash signed to CBS Records for £100,000 in January 1977. Pick it up.
@blowquality.comSep 13, 2026, 1:50 PM

When a genre breaks through to a whole new audience, that's the moment it stops being underground. How many times has that happened for ska?

#ska #hornsection #firstwaveska #skarevival #pickitup

SKA FACT. Bob Marley and the Wailers played the Waikiki Shell on May 6, 1979, a show credited with exposing a mass Hawaiian audience to reggae. Pick it up.
@blowquality.comSep 7, 2026, 2:10 PM

One record changed everything. When Jamaica's sound reached number one in the UK, the whole world started listening to the island's rhythm.

#ska #firstwaveska #twotone #hornsection #skarevival

SKA FACT. Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" hit number one in the UK in 1969, the first Jamaican record to top that chart. Pick it up.