Sad news: Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson of 2-Tone ska greats The Selecter died Tuesday at his home in Coventry, England where the band formed. He had been diagnosed with cancer last year. Word came from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Pauline Black OBE said Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson was "extraordinary" Pauline Black OBE has paid tribute to her bandmate from The Selecter, Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, who died of cancer at the age of ...

When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, ...

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 ...

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 ...