Got your ticket yet to the 2025 WFUV High Line Bash at City Winery at Pier 57 on April 30? If so, along with Jade Bird and Fantastic Cat, you're going to see one of Britain's most beloved and ...

The Bear has included Pearl Jam songs in the past, using the 1993 song “Animal” and the 2006 song “Come Back.” The Bear has featured a great soundtrack over the last two seasons, with artists like ...

When the English Beat emerged in the late ’70s, the UK group fused punk rock brashness with old-school Jamaican ska beats. The results were striking and the band delivered hits “Mirror in the Bathroom ...

Beginning in the late ’70s, The English Beat made ska music what it is today: energetic and fun.Not quite reggae, not quite straight pop, ska embodies a rhythm and consequence all it’s own. Dave ...

Born out of the two-tone British ska scene that gave the world the Specials and Madness, the English Beat helped infuse radio waves with manic, urgent songs about being young in the early 1980s. The ...

On the first of two sold-out nights at Belly Up, The English Beat’s Dave Wakeling invited the crowd to forget the worries of the world for a while. It took all of one song to open those gates. As the ...

Sometime around 1978, revelation struck in Birmingham. During that period, Dave Wakeling, Andy Cox and David Steele had a nascent, nameless band in their U.K. hometown. As active participants in their ...

Dave Wakeling, lead singer of The English Beat ­­­— who play SOhO Restaurant & Music Club this Saturday, June 4 — is in speech as he is in music: thoughtful, smart, and ahead of his time. In the ...

The English Beat at Belly Up. (Photo by Donovan Roche/Special for Times of San Diego) On the first of two sold-out nights at Belly Up, The English Beat’s Dave Wakeling invited the crowd to forget the ...