Fatter Than Albert and the Local Skank are ska and they’re not. “We definitely don’t stay within the ska scene,” says Local Skank member Melissa Crory. “We want to get our sound out there and see how other people interpret it.”

“Gypsy, reggae and punk meld together to make our sound,” says D-Ray of Fatter Than Albert. “Hunter (Miller, FTA’s guitarist) holds down the jazz influence, playing a lot of seventh chords to give it a sound atypical of the more poppy ska from the ’90s.”

“I also ...