Now updated after a stroll down memory lane with rude boy Chris Wilke.
My recent music postings have been about alt-country and so as to not betray my main interest in punk, here's a very accessible, but "old" LA ska punk band who almost made it enormous and who deserve a shout-out. Monique is re-emerging but the old stuff is super-good. Click through images to some keen tunes but realize the entire albums are worthy. "Save Ferris" has two main Ska punk/pop punk albums until a recent Ska release, "Checkered Past" - funded by crowd funding solved in ~10 days. Her disenfranchised bandmates make tunes under Starpool - almost straight SKA even now. All Orange County CA.
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The Mighty Might Bosstones made few hits - just great music. Here are a couple from one of the originators of 3rd wave punk ska. Boston.
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Reel Big Fish (love the name) are prolific, very good and still touring. Like the rest in the genre, there weren't many hits, just good vibes and scads of output over decades... 90s being the best. I even added an Ahas cover. Check your sensitivity and PCedness at the door here. Check these... again from Orange Co.
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Less Than Jake had a number of good albums and quasi-hits... Florida!
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Genre OG with MMBTs were Op Ivy (became Rancid) with pioneering SkaCore east bay sound from Berkeley, CA...
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An awesome album from Catch 22 and then Streetlight Manifesto was Keasby Nights. Yeah, the main guy from C22, Tomas Kalnoky left with some of the members and re-released the material with his new band Streetlight Manifesto. Whichever version you like, both are good - C22 for energy and SM for production. Northern Jersey.
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Sublime. So Cal, essential SkaCore pre-dating all above, RIP Nowell, nuff said...
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Then there's Sublime with Rome when the lead died of a heroine overdose... still really good.
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The awesome Interrupters (So Cal) released their latest videos preceding a new album drop planned for June 2018. It's good; video parallel to the MMB breakout "The Impression That I Get" is notable.
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