Wednesday, May 13, 2009

3rd wave ska

the third wave of ska was when it finally made it to america in the late 80s and early 90s. this combined ska with the fast tempoed american style punk. it became known as ska punk, or, when mixed with hard core punk, skacore. it started out with bands sutch as operation ivy (r.i.p. 1987-89) and the toasters. it was soon adopted by other bands sutch as less than jake and catch 22. ska had a very big effect on american punk in the 90s and it still does with primarily punk bands like rancid and nofx showing elements of ska.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCNwrzy-pM

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