Third wave gave ska the speed and attitude that made Americans finally pay attention. If you grew up hearing horns that fast, you know exactly what that meant.

Third wave gave ska the speed and attitude that made Americans finally pay attention. If you grew up hearing horns that fast, you know exactly what that meant.
Epitaph Records understood what the 90s needed: a label that treated horn sections like they belonged in punk. Still does.
The weight of making an album while grieving is impossible to measure. Long Beach ska punk changed everything, and the proof arrived exactly when it hurt most.
Dairy Queen is responsible for more to ska than anyone has properly acknowledged. That's not hyperbole, that's just math.
The skankin' pit didn't invent itself. Someone had to decide the dancefloor was a horn section too.