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    Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music. Ska punk tends to feature brass instruments, especially horns such as trumpets, trombones and woodwind instruments like saxophones, making the genre distinct from other forms of punk rock.

  3. Feb 28, 2020 · As if random face-mashings weren’t enough, around 1983-1985, a strange new influence crept into skate-thrash: heavy metal. Seemingly overnight, scores of once-staunchly anti-metal punk bands began to add scorching lead-guitar solos and wailing vocals into their songs.

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  4. Feb 13, 2020 · Ska in the ’90s is a documentary that pays tribute to the genre’s most important time. Appropriately narrated by Rancid’s frontman, Tim Armstrong, it initially gives us a history lesson by telling the story of how the genre came to be during the first and second waves of ska.

    • Operation Ivy – Energy (1989) Filtering their love of 70s punk through the 2-Tone movement, UK pals Culture Shock, and 80s hardcore, Operation Ivy’s two-year existence was brief, but the urgent and chaotic yet uplifting Energy established a ska punk template for decades to come.
    • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – More Noise & Other Disturbances (1992) In terms of skilled musicianship and songwriting prowess, few ska punk bands could touch The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, specifically the compositional talent of core members vocalist Dicky Barratt, Joe Gittleman the bass fiddleman, guitarist Nate Albert and trombonist Dennis Brockenborough, the latter heading up the greatest horn section that ska punk has seen.
    • Culture Shock – Onwards & Upwards (1988) Following the original split of the Subhumans in 1985, Dick Lucas returned with Culture Shock, whose sound couldn’t have been further from the nightmarish anarcho punk his former band delivered on The Day The Country Died and Cradle to The Grave.
    • Rancid – Life Won’t Wait (1998) By the time Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman resurfaced with Rancid following the Operation Ivy split, it looked as if they’d all but left ska punk behind with the raw urgency of their hardcore 1993 self-titled debut.
    • Glam punk. After the '50s teddy boys in the UK, a proto-punk look came along in the late ’60s and early ’70s courtesy of anti-establishment garage-punk bands such as the MC5 and Iggy Pop and The Stooges, who eschewed flowery psychedelia for a grubbier, darker, more unkempt look that expressed their lifestyle.
    • CBGB punk. Perhaps the first official US punk look, however, was worn by the New York City bands based around the iconic venue, CBGB. Bands such as The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Television and Richard Hell.
    • King's Road punk. Inspired by the torn, dissolute threads worn by Richard Hell as well as the provocative androgyny of New York Dolls, Sex Pistols’ impresario Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood introduced a new look for the birth of UK punk in 1976 from their shop on London’s King’s Road, SEX.
    • Anarcho punk. Anarcho-punk fashion was an evolution of the King’s Road look but, courtesy of bands such as Crass, Subhumans and Discharge, it shot off in a harder-edged, militaristic direction with lots of black clothing, anarchist symbols, mad, coloured hair styles – including gravity-defying mohawks and liberty spikes – band or political t-shirts, and tight trousers and boots.
  5. Feb 22, 2023 · In a late 1980s scene dominated by thrash and hair metal, Operation Ivy had shown up playing a pissed-off mixture of punk and ska. It was a gamble - they were regularly heckled by crowds early on – but Gilman Street was the perfect hothouse for this unlikely fusion of sounds.

  6. May 17, 2024 · Jimmy James obituary. ska, Jamaica’s first indigenous urban pop style. Pioneered by the operators of powerful mobile discos called sound systems, ska evolved in the late 1950s from an early Jamaican form of rhythm and blues that emulated American rhythm and blues, especially that produced in New Orleans, Louisiana.