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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
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Back home in Boston, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are larger-than-life guitar (and horn) heroes — an Aerosmith for the Warped Tour set. And who can blame anyone for having a bit of Beantown pride in this case? After all, the Bosstones have been an uncompromising leader among ska's third-wave since the late '80s — willing to embrace pop hooks in everything from "The Rascal King" to "Royal Oil," but always finishing off their melodies with gritty riffs that recall the group's mosh pit-imploding past (local hardcore acts like Gang Green and Impact Unit, the pre-Bosstones gigs of bassist Joe Gittleman and vocalist Dicky Barrett). The push and pull between punk and pop, rocksteady and reggae, and heavy metal and hardcore on the Bosstones' 1989 debut, [i]Devil's Night Out[/i], was so ahead of its time it invented a new subgenre — ska-core, a peace treaty at the skate park between fans of the Specials and Minor Threat.