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Third Wave Ska - School of Rock: Alt Rock's Evolution
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Take a porkpie hat brimming with rankin’, skankin’ Jamaican ska and a jackboot stuffed with D.I.Y. punk attitude, and what’ve you got? The official uniform of yet another — the [i]third[/i], in fact — wave of ska, this one slamming into Stateside shores in the late ’80s and saturating everything in between, leaving America “ska’d for life.” Hoisting the checkered flag from second-generation/2 Tone bands, like the Specials and Madness, New York’s favorite snap-brimmed sons, the Toasters, spike their ska with a double shot of new wave — think Oingo Boingo on a rum-soaked bender — in “Weekend in L.A.” Berkeley punks with Brixton souls, Rancid put the [i]ska[/i] into [i]skatecore[/i] with a Clash-ified, Soho-style meltdown in “Time Bomb.” And tartan-bondage-panted princess Gwen Stefani rips a honey-over-barbed-wire slap at a stalker-suitor in “Spiderwebs” from No Doubt’s [i]ten-times platinum[/i] breakthrough album, [i]Tragic Kingdom[/i]. From Sublime to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, from Fishbone to Reel Big Fish, we’re giving you an earful of recent rude boy rapture, and it’s all a mouse-click away.