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 Primary Stylistic Influences:
Ska (especially 2 Tone), Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Hardcore Punk


Secondary Stylistic Influences:
Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock

After Grunge went out of style and Britpop failed to gain a foothold in America, this subgenre of Alternative Rock -also known as Third Wave ska - briefly came to the fore at the end of The '90s. Owing as much to Hair Metal or Classic Rock as it did to 2 Tone or Reggae, ska punk essentially took '90s Punk Rock/Pop Punk and then added horns, syncopated rhythms and some of the most cheerfully dissonant lyrics you're likely to find in pop music.
That's the musical style in a nutshell. To elaborate on the history of the genre, we'd have to go back to New York City in the early 1980s, where the first American ska scene began to develop. Much of the credit for the early development of American ska can be attributed to Robert "Bucket" Hingley, a British expatriate who enjoyed 2 Tone ska, founded his own band (The Toasters) and created the Moon Ska Records label, which recorded almost every noteworthy East Coast group at some point. Around the same time, a group of school friends from Massachusetts started The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, whose fusion of ska and Hardcore Punk was influential in the development of the ska-core style.
By the late 1980s, the most successful American ska scene was developing in California, where short-lived but hugely influential groups like Operation Ivy combined hardcore and ska influences to create their own brand of ska-core. A west coast alternative to Moon Ska appeared in the form of the Asian Man Records label, formed by Skankin' Pickle saxophonist Mike Park. After the huge success of Grunge and Punk Rock in the early to mid-nineties, ska was well placed to enter the mainstream. Early successes to come out of the California scene included reggae fusion masters Sublime, Op Ivy offshoots Rancid, whose album ... And Out Come the Wolves was the first American ska record to be certified Gold and some punk bands, like NOFX and The Offspring, who also recorded some ska-influenced songs.
In 1995, ska punk was finally brought to mainstream attention with the release of No Doubt's multi-platinum Tragic Kingdom album, which created a big demand for similar-sounding groups. 1996 and 1997 would be the peak years for the Third Wave revival. Reel Big Fish, Sublime and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones all had hit singles on the Modern Rock charts, while groups like Less Than Jake and Mustard Plug skanked it up in Florida and the mid-west respectively and music by Save Ferris or the Toasters featured in films or TV. And while the mainstream focused on the aforementioned bands, the underground scene of the late 90's and early 2000’s saw a minor subgenre of ska punk form, dubbed "Crack Rock Steady". The subgenre was pioneered by bands like Choking Victim (the Trope Namer), Morning Glory, No Ca$h, and Leftöver Crack, which fused ska, crust punk and Death Metal into one package. For a while, ska punk was pretty popular.
However, ska's fifteen minutes of fame in America were soon up. Unlike Britpop, which was clearly finished off by the third Oasis album, it's hard to place a definite Genre-Killer for ska punk. A lot of bands split up, while others (such as No Doubt, Less Than Jake and the Aquabats) changed their sound a bit. Even so, there were plenty of bands that stuck to their ska guns, such as Reel Big Fish or the Bosstones, who continue to play to audiences who remain as rabid as ever, and every so often bands - such as Chase Long Beach and Streetlight Manifesto - come along who look like they may revive ska for a fourth wave.
Also of note is that ska-punk caught on outside the U.S., more so than it did outside Jamaica or the U.K. during the first or second wave; while it didn't get as popular anywhere else as it did in the U.S., there was no backlash against it, either. In parts of South America, the third wave of ska never really ended.
Bands include:

311 (also incorporating funk rock and reggae into their sound)
Against All Authority
The Aquabats!
1997 - The Fury of The Aquabats!
Bim Skala Bim
Bomb the Music Industry!
Buck O Nine
Catch 22
Chase Long Beach
Choking Victim
Dance Hall Crashers
The Dingees (also played punk and reggae)
Farin Urlaub Racing Team
Fishbone (also a funk rock band)
Five Iron Frenzy
Goldfinger (on their first two albums only, they then became pop-punk)
Ice Nine Kills (only at the beginning of their career, currently metalcore)
Ill Scarlet
Hepcat (also a reggae band)
Less Than Jake (though they also count as pop punk)
Leftöver Crack (also counts as hardcore punk)
Lets Go Bowling
Mad Caddies
Mephiskapheles
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Morning Glory
Mustard Plug
No Doubt (up until Rock Steady at least)
NOFX
Operation Ivy (pretty much the trope codifiers of the genre)
Pepper (they're more of a punk rock/reggae hybrid really but they still count)
The Planet Smashers (though they come close to traditional Ska, with less punk influence)
Radioactive Chicken Heads
Rancid (also count as hardcore punk)
Reel Big Fish
Jeff Rosenstock
Runforyerlife (were influenced more by funk and jazz than by punk rock)
Rx Bandits (combined with Progressive Rock)
Save Ferris
The Scofflaws
Skakin Pickle
The Slackers
Slightly Stoopid (also reggae and borderline funk metal)
Smash Mouth (well, sometimes anyways, mainly their first album, Fush Yu Mang)
Streetlight Manifesto
Sublime (Despite being one of the big names in the genre, they were actually influenced more by reggae and only recorded a handful of ska songs)
Long Beach Dub All-Stars
Sublime with Rome
The Suicide Machines
The Toasters (though closer to 2-Tone ska in sound)
The Untouchables
The Upsetters (also a reggae group)
The Vincent Black Shadow
The Voodoo Glow Skulls
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