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Not to be confused withSka punk.
Skate punk
Other names
  • Skate rock
  • skatecore
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsEarly 1980s,United States
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Skate punk(also known asskatecoreandskate rock) is askatersubculture andpunk rocksubgenrethat developed in the 1980s. Originally a form ofhardcore punkthat had been closely associated with skate culture, skate punk evolved into a more melodic genre of punk rock in the 1990s similar topop punk.Since then, it has predominately featured fast tempos,lead guitarplaying (includingguitar riffsandguitar solos), fast drumming, and singing (sometimes including vocal harmonies). Occasionally, skate punk also combines the fast tempos of hardcore punk andmelodic hardcorewith the catchy hooks of pop-punk.

1970s and early 1980s punk rock bands likeBuzzcocks,Descendents,Adolescents,Black Flag,andCircle Jerkspaved the way for skate punk. Skate punk was pioneered in the 1980s by bands such as theBig Boys,Suicidal Tendencies,JFA,T.S.O.L.,Drunk InjunsandLove Canal.Many early skate punk bands are part of the hardcore punk movementnardcore,which emerged inOxnard, California.Skate punk bandBad Religionstarted the more melodic style of skate punk in 1988 with the band's influential albumSuffer.This melodic style of skate punk continued in the 1990s with bands likeNOFX,Lagwagon,Pennywise,Face to Face,andNo Use for a Name.

Skate punk broke into the mainstream during the 1990s with bands such asthe OffspringandBlink-182.Other bands, like NOFX, Pennywise, Face to Face,MxPxand Bad Religion, achieved underground to moderate success. Many skate punk bands' songs were featured inTony Hawk'svideo games, a series that sold millions. Punk's popularity continued in the early 2000s with many bands continuing to make albums that received a lot of attention. During the 2010s, later skate punk bands such asTrash Boat,Cerebral Ballzy,andTrash Talk,achieved underground success through the influence of previous skate punk bands.

Characteristics[edit]

Skateboardinghas largely been associated with skate punk andpunk rockculture.

Skate punk is also known as skate rock and skatecore.[1]Noted byAllMusicfor having "high-energy", skate punk features fast tempos.[2]Many of the original skate punk bands in the 1980s were hardcore punk bands. In the 1990s, this changed when more bands began to play a style of skate punk that sounded more likepop punkand standard punk rock thanhardcore punk.[2]

Also a skatersubculture,skate punk's origins go back toskate cultureandsurf culture.[3]Author Sharon M. Hannon noted skate punk is known for "its fast guitars, driving bass lines, andsurf music–style drums ".[4]According to Mark Lepage ofSpinmagazine, it often has a "double-time hup-two-three-four beat".[5]Skate punk music often features singing and vocal harmonies.[6]Rolling Stonedescribed skate punk as "a sort of pop hardcore".[7]Some skate punk music has lyrics that are about humor - "mostly of the smartass variety".[2]

Much skate punk music features lead guitar playing,guitar riffs,and sometimesguitar solos.Skate punk is described by AllMusic as having "thrashier guitars" than regular punk rock.[2]Blast beatsand fast drumming are very common in skate punk. Skate punk features the fast tempos ofhardcore punkandmelodic hardcore,occasionally combining them with the catchy hooks ofpop punk.Some skate punk bands play other genres of music; pop punk,funk metal,and hardcore punk are genres that are noted for being played by some skate punk bands.[2]Skate punk paved the way forthird-wave ska.[2]Some skate punk bands, includingNOFX[8]andthe Suicide Machines,[9]also playska punk.Some skate punk bands, includingSuicidal TendenciesandExcel,also playthrash metalorcrossover thrash.[10]

History[edit]

Predecessors (1970s and early 1980s)[edit]

California punk bands likeBlack Flag,Adolescents,andCircle Jerkspaved the way for skate punk with their "fast and raw" music, "which replicated the feel of skating."[11]1970s punk bands like theBuzzcocksand 1980s punk bands like TheDescendentsmade fast and catchy punk rock songs about teenage confusion, and also combined the aggression and speed of hardcore punk withpop-inspiredmelodies.[12]

Origins (1980s)[edit]

Black-and-white photo of a punk band performing live
Bad Religionperforming live in theNetherlandsin 1995

Originally derived from hardcore punk,[2]skate punk began in the early 1980s.[4]TheBig Boys[4]andJFA[4]are considered pioneers of skate punk. Bands such asGang Green,Suicidal Tendencies,[2]The Faction,Rich Kids on LSD,Tales of Terror,Agression,[13]Drunk InjunsandNOFXwere among the first wave of skate punk bands.[2]Johnny Loftus of AllMusic described early skate punk music as "a confluence of punk's anger and simplicity, the furious speed of hardcore, and defiantly smart-assed machismo".[13]Many early skate punk bands are part of the hardcore punk movementnardcore,which emerged inOxnard, California.[13]Popular among skateboarders, 1980s hardcore punk bands with connections to skateboarding culture were labeled as "skate punk" - the origin of the term.[2]Early skate punk bands are noted for creating the connection between punk rock and skateboarding.[13]Mörizen "Mofo" Föche, vocalist of Drunk Injuns and former employee of the magazineThrasher,is "often credited with first coining the term 'skate-punk'."[1]Bad Religion's 1988 albumSufferis seen by many as a highly influential landmark album in the skate punk genre.[14]Sufferhelped start the melodic style of skate punk that continued in the 1990s.[15]

Mainstream success (1990s and early 2000s)[edit]

As skate punk became more popular during the 1990s, it changed into a more melodic genre.[2]During this time, someskate punkbands experienced mainstream success and were featured at events such as theWarped Tour,which started in 1995. Prominent skate punk bands of the 1990s includeConsumed,[16]Good Riddance,[17]Strung Out,[18][19]NOFX,[20][21]Goldfinger,[22]Lagwagon,[23][24]Guttermouth,[25]No Use for a Name,[26]Blink-182,[27][28]Face to Face,[29]Slick Shoes,[30]MxPx,[22]Unwritten Law,[31]Ten Foot Pole,[32]Screeching Weasel,[33]Bad Religion,[6][34]the Offspring,[35]andPennywise.[36]

Skate punk band NOFX

Skate punk broke into the mainstream in 1994. The Offspring's albumSmash,released in 1994, launched the band into the mainstream.[37]Smash,certified 6× platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[38]sold at least 6.3 million copies in the United States[39]and at least 5 million copies outside the United States.[40]NOFX's 1994 albumPunk in Drublicwas eventually certified gold by the RIAA on May 5, 2000.[41]Unlike other 1990s punk rock bands, NOFX never signed to a major record label. Also, NOFX has not given permission for its music videos to be played on channels likeMTVandVH1.[42]Explaining this decision NOFX memberFat Mikesaid: "We made the 'Leave It Alone' video, and we decided not to send it to MTV. We just didn't want to be a part of that machine, of that 'punk wave.' I think it's one of the best decisions we've ever made."[43]California skate punk band Face to Face had local success with their song "Disconnected",which was played often on California radio stationKROQ-FM.With "Disconnected" constantly playing on KROQ-FM, Face to Face's 1995 albumBig Choicesold more than 100,000 copies.[44]

Skate punk band Pennywise at Warped Tour 2007

Other skate punk bands achieved underground to moderate success. Pennywise's 1993 albumUnknown Roadsold 100,000 copies within two years, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and helped bring the band underground popularity.[45]Bad Religion's 1994 albumStranger Than Fictionwas certified gold by the RIAA on March 4, 1998.[46]Stranger Than Fiction'ssong "21st Century (Digital Boy)"peaked at number 11 on theAlternative Songschart on December 24, 1994[47]and the song's music video was played a lot onMTV.[48]AlthoughIxnay on the Hombreby the Offspring did not achieve the same sales as the Offspring's albumSmash,Ixnay on the Hombreby the Offspring was certified platinum by the RIAA in April 1997.[49]As of November 1998, the album sold at least 3 million copies worldwide[50]and, as of August 2015, the album sold 1.4 million copies in the United States.[51]In June 1997, Blink-182 released its albumDude Ranch.It was certified gold by the RIAA in February 1998, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in November 1999.[52]Scott Heisel ofAlternative PressdescribedDude Ranchas "a killer skate-punk record".[53]Dude Ranch'ssingle "Dammit"was a hit. It peaked at number 61 onBillboard'sHot 100 Airplay chart,[54]received heavy radio airplay,[55]and was played a lot by MTV.[56]In 1998, the Offspring released their albumAmericana,which was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA.[57]MxPx began to receive underground attention in 1996 with the band's third albumLife in General,which sold 89,000 copies within two years, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and helped the band's first two albums,Pokinatcha(1994) andTeenage Politics(1995), sell 50,000 combined.[58]The song "Chick Magnet"received limited play onMTVandM2.[59]MxPx released its fourth albumSlowly Going the Way of the Buffalo,which was certified gold by the RIAA in January 2000.[60]

The skateboarding video game seriesTony Hawk'sfeatured music by many skate punk bands, including Lagwagon, Guttermouth,the Vandals,Suicidal Tendencies,Millencolin,Bad Religion, andConsumed.[61]Tony Hawk's Pro Skaterwas one of the top-selling video games forPlayStationin November 1999.[62]Quickly after being released,Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2,released in 2000, was thetop-sellingPlayStationtitle for two consecutive weeks.[63][64]Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2quickly sold 1,000,000 copies.[63]The sales of the video game reached 5,300,000 copies in the United States.[65]Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3,released in 2001, sold about 2,100,000 copies in the United States.[66]As skate punk achieved success in the 1990s, record labels likeEpitaph RecordsandFat Wreck Chordssigned numerous punk bands.[67]

Underground revival (2010s)[edit]

During the 2010s, there was an emergence of skate punk bands influenced by older skate punk bands.[68]These bands includeTrash Talk,[68][69]FIDLAR,[68]Trash Boat[70][71]andCerebral Ballzy.[68][72]Many of them attracted cult followings by promoting their music on theInternet.[68]Many of these bands, including Trash Talk[69]and Cerebral Ballzy,[72]are influenced by hardcore punk andspeed metal.FIDLAR is influenced by skate punk bands Blink-182 and the Offspring.[68]and achieved underground and moderate success; theirself-titled albumdebuted at number five onBillboard'sTop Heatseekerschart.[68]

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Bibliography[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Butz, Konstantin (2014).Grinding California: Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk.transcript Verlag.ISBN9783839421222.

External links[edit]

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