Streetlight Manifesto

New Jersey's Streetlight Manifesto deserves a couple of props. First, for still carrying the torch of third-wave ska as it was largely played at its tail end in the late Nineties: in a group of many, many musicians, and with a heavy punk edge. Second, for remaining pretty much the only one to do so on hardcore stalwart label Victory Records.

Location Info

Venue

Culture Room

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Culture Room

3045 N. Federal Highway
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Fort Lauderdale

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Streetlight Manifesto: With A Wilhelm Scream, the Swellers, and The Stitch Up. Friday, February 6. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $18 in advance. All ages. 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net

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More About

• Streetlight Manifesto
• Tomas Kalnoky
• Dan Potthast
• Wilhelm Scream

That makes sense if you look at the band's pedigree, though. Its driving force is songwriter/frontman Tomas Kalnoky, who shored up the excellent Catch 22 back then, one of the few bands to successfully merge new ska with an almost-hardcore sensibility. (That band also still plays, in somewhat reduced form, and with a sort of rivalry with Streetlight Manifesto.) While the band is said to be working on an ambitious quadruple-CD project called 99 Songs of Revolution, it continues to tour for its 2007 full-length, Somewhere in the Between.

Performing in support are a few groups that span genres. Massachusetts quintet A Wilhelm Scream plays melodic, hardcore-ish skate punk. Michigan quartet the Swellers aren't too far off but delve occasionally into '90s-style, indie-rock-influenced patches. And The Stitch Up, also a punk band, is fronted by another legendary '90s ska-punk figure: MU330's Dan Potthast.