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Real big roast at Verizon

RBF and friends ride the third-wave into Houston tonight

By Dusti Rhodes
The Daily Cougar

The Warped Tour lineup was missing something this year -- ska. Although in the past the tour has usually featured a wide range of genres, as the years go by it seems to be that rude boys and girls are being left in the dust of the Warped caravan as ska bands lose out to hardcore.

The good news is (for those still sporting their two-tone slip-ons and black ties) that a few ska veterans are blazing their own trail this summer and making a stop in Houston tonight. 

Reel Big Fish's Coast to Coast Roast hits the Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas Ave., with the Rx Bandits, Lucky Boys Confusion and Catch 22.

RBF always manage to put on an entertaining show and, as long as fans show up, the crowd is usually in a full sweat by the end of the first song.

The band hit its height of popularity in 1997 when "Sellout" from the album Turn the Radio Off received radio play and the video became an MTV favorite. The band has released only two full-length albums since then and the last one, Cheer Up, hardly met with the acclaim received by Radio.

But the band plays on and has brought some of the best ska has to offer with them for the ride.

Rx Bandits have an interesting take on the genre; in their fourth album, Progression, the band began to move into a prog-ska sound that may have audiences frozen in confusion and awe tonight.

Catch 22 is one of the last bands to put out great third-wave ska records. 

Their blend of punk and ska will give fans a chance for some rowdy sing-a-longs, and the entire lineup will allow the fans Warped left behind to get in on some good ol' fashioned skanking.

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