The Second Wave, also referred to as '2-Tone', ruled in the UK but made small waves in the US in its earliest moments in the 1980s. With a more stripped-down sound, 2-Tone managed to catch on with younger crowds through frequent radio play. As 2-Tone was ending its run in the years preceding the 1993 mainstream appearances, three major pockets of interest were popping up in the US: one radiating from New York City out to Washington and Boston, another in the Midwest and the third in California. These became The Third Wave. The band often considered to be the first third wave ska band formed in 1981 and have been performing ever since, it was thanks to the efforts of them and the other early third wave artists that the platform was created from which third wave ska would take the United States by storm in the 1990s.
The Toasters - Radiation Stink (1987)
