Let's sneak into this genre right here and cause some damage

Turns out the guy who served me coffee today, Greg Rodrigue, is also a member of local ska/punk stalwarts Fatter Than Albert. "Stalwarts," in the New Orleans sense, means any ska/punk band that has made more than one album and gone on more than one tour. And survived. That seems kinda rare here.

So, Greg from FTA also co-runs a local ska/punk label called Community Records that has eleven national bands from that genre. He had a funny view on ska/punk, which was that 80% of it sucks. I said it was unusual for someone in a band, especially a owner of a record label, to think a majority of the groups from the genre he/she operates in is horrible. To that, he basically said that operating in a sucky genre was advantageous because when you release something of quality, people are that much more likely to notice. The standards have been lowered, and when you produce something better than average, it comes out looking super, super awesome.

He also said the guys in Black Belt used to be in a ska/punk band called the Supaflies. I did not know that.

*Click on the title link for the Community Records website*