Streetlight Manifesto

Streetlight Manifesto is an American skapunk band with very strong punk influences that is often credited with starting the fourth wave of ska. They have very notable ska, jazz, latin, and traditional Eastern European music influences. They hail from New Brunswick, New Jersey and are fronted by Tomas Kalnoky, who originally started Catch 22 (and later had Streetlight Manifesto cover the songs he wrote with Catch 22).

They released their first album, Everything Goes Numb, which was distributed by Victory Records, on August 26, 2003. The band headlined and sold out their first concert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey on December 9, 2003. Several of Streetlight Manifesto's members were well known in the New Jersey third wave ska community for their roles in past ska punk bands from that area, primarily Kalnoky's Catch 22 and fellow New Jersey band One Cool Guy. As of October 4, 2009, the lineup consists of songwriter Tomas Kalnoky on guitar and lead vocals, Mike Brown on alto and baritone sax, Jim Conti on alto and tenor sax, Pete McCullough on bass guitar, Matt Stewart on trumpet, Nadav Nirenberg on trombone, and Chris Thatcher on drums.

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