Pennywise

Pennywise had no idea it would be helping define a whole movement when it released its 1991 self-titled Epitaph debut. But the Hermosa Beach quartet pretty much jumpstarted the whole West Coast punk thing that led to bands like Blink-182, and at a time when the slowed-down heaviness of grunge was all the rage. Eighteen years after forming, Pennywise is still the dictionary definition of turn-of-the-century SoCal punk, with just as much barbed social commentary and musical firepower as ever. 2005’s The Fuse, the band’s eighth album, proved the Warped Tour icons’ staying power with one of its strongest sets yet, and saw Pennywise tackling topics like blatantly biased media (“Fox TV”) and our cell-phone-mad existence (“Disconnect”).