Skate Punk
Skate punk is a fast, melodic style of punk rock closely tied to skateboarding culture.
It grew out of the California hardcore scene in the early 1980s and was most popular in the 1990s. Songs feature very quick drumming, rapid palm-muted guitar, tuneful vocals with backing harmonies and often technical playing. It is faster and harder than pop punk but more melodic than hardcore punk.
Artists it is known for: NOFX, Pennywise, Lagwagon, Bad Religion.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- California, early 1980s
- Also called
- skatecore
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have skate punk among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Skate Punk artists
blink-182
The Offspring
Sum 41
Misfits
Ramones
Descendents
Dead Kennedys
Minor Threat
Suicidal Tendencies
Bad Religion
The skate punk artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.