Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of Southern California ska-punk bands to edge into the mainstream following the mid-’90s success of No Doubt and Sublime. Like most of their peers, the band was ...

Veteran ska-punk outfit Reel Big Fish made quite a splash (ahem) back in the 1990s, especially during the brief and — to some — regrettable period where ska, blended with rock and pop stylings, ...

Aaron Barrett has spent the past 25 years writing songs about heartbreak, professional outrage and losing girlfriends, sometimes to members of the opposite sex. His latest effort as the main ...

More than 20 years after asking to “Turn the Radio Off” and being called a “Sell Out,” Reel Big Fish are back with another record to prove that (sadly?) ska didn’t die in the 1990s. Unlike past Reel ...

Orange County, California’s ska-punk band Reel Big Fish has been producing angsty tunes since its 1995 underground hit “Everything Sucks.” Since then, the band has released seven total studio albums ...

In 1996, Orange County ska-rock band Reel Big Fish had been around a handful of years and garnered a substantial following by the time it released its sophomore album, “Turn the Radio Off.” A year ...

Maybe it’s better that some bands never become uber-famous. That’s the selfish position of a music fan, a sign of our increasingly entitled culture for sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong either.

California ska/punk band Reel Big Fish has been entertaining audiences for two decades with their upbeat songs celebrating partying, drinking and slyly enjoying life — usually peppered with a rather ...

When Reel Big Fish vocalist-guitarist Aaron Barrett was coming of age in Southern California a generation ago he knew that he would become a musician. “I was just so into it,” Barrett said. “I wanted ...

Besides being most identified as the poster boys for the mid-'90s ska explosion, the members of smart-alecky outfit Reel Big Fish are somewhat infamous for their goofy covers of '80s hits.

My daughter is equally as terrible as she is beautiful, and she’s definitely driving me crazy,” said Johnny “Christmas” Christianson with a laugh, as he expertly juggled his daughter, Olivia, and his ...