Save Ferris

Save Ferris takes its name from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the 1986 teen comedy, and its roots lie in Orange County, California, where the band formed around 1995 from the wreckage of several local groups. Working under their own Starpool label, they built a following on the underground circuit of Southern California, playing whatever rooms would have them. Their sound began as ska punk, a genre that would soon shift under their feet.

Their 1996 debut EP, Introducing Save Ferris, was issued on Starpool Records and sold close to 20,000 copies, by the band's account out of the trunks of their cars. A Grammy showcase award for best unsigned band that year brought an Epic Records contract, and the 1997 album It Means Everything included a cover of Dexys Midnight Runners' "Come On Eileen", plus the single "The World Is New", later heard in The Big Hit. Modified (1999) pushed them from ska-pop towards pop-punk. After a 2002 breakup announcement and years of lineup changes, Powell revived the band in 2013, headlining Costa Mesa's Pacific Amphitheatre to over 7,000 fans.