The spirit of aloha is alive and well and currently residing in sunny Southern California. Meet Pepper; Bret Bollinger, Kaleo Wassman, and Yesod Williams, three young innovative minds mixed with divine inspiration from the Hawaiian Islands. Pepper has been perched on the cusp of success since their relocation to Southern California in 1999, inspired by Volcom Entertainments (a subsidiary music company of the surf/skate/snow lifestyle and credibility leader www.volcoment.com ) excitement and interest in producing and distributing the bands endless eruption of original music.

"Given It" recorded at Kailua-Kona studio Jags (actually a coffee shack), is the bands first official release combining dancehall, reggae, punk, hip-hop, and pop, sparked some initial interest in Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman. With Kevin's interest and Volcom's involvement Pepper graced the premiere side stage at Warped Tour 2001.

As the early morning heat rises on the grounds of the annual punk rock "summer camp", Volcom's side stage is being built, however, not by someone from the higher budget stages and lighting companies hired by the "econo-core", tour, but by the very hands that will later be handling skins and axe duties for this particular side stage's freshest new talent...the sunny sounds of Hawaii 's very own Pepper.