Skid Row（中国大陆译为：穷街乐队）是一支美国重金属乐队。1986年，乐队在新泽西成立，这支乐队是90年代重金属摇滚音乐的代表，在当时获得了极大的成功。 乐队成立初期只是作为一些知名乐团做演出前的暖场表演，直到该乐队在****年的时候推出了自己的同名专辑“Skid Row”而一炮走红，专辑的销量也超过了300万张。其代表作，描写少年犯罪的“18 And Life”和抒情的“I Remember You”成为了那个时代的经典之作。其后乐队先后推出了第2张和第3张专辑，但是由于当时摇滚音乐的黄金时期已经过去，专辑销量也受到影响，最终在1996年乐队的灵魂人物 Bach 因为与乐队成员不合而离开乐队。虽然此后乐队有宣布重组，但此时的 Skid Row 已不比当年，人们心中的 Skid Row 已经成为历史。1998年公司为 Skid Row 乐队出了精选集“40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row”来纪念那个辉煌的时代。

A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, inhabited by the poor, the homeless, and/or others considered disreputable and forgotten by society. The term skid row may be applied variously to anything from an impoverished urban district to a red-light district to a gathering area for the homeless. It can even be applied figuratively indicating not a physical location but rather the fact the state of a poor person's life. In general, though, skid row refers to areas inhabited or frequented by marginalized individuals (typically marginalized by poverty though drug addiction, and/or other factors may be at play as well). Urban areas considered skid rows often feature cheap taverns, dilapidated buildings, and drug dens as well as other features of urban blight.