Rancid

When they recorded their ninth album, "Trouble Maker", the venerable punks of Rancid had been working together as a band for 25 years. It would follow that maybe the record would be nostalgic, and it is. Both lyrically and musically, the 19 songs have the blurry feel of old Polaroids, as the bandmembers stick to their guns and dish out tales of past glories.

Rancid - the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century. Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible – start an even better band. Thus, Rancid.

When they recorded their ninth album, "Trouble Maker", the venerable punks of Rancid had been working together as a band for 25 years. It would follow that maybe the record would be nostalgic, and it is. Both lyrically and musically, the 19 songs have the blurry feel of old Polaroids, as the bandmembers stick to their guns and dish out tales of past glories.

Rancid - the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century.

Rancid as a band have always been imbued with a sense of place: the blue collar neighborhoods where they grew up in Berkley, California, their place as individuals within their band, their band as part of a movement and their evolving sense of place in relation to the world at large.

Just as Green Day aped the Ramones, their contemporaries in this Southern California punk quartet aspired to be the Clash. But also like Green Day, Rancid's fresh approach and excellent songs. While 19 songs makes this CD drag on a bit too long, Wolves is evidence of punk rock's relevance a full two decades after the Sex Pistols…

Albums that make Amazon.com's yearly "Best of" list are sometimes judged using high-falutin' artsy talk. Rancid has landed on the list because it compelled editors to scribble anarchy symbols in public hallways. Twenty-two songs, 39 minutes, and not one wasted second. A pure punk joyride with the throttle wide open…

Rancid, one of rock's most influential indie bands of the 90s, finally makes its major-label debut with Indestructible, it's first album in three years…

Heavily influenced by The Clash, Rancid took the '90s punk scene by storm with an uncompromising sound that was nevertheless more musically and lyrically sophisticated than many of their peers. "B Sides and C Sides" is a rarities compilation album by Rancid, contains a number of B and C sides as well as compilation or soundtrack appearances.