Rancid know how to pack an album. Each of the band’s seven full-length releases has roughly 20 songs, and they typically clock in at more than an hour. And while not every song in the Berkeley punks’ ...

We've pretty much detailed at length on this site how about half of legendary punk rock act Rancid are superfans of their hometown MLS teams. Both drummer Branden Steineckert and founder/guitarist ...

Something great happened a little less than halfway through Rancid’s Friday night set at BB King’s: the band started playing “Knowledge,” the first song from Operation Ivy’s 1989 album Energy. Two of ...

When Tim Armstrong’s brother Greg first returned from military service in Iraq, the Rancid frontman knew something was wrong. After all he’d seen in the war, Greg couldn’t relate to his family and ...

It’s safe to assume that the punk-ska-reggae hybrid known as Rancid is not without its friends. Spin “Life Won’t Wait” (Epitaph), the band’s newly released fourth disc, and you’ll notice that a number ...

The punk revivalists in Rancid might look like the Sex Pistols and sound like the Clash, but live, the quartet has more in common with a rap crew. Singer-guitarist Tim Armstrong has a raspy cadence as ...

Ronald Reagan’s wars, both on drugs and against the “evil empire,” made the ’80s a prime time to be a punk band. The scene was ripe in California, notably in the Bay Area, as 924 Gilman Street opened ...

Plus tracks from No Doubt, Judas Priest, The Dead Weather and more for Wii and songs from The Grateful Dead and Thin Lizzy for Rock Band Unplugged! Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that indie ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The first tracks from Kings of Leon and Rancid hit Rock Band next week, topping a massive list of tracks dropping across all three consoles. Ring ...

Something great happened a little less than halfway through Rancid’s Friday night set at BB King’s: the band started playing “Knowledge,” the first song from Operation Ivy’s 1989 album Energy. Two of ...