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It's not like we need another Rancid record. Rancid is just another excuse for us to hang out. Hellcat Records is Brett Gurewitz and me so there ain't nobody telling us what to do. Q: So are you guys back out on the road for the foreseeable future once this tour winds down? TA: But when we get onstage, we take care of them. So, you know what? Be nice to the young guys because they'll be taking you out on tour soon. We're on this tour with Rise Against and they're young guys. Those kids are going through it and punk's still alive on that level. There's a whole world that's under the radar that's very punk. It's not like all the new bands are in the mall. TA: There's always young bands coming out of the neighbourhoods, playing garages and backyard parties. bands like Rancid and Bad Religion and Green Day laid the groundwork for the mainstream popularization of punk rock, even if a lot of it these days is pretty dreadful 'mall-punk.' Do you kind of feel like granddaddies of a scene? for a week for this tour and we love to rehearse. We rehearsed in Utah for a week and we rehearsed in L.A. I look back at all the records and we could play any song off any record, any time.

We embrace our whole career, all of our recorded music. We're playing, any given night, songs from 23 years. We still play songs off our first record and second record and third record, songs off my solo records and songs of Lars's solo records and songs off the B-Sides. TA: Operation Ivy was 23 years ago and we still play Operation Ivy songs. It must be quite satisfying now to have seven albums and nearly 20 years' worth of material to draw from every night. Q: You guys are and always have been a band that thrives onstage. LF: There's a lot of people who are over there who are doing a job that's so demanding we would probably never understand. And we're, like: 'Where's the information about the kids over there fighting this war?' That was one of the things that inspired us to write a song like 'Bravest Kids.'

#If the kids are united rancid tv#

TA: That's just because we turn on the TV and they'll have, like, Paris Hilton getting out of jail and sh. Q: You're quite critical of your home nation on the new record, but there's also a non-icky nationalism at play in lyrics 'I'm disconnected from the country I love' and a couple of very vocal shout-outs to the troops in Iraq. We spoke to Armstrong and Frederiksen about Rancid's revitalized political bite just before they kicked off the two-month tour with Rise Against that will shut down tomorrow night at the Molson Amphitheatre. The mood of the whole, raging thing is effectively summed up by the chorus to 'Damnation:' 'All I see is damnation / The whole world's gone to hell.' Let The Dominoes Fall is textbook Rancid, straddling Clash-like working-class anthems, ska and dub reggae while it lyrically skewers such contentious topics as the war in Iraq, the pointlessness of bipartisan politics and the ongoing mistreatment of post-Katrina New Orleans. If The Kids Are United features numerous. The 25-track compilation album was released on Decemthrough Rude Records. As it turns out, Rancid was just recharging its batteries for the most valiant and vicious punk-rock screed to bear its name since the California quartet rose to prominence in the 1990s. If The Kids Are United is a charity-fund-raising project from PGA. Along the way, there were a couple of Rancid tours in 20, but nothing in the way of new music.Īfter 18 years together – 23 if you count Armstrong and Freeman's time together in Operation Ivy – had the well finally run dry? And Matt Freeman briefly hit the road as fill-in bassist for fellow punk-rock vets Social Distortion. Lars Frederiksen made another record with his own band, the Bastards (albeit with writing and production help from Armstrong).

Tim Armstrong did another Transplants record, recorded a solo album and co-wrote tunes with Pink and Gwen Stefani. The six years that passed between 2003's Indestructible and this spring's Let the Dominoes Fall witnessed much activity within the extended Rancid family, just very little of it pertaining to Rancid itself. All this and more on The Pod Punk Show! *All episodes edited by Aaron Haag.For a while there, it looked as if Rancid might have lost interest in Rancid. The show catches up on their Thanksgiving and explores a darker side of YouTube. They man-crush on Matt Freeman and Lars and explore the band's history with all the dirt, crust, and scabs galore. Hi Pod'Punkers! This week the Boys (Aaron Haag & John Brian) dive into AH's all-time favorite band: RANCID.