Tim Mcilrath Discusses His Respect For Rancid
Tim Mcilrath of Rise Against joined Kevin Manno at the Q101 studios in Chicago for over an hour, playing some of his favorite songs, taking calls from listeners, and how much he loved touring with Rancid. “Those guys are the real deal,” Tim said of the veteran punk rock band. “So many guys sing songs and don’t walk the walk. This is a band that sings songs about brotherhood and friendship and punk music. They really are brothers, they really are friends. When you pull back the veil, they’re real guys. It was so inspiring as a guy who wants to be in a band the next 20 years to see these four dudes getting along, loving each other, loving the band, loving the music, and still be so real.” Watch
Rancid ‘Up To No Good’ Video
Rancid are out with the video to their latest single ‘Up To No Good’, from the veteran punk rock group’s seventh full-length album ‘Let The Dominoes Fall’, in stores now on Hellcat Records. Watch it via YouTube below.
Rancid ‘Last One To Die’ Video
Rancid are out with the video to their new single ‘Last One To Die’, off the American punk rock band’s seventh full-length album ‘Let The Dominoes Fall’, in stores now on Hellcat Records. Watch below.
Rancid Perform In Ft. Lauderdale
Rancid performed at Revolution on Friday (July 21) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Check out pictures from GettyImages.
Hilary Duff Turned On To AFI And Rancid Thanks To Boyfriend
Melissa Ruggieri of the Richmond Times Dispatch caught up with Hilary Duff, who says Good Charlotte boyfriend Joel Madden has broadened her musical taste. “He’s taught me about music I’d never heard before. He’s changed my tastes,” Duff said. “I think some of it’s kinda weird, but, like, Rancid, I really like them. He turned me on to them. And to AFI. But I totally listen to pop music, too. I totally listen to Top 40!”
Rancid Does What They Want
Rancid guitarist and co-vocalist Lars Frederiksen acknowledged to Zero magazine that the band’s five-year press lock-out may have contributed to a slight career slump but quickly noted how it
was all their decision. “After we put out ‘Life Won’t Wait’ we decided we weren’t
going to talk to the press anymore,” he explained. “We wanted to take a step back and say ‘fu** it all.’ It was kind of like a ‘fu** you, we’re going to do what we want; we are
going to be here forever.’ That’s the thing about Rancid, no one can tell us what to do–record labels, managers, whomever. So if we want to do something, we’re going to do it. That’s been the spirit of Rancid for 12 years. For all our experience we just know that taking care of us is number one. We don’t give a fu** what anyone else says or thinks, the most important people are the four of us.”
Punk Rock Found Rancid
In the beginning, punk was about acceptance, and few bands have kept that spirit alive the way Rancid has over the last 12 years. “One of the things we say is that we didn’t find punk rock; punk rock sort of found us,” bassist Matt Freeman tells Jason Bracelin of the Cleveland Scene. “I was a freak kid, had no social skills, didn’t fit in anywhere until I started to go to punk shows. Then there was all these people who were as fu**ed up, or more fu**ed up than I was. It was sort of like ‘Wow, this is rad. I’m accepted here. I’m not a freak.’ I think punk rock is still about that. There’s always gonna be fu**ed-up kids that have some fu**ed-up sh** at home, or God knows what’s happened to them,” Freeman sighs. “Punk rock is a refuge from that.” The full story at clevescene.com has since been removed.
On TV: Nada Surf, Rancid, Eve 6
Rock acts on television this week include Nada Surf, who perform on Last Call with Carson Daly on Tuesday; Rancid, who perform on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Tuesday; Maroon 5, who perform on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday; Stereophonics, who perform on the Sharon Osbourne Show on Tuesday and Last Call with Carson Daly on Wednesday; Eve 6, who perform on the Sharon Osbourne Show on Wednesday; R.E.M., who perform on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday; Fuel, who perform on the Late Late Show on Thursday and Last Call on Friday; Staind, who perform on Late Night on Thursday; Pete Yorn, who performs on the Late Late Show on Friday; Pennywise, who perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday.
Busted Star Moans Over Pink’s Rancid Collaboration
After hearing that Pink has turned to punk rockers Rancid for the production duties, Busted star Charlie Simpson told the Daily Star: “Pink is working with Rancid on her new album. It’s ridiculous. She’s about as punk as my little finger.”
Rancid Perform At Brixton Academy
Rancid performed at Brixton Academy in London on Thursday (September 18). Check out pictures from GettyImages.
