Don’t Make Me Do It

Veteran Punk-Riff Maniacs RANCID Are Still Punk-Riff Maniacs Today – 10th Album ‘TOMORROW NEVER COMES’ Out Now

Posted on by JL

4 June 2023

Californian veteran punk rockers RANCID are making lots of racket since 1991 and after the release of their 2017 album Trouble Maker they just launched number 10, entitled TOMORROW NEVER COMES.

Kerrang says: “Big choruses, bold tempos, muscular arrangements. Because for all their latter-day familiarity, Rancid are not the same band as their younger selves. ‘Eddie the Butcher was a stevedore / We sailed together on the Singapore shore,’ sings Tim Armstrong on the quite wonderful New American. Time was this group were criticised for what their detractors imagined – wrongly, as it goes – to be a likeness to The Clash, but in the 21st century they’ve become as evocative as The Pogues. An ageless punk rock poet he may be, but on Tim, advanced middle-age is a good look.” Score: 4/5.

TUTV: The middle-aged noise crusaders from the sunny state started as punk-riff maniacs 32 years ago, and they’re still punk-riff maniacs today. But not just that alone, they still come up with cast iron juggernauts that incite chaotic moshpits and triggers many lungs to blow up when scream-yell-bellow along choruses fly all over the place. I just wonder if their grandchildren are Rancid fans too.

Singles/Clips: Devil In Disguise / Don’t Make Me Do It / Tomorrow Never Comes

– DEVIL IN DISGUISE –

– DON’T MAKE ME DO IT –

– TOMORROW NEVER COMES –

RANCID: Website – Instagram

Wakening Up With Punk-Riff Maniacs RANCID And An 58 Sconds Scream Contest

Posted on by JL

Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

Californian veteran punk rockers RANCID are making lots of racket since 1991 and after the release of their 2017 album Trouble Maker they’re ready for their 10th longplayer, titled TOMORROW NEVER COMES. It lands on June 2.

Hellcat Records: “Rancid – the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century. Through it all, Rancid has remained fiercely independent, never losing their loyalty to community or each other. Their music confronts political and social issues, while balancing personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude. Rancid gives their listeners a community where everyone can belong. By carrying on the traditions and spirit of the original punk rock bands that came before, Rancid has become a legend and inspiration to punk bands that have come after. They are the living They are the living embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you don’t know all this by now, you’re not playing their music loud enough!”

Following the title track Rancid drop a second bomb called
DON’T MAKE ME DO IT. A three-vocal scream contest that
only lasts for 58 seconds.

Make some noizzzzzzz.

RANCID: Website – Instagram