Rancid .

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Rancid is an American punk rock band from Albany, California, formed in 1991. Founded by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy, the band is credited with helping to revive mainstream popular interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s.
Rancid includes Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Freeman on bass and vocals, Lars Frederiksen on guitar and vocals, and Branden Steineckert on drums. The band was formed by Armstrong, Freeman, and former drummer Brett Reed, who left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Steineckert. Frederiksen joined Rancid in 1993 when the band was searching for a second guitar player.
To date, Rancid has released seven studio albums, one split, one compilation, two EPs, a series of live online-only albums, and has been featured on countless compilations. The band rose to fame in 1994 with their second album, Let's Go, featuring the single "Salvation". In the following year, Rancid released their highly successful album ...And Out Come the Wolves, which produced their best-known hits "Roots Radicals", "Ruby Soho" and "Time Bomb", and was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA. Their most recent studio album, Let the Dominoes Fall was released in June 2009.

Apart from the new album being pretty crap tbh, this band is fucking LEGENDARY and pretty much owns you. Bow to them.
also, discuss them here ^^

Subject: Re: Rancid . Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:44 pm

RANCID IS THE BEST! I think Tim Armstrongs voice is so unique, how it's all raspy and just has that 'i don't give a damn if you don't like it' attitude. "Ruby Soho" "Time Bomb" and "Fall BAck Down" are my favorite songs:)

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Ahahah WIN, ANOTHER FAN

Those songs are all epic tbh xD
My current Rancid song obsessions though are the live version of Radio from the Give 'Em The Boot dvd, with Davey Havok on, and L.A. River because it's just so damn fun to sing to. xD

Subject: Re: Rancid . Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:05 pm

omg i love that song!!! my friend band is currently at work on doing there own cover of it, and i keep telling them, good luck on trying to make it as awesome as the original. lol

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ahahah, awesome!
will you link it in here once your friend finishes/puts it up somewhere?