New Rancid album out sooooon!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/see-rancid-play-three-punky-ragers-from-their-new-album-20140930

Rancid - New Album "Honor Is All We Know" is out oct 27!

Just almost two years later than expected it is here, hopefully.


Single on Spotify here  https://play.spotify.com/album/0mWSITKYMO2SyBejNoffM5

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Rancid - Roots Radicals [Official Video] Let´s Have a Rancid Tuesday

Let´s Have a Rancid Tuesday....



Rancid - Roots Radicals (US)

from the album "...And Out Came The Wolves... " (1995)

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Rancid - Wrongful Suspicion / Corazon De Oro

Let´s have a Rancid Tuesday





Rancid - Wrongful Suspicion (US)
From the album "Life Won´t Wait" (1998)

Rancid - Corazon D´Oro (US)
From the album "Life Won´t Wait" (1998)

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Rancid - Old Friend/Brad Logan (California Sun)

Let´s have a Rancid Tuesday

Rancid - Old Friend (US)

From the album "...And Out Came The Wolves" (1995)

Rancid - "Brad Logan" (US)
From the album "Chef Aid: The South Park Album" (1998)

Often tha song is called California Sun 

Olympia - Tim Timebomb and Friends (Let´s have a Rancid Tuesday)

(Let´s have a Rancid Tuesday)
Tim "Timebomb" Armstrongs way of killing time.

Tim Timebomb and Friends - Olympia (Rancid Cover) (US)

Originally recorded by Rancid on their classic album "...And Out Come The Wolves" (1995)

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Rancid - New Album Soon!

Rancid Live in London, Free Download

Rancid - See ya in the pit (Live bootleg) (US)
Live concert from London 1995

Its a free Download Bootleg that Rancid themself gives away.

Sodomy Soldiers - Religion & Guns

Sodomy Soldiers - Religions & Guns (Swe)

West Coast Riot 2013 canceled

Swedens best and biggest punk rock festival West Coast Riot will take a pause during the summer of 2013.
After some sucessful festivals, especially with the summer of 2012´s ultimate line up with Rancid as the main band, the festival think they havn´t been able to get a line up that will match their standards. So they will go for the summer of 2014 instead.

1,2, FUCK YOU PUNK REVIEW feared and thought it was to come. How on earth could they follow up the success  of last summer? Still Im not too pleased with the absent of the summers top event.

Record Releases Winter Spring 2013

After a tremendous punk live concert year (At least from my Swedish Stockholm point ot view) we can now look forward to a great? year of record releases?
I will keep on updating the way I have the time to do it.

Recordreleases 2013, stay tuned for updates.

8th (Irl/UK) 9 (US/Can) 11(Global) of Januari  Dropkick Murphys (US) - Signed and sealed in Blood (Listen to it here)

22th of Januari Crash Diet (Swe) release party at Jan 30

6th  of februari   Attentat (Swe) - Fy Fan  (CD/LP) (Attentat was founded in 1978)


6th of March  Köttgrottorna (Swe) - (More info will follow)  (30 celebrate 30 years as a band)
Releaseparty at Debaser.


From what I heard we can look forward to releases from Vänsternäven, Rancid, Nej, (Possibly Ligisterna?), Nicola Sarcevic of Millencollin and more...

Best and Worst of 2012 (The 1,2, Fuck You List)

2012 I will remember as one of the best Punk Years ever. I doubt that I even back in the early 80ies during the punk and Oi! years saw as many good concerts as this. Both new fresh bands and old timers still going strong. There was both biiiiig events as the West Coast Riot festival and Dropkick Murphys, Iggy and the Stooges and The Hives filling up Gröna Lund to the max. As the were a few people showing up in a club or at Gula Villan for some amazing well played, whitty and hard punk. Infact there was so much going on that I missed some, didn´t had the energy to attend some.

What can we look forward to make it even better the next year? Well, the crowd could get bigger at many clubs. The bands deserve bigger crowds and you deserve to see theese bands.
There are new records comming next year with bands like Rancid, Vänsternäven and Dropkick Murphys. And Possibly will Ligisterna get it going as well. Not to mention all the bands that Im not aware of their struggle for the perfect mix for their next masterpiece, is Nej among those? Cheers all you Punx, Skunx, Muses, Chix, Skins, Progs, Metals and Others.

Tim and Lars from Rancid at WCR
Buy West Coast Riot Prints here

Best Concert
Rancid at West Coast Riot (Gothenburg)
Street Dogs at Debaser Slussen (Stockholm)



Best Concert Promotor/festival/club
West Coast Riot,
Pike

Best full length record 
Hyper Actives – Rock n Roll lives again

Best Single (Vinyl, CD or Digital)
The Dräperz – Välkommen till Råby

Records of other interests
Rebel Riot – Puppet Society (Full length CD)
Rancid – Fuck you (single)

Niklas of Ligisterna

Best bands

Rancid,

Street Dogs, 

Ligisterna, 

Asta Kask, 

Positive new discoveries

Rebel Riot (Bur), 

Louise Linggs and the Bombs (Fra),

Nej (Swe), 

Chix n Dix (Can)

Beorn of Nej

Best Singalongs

Mata asen med bly (Ligisterna), 

Staden Göteborg (Troublemakers), 

Ronka (Troublemakers)

Tobey Got a Drinking Problem (Street Dogs)

Iggy and the Stooges at Gröna Lund

Best Revivals

Alonzo and Fas3 (ex KSMB, Stockholms Negrer) , 

Bitch Boys, 

Iggy and The Stooges

Fjodor (Ex Ebba Grön) singing Staten och Kapitalet at Cellstock

Heaviest

Link (Bel)

Hardest 

Knark (Swe)

Ultimate Punk Heros

Pussy Riot (Rus)

Worst Disapointment

That I missed Hudson Falcons playing in Stockholm

Worst Let down

Social Distortion at Circus

Cellstock (Festival)

The Hives Live at Gröna Lund

Worst Pseudo Happening

The Refused reunion

Free Rancid Download

http://rancidrancid.com/news/2012/12/18/new-single-fuck-you-free-download/

New Rancid Song - Fuck You!

Rancid been on to make a new album, here is a first bite, a tasteful bite....pretty old school 77-kind off, pre punkish rock n roll. Looks promising!

The title is "Fuck You".

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Order big Photo prints of Rancid´s exxxellent concert in Sweden this summer here...http://rockfoto.nu/artists/rancid/20120726/17416/photos/136326

Rancid´s Lars Frederiksen in Inkedmag Interview

Q n A with Lars Frederiksen in Inkedmag

http://www.inkedmag.com/features/article/q-lars-frederiksen/page/1/#







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Rancid´s setlist at West Coast Riot 2012

Picture linked from GP

Radio

Roots Radicals

St. Mary

Journey to the End of the East Bay

Maxwell Murder

Last One to Die

East Bay Night

Dead Bodies

The 11th Hour

I Wanna Riot

Red Hot Moon

Hooligans

Old Friend

Nihilism

Black & Blue

Salvation

Bloodclot

Rejected

The Way I Feel

It's Quite Alright

Lock, Step & Gone

Olympia WA.

The Wars End

Something in the World Today

Adina

Hoover Street

Fall Back Down

Encore:

Time Bomb

Tenderloin

Listed M.I.A.

Ruby Soho

The day after I saw the light, walking in an occupied zone.

Note, this is ment to be ironic, if someone would miss that!

Anti-Flag among others become the Boss best friend,
Picture taken from the American Staff Blog by the Pittsburg Gazette  

The day after I saw the light aka Rancid at West Coast Riot I woke up in an occupied city. The Riot was over, now the troops of Bruce Springsteen fans invade. The media was already taken over, they cover every move the Boss take, Gothenburg have been declared as a vassal state to New Jersy. While deadly tired and happy punks check out at the hostel, the Springsteens fans check in. Not a Turbojugend to be seen today. Just people in Rancid, Anti Flag, Street Dogs tour T-shirts heading for the trains and busses. Its like a hostile takeover. The Punk refugees leaving the city. It starts already at the breakfast bufé. "Glory days" and other New Jersey tunes fill the air. Everywhere you turn in the city there are a Springsteen tune played in a stereo. There are Springsteen photo exhibitions and the news papers have the Boss visit at the punk concert on the frontpage. I had a few hours to kill before my train leaves so I walk withthe stream of people to the big soccer arena Nya Ullevi where the Boss shall have his Nurnberg rally. I walk right into the sound check. Born in the USA is played at an increadible volume. Its a take no prisoners operation the Boss are into. Already have his loyal followers started to line up, I don´t envy them, the heat were as bad as the day before. I understand them, I know what kind of ecstacy they are in for. I got mine last night. A few hundred meter away 12.000 or something Jehova Vitnesses have gathered for an gigant prayer session at the hockey arena Skandinavium. I can´t help thinking that they missed God, he was showing his face at the West Coast Riot last night. I saw the light. But I guess they might be pissed off because the Springsteen fans God are bigger than theirs. Or at least more attractive. Asta Kask however told us that God spoke to them and she was a pissed off black, lesbian woman.

I saw the light! a Review of the West Coast Riot

Find pictures from WCR here.

Bruce Springsteen checked out Against Me and Rancid

What did the Boss think of Rancids concert?

The Event

West Coast Riot is by any comparison Sweden´s biggest punk festival. Not the biggest rock festival, but the biggest just for punk. Fat Wreck record have dubbed it the best punk festival in the world….hm, I haven’t been to them all so, well…but anyway, it was one of the best festival I been to. Just the location this year, just at the sea side with the open sea in sight was stunning. And this year´s line-up was something extra. I havn´t bothered to go there the years before, but when I saw that Rancid was headlining, it was a must to go. And then one good band after another was added to the bill, I would say it was mandatory to attend. Good that people didn´t do that. It was enough with people as it was in the rather narrow festival area not really dimensioned for the size of the crowd. Normally it is just an empty spot next to the art museum Röda Sten. This sunny Thursday in July it was Heaven and Hell at the same time, at least hot as Hell.

The Crowd, the Museum and the Bridge


The Location

I have already been on about the marvelous placement by the seashore. The smell of the salty sea water made me in a good mood. It smelled like vacation, the Baltic Sea at Stockholm doesn´t smell as good.
The concert area was easily reached with the tram. According to some WCR veterans logistics was much better this year. It was surreal to spend the festival right under the huge bridge, Älvsborgsbron.
The only thing to complain about was that there was too few food tents so the lines was long, too long for me. I went outside the festival area for a Bratwurst. While eating it a Mohawk drunk decided to take a dump next to me, squatting down a few meters from me taking a shit. Well, that´s punk…or? It reminded me on a song we wrote in my band Streetwalking Jesus about the “Braune Bratwurst”. Enough of filth now.

The Crowd

There´s an expression about Gothenburg fellows, “Goa Gubbar” (Nice Lads), and that was a fact. The west coasters are so much friendlier and easy accessible that the east coast Stockholmers. It was like everybody was my best friend, or something. Not a meat head in sight. The bands was in for the same treat. Singalongs, mosh pitting, dancing, cheering from the first chord to the last. Rancid, Asta Kask, Street Dogs and Anti Flag pointed out that. The Swedish Punk veteran Alonzo took a photo of us in the crowd because he wanted to keep this moment in his photo book. Over all everyone was in a good mood, helping each other up when someone tripped in the sometimes rather wild mosh pits.


The Bands

Gatans Lag  
and Dystra Li

Both bands opened the festival in a tent each. The Oi! Skinhead band Gatans Lag didn´t take any prisoners. It was full aggression from the first chord. And the crowd was there. Dystra Li did show some hesitation. Maybe because their tent was much less attended then Gatans Lag´s. The playing time for all bands was rather tight so why waste it on doubts and “excuse us mentality” like Dystra Li did, The only disappointment this day. I ran back to Gatans Lag´s stage again to catch the last of it. Gatans Lag proved that their best song was "Skalla, sparka sluta aldrig slå". Not only because the Lyrics is venting some serious anger against the middle class that modern society is designed to please, the tune is catchy as well. This is the working class town of Gothenburg, welcome!

Asta Kask opening the main stage, Photo talen from Micke Blomqvist´s facebook

Asta Kask

Swedish punk legends Asta Kast got the honour to open at the main stage. It was as usual full throttle from the start. It took them only three chords to have me in the mosh pit. I am close to my 50ies now, beer bellied and with a strong refusal to both play Golf, get a Labrador or got to the gym. This was my exercise.
Best song? All of them, it´s hard to choose one.
The sound wasn’t perfect but fair enough. And Asta proved them self again, they are NOT any lame ass punk revival band, they got the punk in the blood and their hearts beating as fast as their drums.

Street Dogs

I was prepared to be a bit disappointed in Street Dogs after seeing them doing one of the best shows I ever seen, in Stockholm a few week ago. But I wasn´t let down. The Massachusetts lads showed that they master the fine art of Punk Rock. Best song? “Tobey´s got a drinking problem”, but all of they were as good. Rancid might be better because better tunes, but Street Dogs are terribly hard working leaving nothing to ask for.

Beer pause and some bands I didn’t cared for too much about.

After that I was onto a serious beer pause. A chat with both new found friends and some Stockholm people that’s in the Stockholm scene. Mr Kjell Hell, one of Sweden´s best punk bloggers told me sad news, that he didn´t update his blog any more. To bad.

In the background I hear Anti Flag, The sound is good, but they doesn´t have as good songs at the opening bands. I catch a bit of the end of their set and saw they were working as hard as the rest of the bands. And some thought they were great. I wasn´t expecting to much so there wasn´t any disappointment. The same goes for some of the other bands that I wasn´t too interested in or impressed by. And some bands was missed because they was playing at the same time as someone else. Gallows I should have seen, however, but you can´t have it all, can you?

Beer, sunlight, more beer, chatting, saying hello, just feeling fine I the heat. This is all what a vacation should be like.

Alonzo & fas 3

Next band was Alonzo & fas 3, the punk veteran Micke Alonzo was a singer in classic Swedish bands like KSMB and Stockholms Negrer, Micke´s vocals dominated the set or should I write his punk,top of the lung screaming. At the same time Against me played with The Boss, Bruce Springsteen and the E street Band in the audience. The Boss then stayed to watch Rancid´s excellent performance. At facebook, I later noticed, The Boss and Alonzo had a chat. About what? How to yell as a madman onstage? I´ll ask him next time I meet Micke.

Micke Alonzo entered the stage with barly any voice telling us to help him sing his songs. That he didn´t had to ask twice. Then the 50+ gentleman started to scream his lung out in a way that could scare even the most hardcore growler. The band seems a bit shellshocked at first and didn´t match the aggression Micke poured on stage. But they catched up and found themself and did a decent job in the end. OK, it was not like KSMB or Stockholms Negrer was back in the days. But fair enough. The new songs that I wasn´t too fond of on record, was excellent live. Best song? Tonight it was Atom Reggae, even if almost all his songs are a part of our proud Swedish punk history.

Picture taken from Rancids Facebook


Rancid

Then there was an end of a long wait. Not only that Rancid havn´t been here for ten years, and as one punk at the festival put it, the band we been following and liked for a long time but havn´t seen live. Also a long wait for the concert we were all there for. To be honest, this wasn´t a festival, it was a Rancid concert with a long list of great support acts. Almost all I spoke to was there for Rancid.

And then we met God. Divided into four entities
Tim, minus his iconc hat with his skull tattoo on display (shaved head) and a beard that made him look like he gonna join ZZ Top. Lars, with his new skin head look and with his constant pissed off look. Even when he expressed apreachiations he looked like he really ment to smash our faces in. Matt, the man who looks like he came directly out of the bowling alley, who´s fingers out speed most bass players around. And in the back Branden that took over Brett role in the band in an excellent way.


The four of them, with their different stage presents melt together to one big punk love that includes the crowd. I got the feeling that the security barriers annoys the band. Tim tries several times to build a bridge over it. And in the end they call up a guy from the front row to sing a song with them. Tim Armstrong just played his Gretch and let the boy sing it. Possible the moment of his life.


Me, the rest of the crowd, including Bruce Springsteen, the Swedish punk legends was in it for a holy moment. There was something beyond the music, their world class tunes that got me. I was in the mosh pit and singing along for the most part of the nearly two hours show. But there was something extra added to it just see them live, feel their mental enery. With the risk to sound like a hippy (like if I cared?), this was just what I in my wildest dream wished for but wasn´t expecting. How could I doubt in God? Best song? Well, I repeat myself here. All of them. but there was one line that refused to leave me after. “When I got the music, I got a place to go” from the Let´s Go CD. I looked at the face of God realizing that Tim not just sang it, he delivered the ultimate truth. The God incarnated in the bodies and music of Tim, Lars, Matt and Branden.


Turbonegro

After I was struck of a feeling of fulfillment, perfection and emptiness. Deadly tired, the beer was sold out, so a glass of wine had to do. Then one look into the tent where Turbonegro was up next as the closing band. a most unpleasant task if you ask me, was enough. Then I was on it a gain, when I got the music I got a place to go. The Turbojugend logo, the leather cap in Neon as a backdrop just made me wanna go and see them. The new singer that was to replace the egocentric Hank von Helvete, did an excellent job. Not as crazy and unpredictable as the good old Hank. But with a certain edge in the voice that was refreshing. Initially the sound was very good, at the end it was just loud. "All my friends are dead was the best song". The Turbo´s did steer the ship to the destination. They managed to do the impossible to match Rancid´s holy punk quest. If Rancid was the Light, Turbonegro brought us back to hell where you give them worms.

Finally

I was in heaven in a field hotter than hell. I saw the light it was great.

Worth the money? What a question! Just Rancid been worth the travel, the room, the expenses and the ticket of the ca 80 Euros. And I got all the other bands as well.


    

Tomorrow .....West Coast Riot, Yippie!

Rancid (US)

Asta Kask  (Swe)

Turbonegro (Nor)





Street Dogs (US)



And More.....

West Coast Riot, all stages all bands all where and whens!

Rancid - Liberty and Freedom

Rancid - Liberty and Freedom

From the album Let the Dominoes Fall (2009)