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Cover of Rancid - 2023 Reissue by Rancid.

Rancid

Rancid - 2023 Reissue

Epitaph

    Without any reminiscing about their former band Operation Ivy, Matt Freeman (bass) and Tim Armstrong (guitar/vocals) blast through their debut without any hints of ska or blatant Clash plagiarizing. On the contrary, this album rips through 15 tracks of high- energy punk that's accompanied by heavy bass leads and Armstrong's permanently slurred vocals.

    And to top it all off, the lyrical content deals with urban blight and the lifestyle of being a public nuisance. With this trademark sound, Rancid provides the perfect soundtrack for any car chase that includes massive property damage; is it a wonder MTV wouldn't touch this? -Mike DaRonco

    TRACK LISTING

    Adina
    Hyena
    Detroit
    Rats In The Hallway
    Another Night
    Animosity
    Outta My Mind
    Whirlwind
    Rejected
    Injury
    Climb In (The Bottle)
    Trenches
    Holiday Sunrise
    Unwritten Rules
    Union Blood
    / Get Out Of My Way

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    Cover of Tomorrow Never Comes by Rancid.

    Rancid

    Tomorrow Never Comes

    Epitaph

      Rancid - the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records

      Emerging from the blue- collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century.

      Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible -- start an even better band. Thus, Rancid. Signing with Epitaph Records, the band released their first album, "Rancid," in 1993. Shortly thereafter, Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar) joined the band and they went on to release incredible records from "Let's Go." (1994) to their classic - platinum selling "...And Out Come The Wolves." (1995). Drummer Branden Steineckert joined the band in 2003, cementing the line-up that rocks out till this day.

      Seeing Rancid live is a life changing experience and steady touring is in the plan for 2023. The band will tour Europe in June and the rest of the world soon after.

      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 embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you don't know all this by now -- you're not playing their music loud enough!

      TRACK LISTING

      Tomorrow Never Comes
      Mud Blood & Gold
      Devil In Disguise
      New American
      Tomorrow Never Comes 
      Don't Make Me Do It
      It's A Road To Righteousness
      Live Forever
      Drop Dead Inn
      Prisoners Song
      Magnificent Rouge
      One Way Ticket
      Hellbound Train 
      Eddie The Butcher
      Hear Us Out
      When The Smoke Clears

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      Cover of Expendables by Fake Names.

      Fake Names

      Expendables

      Epitaph

        Composed of Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Dag Nasty), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace), Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, INVSN, The International Noise Conspiracy), Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys, Soulside) and the newest member Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring), the band is a veritable posthardcore dream team. However instead of rehashing the past, Expendables is a reinvention that sees the band dialing back the distortion and leaning into the melodies. The result pairs their unparalleled pedigree with a pop sensibility that's slightly unexpected and wholly satisfying. "For our last record [2019's FAKE NAMES]the general influences were 70's U.K. punk and power-pop; but it wound up with a little classic rock vibe as well, like the Vibrators meets Aerosmith. We never saw that coming!" , Baker explains. For Expendables the band enlisted producer Adam "Atom" Greenspan (IDLES, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Baker explains, "The pop influences are a little more out front on this one and the production really helps it shine. It sounds more direct, more urgent." Expendables is the latest exchange in a musical conversation that spans four decades. Baker aptly refers to the lineup of FAKE NAMES as a "mutual admiration society" and says that once the five members got in the same room together, it felt as if they had already been in the band together for years.

        TRACK LISTING

        Targets
        Expendables
        Delete Myself
        Go
        Dont Blame Yourself
        Cant Take It
        Damage Done
        Madtown
        Caught In Between
        Too Little Too Late

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        Cover of How Could Hell Be Any Worse by Bad Religion.

        Bad Religion

        How Could Hell Be Any Worse

        Epitaph

          How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, their second record and first LP is nothing short of genius. Shattered-glass guitar riffs, fast, furious drums, and a 16 year old Greg Graffin's voice for the ages. The coalescence of lyrical intellect and savage music make for a sound seldom (if ever) heard before. The impact of this record still resonates to this day. Classic tracks like Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell, American Dream, and The Voice Of God Is Government are as crucial and socially lucid as the day they were created in a southern California garage. When the greatest punk records of all-time are discussed, How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is sure to be mentioned.

          TRACK LISTING

          We're Only Gonna Die
          Latch Key Kids
          Part III
          Faith in God /
          Fuck Armageddon..This Is Hell
          Pity
          In The Night
          Damned To Be Free 
          White Trash (2nd Generation)
          American Dream
          Eat Your Dog
          Voice Of God Is Government
          Oligarchy
          Doin Time

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          Cover of Think Of Spring by M. Ward.

          M. Ward

          Think Of Spring

          Epitaph

            “I first heard Lady In Satin in a mega-shopping mall somewhere in San Francisco. I was about 20 years old and didn’t know much about Billie’s records or her life or how her voice changed over the years. Anyway, the sound was coming from the other side of the mall and I remember mistaking her voice for a beautiful perfectly distorted electric guitar - some other-world thing floating there on this strange mournful ocean of strings and I was hooked for life. Ten years later in 2006 I recorded an electric guitar instrumental version of “I’m A Fool To Want You” for my album Post-War. In 2018 I performed a concert in LA. of all the songs from Lady In Satin as a quintet and began preparing guitar arrangements for the recordings compiled on this record - Think of Spring. The title comes from a poem written in 1924 by Jane Brown-Thompson that eventually became “I Get Along Without You Very Well” in 1938 - the first song here. The conceit of Think of Spring is to filter the songs and strings from Lady In Satin through a single acoustic guitar using various alternate tunings and a minimal amount of textures and studio manipulation. most of the songs were recorded on an analog Tascam four track. Think of Spring is inspired by Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis, J.J. Johnson, John Fahey and Robert Johnson. Proceeds from this record will benefit Inner-City Arts & Donors Choose via PLUS1 for Black Lives Fund.” - M. Ward

            TRACK LISTING

            I Get Along Without You Very Well
            For Heavens Sake
            It’s Easy To Remember
            You’ve Changed
            Violets For Your Furs
            For All We Know
            But Beautiful
            All The Way
            I’m A Fool To Want You
            I’ll Be Around
            You Don’t Know What Love Is

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            Cover of Fake Names by Fake Names.

            Fake Names

            Fake Names

            Epitaph

              In early 2016, D.C. punk legends Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion) and Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace, One Last Wish) met up at Hampton’s Brooklyn home to play music together.

              Friends since first grade, the two guitarists ended up writing a handful of songs that day, then closed out the session with a spur-of-the-moment decision to start a band.

              When it came to finding a bassist, Baker and Hampton looked to Johnny Temple of Girls Against Boys and Soulside (another fellow student at their elementary school), who equally shared their passion for what Temple refers to as “loud, angry, visceral music”. By the end of the year, the band had enlisted Refused frontman Dennis Lyxz n as their singer, thus cementing the lineup to punk-rock supergroup Fake Names.

              Soon after dubbing themselves Fake Names a moniker that’s part Raising Arizona reference, part recognition of the “ubiquitous and demonic use of the term ‘fake news’”, according to Baker the band headed to Renegade Studios with the goal of creating a demo to present to record labels. But after playing those recordings for Baker’s Bad Religion bandmate Brett Gurewitz, the Epitaph founder made an unexpected proposal. “Brett said to us, ‘This isn’t a demo, this is the album,’” Baker recalls. “He was pretty adamant about putting it out exactly as it was, so that’s what we wound up doing”

              TRACK LISTING

              All For Sale
              Driver
              Being Them
              Brick
              Darkest Days
              Heavy Feather
              First Everlasting
              This Is Nothing
              Weight
              Lost Cause

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              Cover of The Universe Inside by The Dream Syndicate.

              The Dream Syndicate

              The Universe Inside

              Epitaph

                When one thinks of the Dream Syndicate, it’s not just the wild abandon with which singer/guitarist Steve Wynn, drummer Dennis Duck, bassist Mark Walton, and lead guitarist Jason Victor perform - it’s the carefully constructed songwriting of Wynn that comes to mind.

                By now every rock critic in the country has predetermined who he or she feels Wynn reminds them of and what they think of that style of songs. This time, don’t! Which brings us to The Universe Inside. Every article or review ever written will claim “this is new and different” - well, it is! Just look at the song lengths: 20:27, 7:36, 8:56, 9:55 and 10:53. Ok, sure - the Syndicate have occasionally committed a long song to vinyl, “John Coltrane Stereo Blues” was 9 minutes with live versions over the ten-minute mark.

                For the first time, every song is a group songwriting effort. What seeps in are Dennis Duck’s knowledge of European avant-garde music, Jason Victor’s passion for 70s prog, Mark Walton’s experience in Southern-fried music collectives and Wynn’s love of vintage electric jazz. The dazzling display of album cover artwork alone should clue you into the changes. But don’t take our word for it. Dive in!

                TRACK LISTING

                The Regulator
                The Longing
                Apropos Of Nothing
                Dusting Off The Rust
                The Slowest Rendition

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                Cover of Migration Stories by M. Ward.

                M. Ward

                Migration Stories

                Epitaph

                  A prolific writer, producer and performer, M. Ward has established himself as one of modern American music’s most unique and versatile voices. For his tenth album he journeyed to Quebec, Canada to work with Arcade Fire’s Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, producer/mixer Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine) and Teddy Impakt. Together at Arcade Fire’s Montreal studios they recorded a collection of 11 songs inspired by stories of human migration.

                  M. Ward’s music has always felt intricate, intimate and other worldly. With Migration Stories he breathes beautiful life into vignettes of human flight, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy as it reckons with a world that feels more divided than ever before, even as its inhabitants grow more inextricably linked by the day.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Migration Of Souls
                  Heaven’s Nail And Hammer
                  Coyote Mary’s Traveling Show
                  Independent Man
                  Stevens’ Snow Man
                  Unreal City
                  Real Silence
                  Along The Santa Fe Trail
                  Chamber Music
                  Torch
                  Rio Drone

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                  Cover of Star Wars by Wilco.

                  Wilco

                  Star Wars

                  Epitaph

                  The Chicago (US) band Wilco presents Star Wars, the Grammy-award winning band’s ninth studio album and its first since 2011’s The Whole Love. 

                  Wilco has been a pioneer of pre-releasing albums and making its music available for free since 2001 when the band streamed its breakthrough release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The decision to make Star Wars available quickly and for free continues to see the band exploring new ways to release its music and reach its fans, while keeping the album release process fun and interesting to its members.

                  "Why release an album this way and why make it free? Well, the biggest reason, and I'm not sure we even need any others, is that it felt like it would be fun,” Tweedy said. “What's more fun than a surprise? Enough of this 20th anniversary already, here's something fresh.”

                  The new album was recorded at the band’s Chicago loft and features 11 original Wilco-penned tunes.

                  “Star Wars sounds like a band having an absolute blast with both the pop music form and the ways in which we hear it.” (4/5 – THE GUARDIAN)

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1.EKG
                  2.More...
                  3.Random Name Generator
                  4.The Joke Explained
                  5.You Satellite
                  6.Taste The Ceiling
                  7.Pickled Ginger
                  8.Where Do I Begin
                  9.Cold Slope
                  10.King Of You
                  11.Magnetized

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                  Cover of My Shame Is True by Alkaline Trio.

                  Alkaline Trio

                  My Shame Is True

                  Epitaph

                  Cult punk rock heroes, Alkaline Trio return with ‘My Shame Is True’, their most dynamic album to date. In anticipation of the release, the band have debuted a brand new single ‘I Wanna Be Warhol’ from the forthcoming album.

                  Recorded with Bill Stevenson of punk legends The Descendents and Black Flag and with Jason Livermore at the producers’ Blasting Room Studios in Colorado, ‘My Shame Is True’ pushes the band into new musical terrain while embracing their classic Trio sound. The album contains 40 minutes of passionate punk-filled rock that showcases guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba, bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano and drummer Derek Grant at their absolute best.

                  "We're very proud of it,” says Matt Skiba. “Once we got in the studio, the songs really took on a shape of their own.”

                  From the album’s first melodic opener ‘She Lied To The FBI’ to the first single, ‘I Wanna Be A Warhol’ the Trio waste no time setting the tone for their energetic, hook-filled, eighth studio album. For the first time ever on an Alkaline Trio record, ‘My Shame Is True’ finds a guest appearance from Rise Against’s Tim Mcllarth on rousing punk rock anthem, ‘I Pessimist’, while songs like ‘I’m Only Here To Disappoint’ and album closer ‘Till Death Do Is Part’ remind fans of classic Trio, with stellar song-writing and catchy choruses.

                  Determined to never make the same record twice, Alkaline Trio have preserved the most electric elements of their collaborative songwriting abilities while pushing ahead creatively and as a band. With multiple world tours, numerous chart successes, and over fifteen years under their belt, the dark punk trio have cemented their legacy with ‘My Shame Is True’.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1 She Lied To The FBI
                  2 I Wanna Be A Warhol
                  3 I'm Only Here To Disappoint
                  4 Kiss You To Death
                  5 The Temptation Of St Anthony
                  6 I Pessimist
                  7 Only Love
                  8 The Torture Doctor
                  9 Midnight Blue
                  10 One Last Dance
                  11 Young Lovers
                  12 Until Death Do Us Part

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