Matt Freeman

Recordings

Crash Worship

The good-time ska of Berkeley's Dance Hall Crashers

Appetite for Resurrection

Aussie expat Brody Armstrong channels her miserable past into the glorious punk of the Distillers

Common Cause

Jesse Michaels didn't get the fame his former Operation Ivy bandmates did with Rancid, but he didn't lose his passion for ska-infused punk rock either

The House of Tudor

Jesse Michaels didn't get the fame his former Operation Ivy bandmates did with Rancid, but he didn't lose his passion for ska-infused punk rock either

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid

No Operation Ivy Reunion? Thank You, Jesse Michaels

Operation Ivy at 924 Gilman​Jesse Michaels, you have just earned yourself enough punk rock cred to fill a dirty van. (Or a four-door car, as the case may have been.)In an interview  with Jewcy, Michaels, singer of the short-lived-but-much-mythologized East Bay ska-punk band Operation Ivy, fro ... More >>

Rancid Bassist Matt Freeman Talks Devil's Brigade Project, Kids Songs, and Op Ivy Reunion

Matt Freeman has been a force in East Bay punk for more than two decades.​Just when it seemed like almost everyone in the big-time East Bay punk band Rancid has had a side project of their own except for bassist Matt Freeman, the 44-year-old bassist is today releasing Devil's Brigade, a long-in-th ... More >>

Rancid: Show Preview

Matt Freeman has been a force in East Bay punk for more than two decades.​Just when it seemed like almost everyone in the big-time East Bay punk band Rancid has had a side project of their own except for bassist Matt Freeman, the 44-year-old bassist is today releasing Devil's Brigade, a long-in-th ... More >>

An Albany Kid Reflects on Hometown Punks Rancid: "That's My America"

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

Saturday: Rancid Leads a Bay Area Punk Reunion at the Warfield

Rancid at the Warfield on Saturday.​ Rancid September 11, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Blasting Let's Go through a walkman on the bus to high school. The pit at Rancid's performance at the Warfield on Saturday was the kind of place where you make new friends and new enemies. Only a few so ... More >>