Tim Armstrong

L.A. Punk Legends X Are Still Scathing, Still on the Road

Goodbye, Lookout! Records: A Tribute in 10 Songs

You may have heard over the last few days that Berkeley's Lookout! Records -- one of the world's most treasured punk rock labels, and the place that Green Day got its start -- is closing for good, back catalog and all. If you were a punk rocker in the '90s, this news feels a little bit like losing a ... More >>

Music Links: The Night 20 Years Ago That Bill Graham Died, Tim Armstrong Working with Jimmy Cliff, and More

Ken ReganBill Graham​ A chilling first-person account of the night, 20 years ago, that Bay Area concert promoter Bill Graham died in a helicopter crash. [SF Gate] Rancid's Tim Armstrong is producing the next Jimmy Cliff EP. [SF Examiner]

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 >>

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 >>

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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington Leaves Journalism, Enters Investment World

Joi via FlickrWhat conflict?​It's the kind of story whose twists and turns make you realize why Twitter can be useful. TechCrunch's founder and coeditor, Michael Arrington, announced Thursday night that he'll be joining the investment world: He's starting a venture capital fund to invest in start ... More >>

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Please Let Me in the Bubble

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... 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 >>

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 >>

Pop-Punk Confessional

We've all thought about it, but one man finally went and confessed his love of pop-punk

BeatBox

Watered Down

From MTV to Rolling Stone, everyone loves the Distillers. Except us.

House Of Tudor

Wild psychobilly madmen, and campy incarcerated ladies

House Of Tudor

"Spanksgiving," psychobilly menace, and sweet calypso

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

Wammies 1996

Recordings

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid

Crash Worship

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