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“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

Rancid know how to pack an album. Each of the band’s seven full-length releases has roughly 20 songs, and they typically clock in at more than an hour. And while not every song in the Berkeley ...

“Me and my son have a little ritual: listening to Joe Strummer in the morning, his solo records. He loves that,” Frederiksen said. “I put on the Ramones, though, and he starts going crazy ...