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Ska has a rich history, and the Interrupters are leading the charge for the new gen. The band open up about their most personal album yet, In The Wild.

Kitchen Mouse is Highland Park’s acclaimed vegan and vegetarian restaurant. Here’s how former F-Minus member Erica Daking built the eatery from the ground up.

The Interrupters have shared their new single “Jailbird.” The track is from their upcoming album, In The Wild.

The Interrupters have shared a new track, “Anything Was Better.” The release is the second single from their forthcoming album, In The Wild. The 14-track record will drop Aug. 5 via Hellcat/Epitaph Records. Read more: Motionless In White, the Interrupters and 7 other things you need to check out this week “Anything Was Better” is […]

The Interrupters have announced a new album, titled In The Wild. The record is set for release Aug. 5 via Hellcat/Epitaph Records. They’ve also released the lead single, “In The Mirror,” with an accompanying music video. Read more: Flogging Molly and the Interrupters announce co-headlining summer tour Aimee Interrupter spoke about the inspiration behind the song […]

As the new century’s first decade unwound, things evolved or deteriorated rapidly, depending on your perspective. The entire world was changing in every aspect. So of course, punk rock was gonna change with it. The fundamentalists would scream and moan about how these changes weren’t punk at all, that we needed to go back to […]

Top 15 punk albums of 1998? You’d be forgiven for thinking that there weren’t any in the year the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal dominated the news. A quick perusal of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles of the year sees domination by several R&B (Destiny’s Child, Janet Jackson, Usher, Mariah Carey) or hip-hop (Puff Daddy, Master P, […]

Don’t be fooled: HE Creative are doing exactly what you think they’re doing when you glance over their Instagram feed for the first time—creating a normalized space for punk rock, female empowerment, diversity and more. Designed in various shades of muted hues, HE Creative are using their creative design studio as a means to elevate […]

1997: All media is declaring the alternative–rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was over in their eyes, too. That selfsame media could not have been more wrong. Green Day had just issued their fifth album, Nimrod. The Offspring, the band who made the catchphrase […]

Some promo copywriter at the Clash’s American label, Epic Records, came up with the questionable slogan “19 songs by the only band that matters” for the sticker that appeared on the face of 1980’s U.S. release of London Calling. While singer/guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon didn’t […]

The 1990s started out with DS-1 distortion pedal grunge bands viciously stomping on the global spandex-wearing hair-metal movement from the decade before and ceremoniously ended with the rise of the baggy-pant rockers of nü metal and bleached-blond boy bands with chiseled faces, courtesy of TRL. However, some incredible acts and songs fell under the radar […]

Rancid …Honor Is All We Know Before we go any further: Yes, …Honor Is All We Know, the first Rancid album in nearly six years, absolutely rules. But did any of you Rancid-heads out there ever have any doubt? Now let us tell you why it rules… The one big expectation with Berkeley’s favorite (or […]

The Interrupters The Interrupters If ska music is due for a fourth wave, then the Interrupters could be the band to jump-start it. Produced by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, it’s clear that The Interrupters takes a few notes from ska-punk’s founding fathers. Frontwoman Aimee Interrupter (aka Aimee Allen) brings her raw and gritty vocals to the […]

Rancid has launched streams of their entire catalogue on their new website in conjunction with their twentieth anniversary–it includes all of their studio albums as well as the B Sides And C Sides compilation. Check it out here.

In conjunction with their twentieth anniversary as a band, Rancid has released a new montage set to “Out Of Control,” a track from their 2003 LP Indestructible. Check it out below. The band will be releasing their eighth full-length later this year.

Hellcat Records will be reissuing legendary ska-punk outfit Operation Ivy's debut EP Hectic on vinyl Apr. 17. A pre-order has been launched here. THe EP was originally released in 1988 by the now officially defunct Lookout Records. Hellcat reissued the band's lone full-length, Energy, in 2007. Op Ivy frontman Jesse Michaels has since resurfaced in […]

Civet Love & War The second Hellcat release from Civet is a raging dose of rockin’ punk that will appeal to Social Distortion and Joan Jett fans alike. Frontwoman Liza Graves roars like Jett with a migraine, and her three bandmates—guitarist Suzy Homewrecker, bassist Jacqui Valentine and drummer Roxie Darling—keep the music driving forward with […]