This article was originally published in 2019. It was updated in 2023 to include Rancid’s new album ‘Tomorrow Never Comes.’ Various Rancid records and merch available now in our store. We’re hitting the point in punk history where the bands who experienced mainstream success during the “punk revival” of the ’90s are starting to be considered as important, influential, and legendary as the classic bands that those bands were influenced by, and one of the most significant bands from that period is Rancid. As far as the divide between “punk” and “pop punk” goes, Rancid were always the best of both worlds. Their choruses were catchy enough to get them on the radio, MTV, and SNL alongside poppier peers like Green Day, but they we...
