The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Rancid always aim to end their albums with an exclamation mark, and “Coppers” is one of the biggest. What is it about Rancid and last tracks? The guys imagine certain album enders and the idea that if it was they were the last songs Rancid ever released, they’d go out on a massive high. Even so, “Coppers” is special and improbable, but w...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. We finally take a look at Troublemaker, Rancid's most recent album, and an unexpected return to form. The episode devolves into an album review a bit but give us a break we have been holding back on this one for a while. Is Troublemaker pound for pound better than...Indestructible? Rancid 93? Hard to say. Listen to this confounding album...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. “Olympia, WA” is one Rancid’s highest highs, but the guys wonder what, exactly, makes this song so remarkable? How did Tim capture such a specific, ephemeral feeling in the most Tim-way possible? The guys talk about the myth of Olympia in their formative years while confusing themselves about where the hell this song actually takes place...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The final track of a Rancid album is always very impactful, this week we inspect the one time Rancid closed out an album with a cover. We both dive into The Uptones and are delighted by what we find. Maybe our mental histories of Bay Area indie punk and ska are more limited than we thought? Song of the Week: Get Outta My Way - https://ww...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. This week, Brad picks a b-side from the “Life Won’t Wait” era, and the guys wonder what the decision making process was like when putting the album together. Why did a song this good get cut? Was it the right call? How many actual versions exist? Then they dive deep into what collecting b-sides used to mean and how that concept has compl...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. For the first time since starting the pod, new music was released featuring Tim Armstrong. So we dive into the Interrupters, the band bringing ska and hellcat records back to the mainstream. Previously Tim was a co-songwriter on many of the Interrupters songs and such they came off like bubblegum Rancid. This new album was mostly written...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Going back into Rancid 2000, the guys dig into the real tipping point track from the record, “Poison.” The combination of visceral intensity, 100 mph Matt Freeman runs, and a childlike, all-time hook is a microcosm for what makes it such an all-time album. Lyrically and vocally, Tim really pushes himself, but we still gotta ask, who the...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. We dive DEEP into 90s movie soundtracks as gateways to all sorts of interesting music. How amazing were the 90s in that they took a legit turn for the weird while still maintaining a mono-culture in the music industry? Was this track the canary in the coal mine for Rancid’s ska turn on AOCTWs? Two versions of the track and both are kind...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. For a lot of people - maybe even the guys on the right day - “Roots Radical” is THE Rancid song, and one of Lars’ crowning achievements. But why? And what is it that sets it apart from a handful of similar songs? And honestly, how many people got into Desmond Dekker because Tim mentioned him? Song of the Week - Roots Radical: https://www...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Our second ever guest Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers, solo artist, playwright…etc) has us jump deep into uncertain territory with Life Won’t Wait the title track from Rancid’s 1998 album. Many layers are peeled back: Were conspiracy theories and leftist music closer in the 90s? Is this track anti-semetic? Can you enjoy Buju Banton knowing what...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Jumping back into Rancid’s year 2000 reinvention with Axiom, a very strangely constructed track that is partially the best b-movie theme song ever but is probably just here to give Matt his second most famous bass solo. We dig into how catchy this album that is held up as the darkest and most hardcore in Rancid’s discography. Also Sam ge...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The guys finally dig into “Indestructible” from a sonic perspective with a song that is emblematic of the highs and lows of the album all wrapped in one. Rancid take chances that pay off but also manage to self-sabotage themselves. Where does this rank in the pantheon of Rancid ska songs? How good is that hook? Does Skinhead Rob have a v...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Rancid’s love of English rock is on full display this week, digging into their influences from The Who, Stiff Little Fingers and Sham 69. Lar’s projection of working class England onto his own Campbell upbringing is a continuing fascination for us. Musically, Leicester Square is one of the sharpest and angular pop-punk that Rancid has fl...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The guys dive into where it all started for Brad and Rancid, the opening track from “Let’s Go.” The guys find new ways to relate to Tim and reveal some of their personal struggles with the work they’ve done in music, and reality vs. perception of music scenes from a distance. Do these communities actually exist? If so, how do they form?...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Previously on 11th hour: Sam issued the challenge for Brad to find the best of 2009’s disappointing Let the Dominoes Fall album. On an album that the guys legitimately dislike, what is the shining jewel in the crap sandwich. After much debate and scientific research we land on “Up to No Good” a jaunty 80’s flavored skank fest with the ma...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The guys are joined by their first guest, experimental musician Josh Mason! Brad and Josh have had dozens of Rancid conversations in the last decade, so he picks a song and joins the fun. Can the three of them really talk about the 46-second intro clip for half an hour? Is it actually that interesting? You’d be surprised. RIP Lester Butl...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Life Won’t Wait returns to give us this banger of a soul rave-up. Sam is continuing to wear Brad down on the cult of LWW! Who knew there was a great Rancid song with horns with nary an upstroke or ‘pickitup’ in sight. Are they talking about being stuck in a stylistic rut? The puritanism of punk rock? The soul leach of L.A.? …or is it jus...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The guys dig into Rancid’s embrace of ska and how that opened up so many new avenues and possibilities for the band. This standout from “...And Out Comes the Wolves” has Tim at his whispery, vulnerable best and on-point Lars’ solos. Brad loves Matt’s basslines on the ska tracks especially even if his impression of them is circusy and Sam...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. This week the guys finally dust off the debut album from Rancid’s 1993 self-titled debut, recorded as a trio before Lars joined the band. “Rats in the Hallway” is a surprisingly angular blazer of a track, and one of Rancid’s prototypical formats - speaking about the squalor and pain of a lower class neighborhood - is born. Some real inve...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. As the guys dig into an underrated gem from “...And Out Come the Wolves,” a little more personal history is revealed and the hard questions get asked: What’s the verse? What’s the chorus? Does it matter? Does any of this matter? Song of the Week - Lock, Step, & Gone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vzicKAUTY Contact us at @rancidpod on...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. CW: Grooming. Our first song from 2003’s very contentious Indestructible. The guys finally address the elephant in the room, Tim Armstrong’s problematic relationship and divorce with The Distillers’ Brody Dalle via the miopic break-up anthem Fall Back Down. Brad and Sam dive into what it feels like to have deep parasocial love for an art...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. Finally the guys dig into Rancid 2000 and how it’s such a singular statement in Rancid’s discography. Then, Sam and Brad prepare to blow each other’s minds with controversial and perhaps absurd proclamations on the track... Will they agree? Will the podcast survive the bonkers take? Song of the Week - Let Me Go: https://www.youtube.com/w...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. This week the guys take a look at the oft maligned third songwriter Mr. Matt Freeman and Rancid’s 1994 sophomore album Let’s Go! Is Tenderloin pro sex worker? Can Brad handle Matt’s voice? What is the Mount Rushmore of Matt songs? Warning the chorus will be stuck in your head! Song of the Week - Tenderloin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. One of Sam’s sacred cows gets knocked off the list. Lars joins Rancid. Matt is on fire. Tim’s sincerity helps set Rancid apart from their peers. What is it that makes “Radio” such a classic? And why do Rancid keep getting in their own way? Song of the Week - Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMeGwdhOQFg Contact us at @rancidpod on tw...

The 11th Hour: A Rancid Podcast Presented by Foxy Digitalis. The boys dive into the unique beast that is 1998’s Life Won't Wait. Sam asserts some pretty hot takes on Lars songs. Tim is caught playing guitar on video! The big questions are posed: How much of our love of Rancid is projection? How do you love a band that is problematic? Why do two 40 year old guys that run experimental record labels...