Jerry Finn

Rancid Albums Ranked Worst To Best

Rancid have long bridged the gaps between underground and mainstream, between punk and ska, and they’ve brought fans and musicians from all musical walks of life together. Their albums vary from good to all-time classic, and here they all are ranked from worst to best…

Watch AFI play 'Sing the Sorrow' in full; long-awaited vinyl reissue is here

AFI played their classic ‘Sing the Sorrow’ in full for the ”first and last time ever” for its 20th anniversary, and also gave the album a very long-awaited vinyl reissue. Pre-order the red pinwheel variant here…

Sparta's 'Wiretap Scars' turns 20; Jim Ward discusses it in new interview with If It Kills You

After At the Drive-In split, Cedric and Omar formed The Mars Volta and the rest of the band formed Sparta. For its 20th anniversary, Jim Ward discusses Sparta’s debut album, working with Jerry Finn, musical influences, and much more…

blink-182's 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' turns 20 -- the tense turning point of their peak era

blink-182’s ‘Enema of the State’ followup found all three band members (and their management) trying to push the band in different directions, dealing with inner-band tension, and writing some of the best songs of their career in the process.

Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins debuts new video podcast with blink-182's Mark Hoppus (watch)

”So much of blink-182 is influenced by Jimmy Eat World,” Mark said on the show.

15 best blink-182 side project songs

Together, they were one of pop punk’s most unrivaled songwriting teams, but Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus also wrote some of their best music separately, outside of blink-182. For this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre,’ I run down the 15 best songs by blink-182 side projects.

AFI album guide - the essentials, the underrated & more

This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ takes a look at the rich discography of AFI, a highly unique band who evolved in interesting ways and defied easy categorization for nearly three decades.

blink-182 Albums Ranked Worst To Best

Even more so than Green Day, blink-182 were the single most important band in bringing punk to a wide millennial audience. In celebration of this band’s work, here’s a ranking of their albums from worst to best.

an interview w/ John Davis on Superdrag's reissued 'Head Trip In Every Key' & the new Lees of Memory LP (stream here)

We recently profiled nine underrated ’90s bands, one of which was Superdrag, who last month (August) reissued their second album, 1998’s ambitious and unfairly overlooked Head Trip In Every Key, along with a two-disc set of demos from the era, Jokers w/ Tracers, on SideOneDummy…

9 of the best '90s bands you didn't think were the best '90s bands and the awesome stuff they're doing now

It’s no secret that the ’90s are all the rage right now. The internet (and maybe even your real life) is filled with nostalgia for everything from Pogs to Nickelodeon cartoons to Tamagotchis and this reality check from The Onion that the ’90s weren’t only Pogs, Nickelodeon cartoons and Tamagotchis…