New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) -
Rancid will perform their "triumphant" (Rolling Stone, 6.11.09) new single "Last One to Die" for the first time on national TV, on the newly launched
Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (NBC) June 10th. This exciting performance comes amidst a busy time for the "deservedly iconic" (Alternative Press, July 2009) quartet with this week's release of 'Let The Dominoes Fall', their "vital, topical" (USA Today, 6.2.09) first album in six years, and the launch a 33-city national tour with
Rise Against in Vancouver, BC yesterday.
The Los Angeles Times sat down with the band recently for this insightful feature: https://tinyurl.com/q4q4zu
"'Let The Dominoes Fall' proves the band's authority and durability. Sounding fresh and urgent as ever... they yank as many heartstrings as guitar strings."
- Edna Gundersen, USA Today, 6.2.09
"Our fave crusty NorCal punks blast their way through 19 catchier-than-scabies jams"
- Rolling Stone, 6.11.09
"The sunny brutalism of Rancid's East Bay ska-thrash has lost nary a step and their ethical-emotional rigor is as sweet as it is pure." - Jon Dolan, SPIN, June 2009
"A raging takedown of hard times. Rancid roars back to life after a six-year hiatus. 'Let the Dominoes Fall' reminds us that the right music can offer temporary salvation from any ill - be it political corruption, romantic destruction, or natural disaster."
- Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe (MA), 5.31.09
"But Rancid songs always have been built on big, immediate melodies, and Armstrong hasn't lost the leonine stage presence that can command a basement circle pit or a packed Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, as when the band headlined KROQ's Weenie Roast last month."
- August Brown, Los Angeles Times (CA), 6.4.09
"...19 songs that are as familiar as they are great, a kind of punk rock folk music that is filled with intimate signifiers that only long-established musical forms and scenes possess."
- Christopher Porter, Washington Post Express (DC), 6.2.09
"a sense of true musical growth... there are plenty of sonic left turns that will surprise longtime fans while enticing new listeners to harbor a new appreciation for Rancid.... the only punk band of their generation who still matters."
- Ron Hart, PopMatters.com, 6.2.09
