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Green Day and Rancid: Maximum Rock'n'Roll!

Susan Corrigan, i-D, January 1996

With their technicolour mohicans and tattoos, Green Day and Rancid are bringing teen spirit to a generation of Americans who weren't even born when the Sex Pistols split up. Why is punk rock alive and unwell in the USA?

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