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"Ruby Soho" is a song by the American punk rock band Rancid. It was released as the third and final single from their third album, ...And Out Come the Wolves. The song reached number 13 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. Spin listed the song on their list of the 95 best alt-rock songs of 1995.
"Stranger than Fiction" is a song by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featured on their 1994 album with the same title.
True North is the sixteenth studio album by the California punk rock band Bad Religion, which was released on January 22, 2013. After touring in support of their previous album The Dissent of Man (2010), Bad Religion began writing new material for an album that was planned for release in 2012. During their 2011 tour, frontman Greg Graffin stated that Bad Religion would make "one more album and then all join the navy, do honest work", which led to speculation that they were breaking up, although this turned out not to be the case. The recording sessions took place in July and August 2012 at Joe's House of Compression, a studio owned by Joe Barresi, who produced the album.
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- ↑ "Bad Religion: Punk Rock Song" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
- ↑ "Bad Religion – Punk Rock Song" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
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