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Armstrong produced and co-wrote eight songs with Pink for her 2003 album Try This. Her song, "Trouble", a 2003 Rancid outtake, went on to win her a Grammy Award. He has also contributed guest vocals on songs for such bands as Bad Religion, 7 Seconds, Time Again, the Matches, Mest, Good Charlotte, Head Automatica, the Aggrolites, the Interrupters, Cypress Hill, and Box Car Racer. He and Matt Freeman also play in a psychobilly band called Devils Brigade, and he co-produced their debut album.

It was announced on August 12, 2011, that Tim Armstrong was working on an album with reggae artist Jimmy Cliff. Their first single, a cover of the Clash song "The Guns of Brixton", was released on October 4, 2011. Sacred Fire EP was released late November 2011. Rebirth was released in July 2012 and won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. And in 2012, Armstrong wrote and performed on Joe Walsh's song "Hi-Roller Baby" from his solo album Analog Man. Armstrong also helped with Anti-Flag's song "Brandenburg Gate".

Though they share a last name and frequently collaborate, Armstrong and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong are not related. Green Day has covered Operation Ivy songs on their past albums, Billie Joe Armstrong co-wrote and performed on Rancid's song "Radio", and was invited by Tim Armstrong to join Rancid as a second guitarist in 1993. He declined, and Lars Frederiksen got the job. Tim directed the music video for Green Day's 2016 single "Bang Bang". He also plays a punk, seen during the song's bridge. In 2017, Tim Armstrong and Billie Joe Armstrong, together with Tim's nephew Rey Armstrong and Billie Joe's son Joey Armstrong, formed the band the Armstrongs and released their first single "If There Was Ever a Time".

Armstrong also co-produced the EP Footprints and Broken Branches in 2019 by the Los Angeles-based country musician Rosy Nolan along with Kenny Feinstein of the band Water Tower.

In May 2021, Armstrong along with fellow Rancid bandmate Matt Freeman, Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise), Byron McMackin (Pennywise), and Mike Muir (Suicidal Tendencies) formed a punk rock supergroup called the Crew. The band's first single, "One Voice", was released on Epitaph Records.

In August 2026, Armstrong joined Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, and CJ Ramone to perform as The Cretin Family to celebrate The Ramones' 50th anniversary.

Production discography

...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) by Rancid - (co-produced by Jerry Finn and Rancid)

Answer That and Stay Fashionable (1995) by AFI - (co-produced with AFI, Brett Reed and Doug Sangalang)

East Los Presents (1997) by Union 13

At Ease (1997) by The Gadjits

Life Won't Wait (1998) by Rancid - (co-produced with Lars Frederiksen)

F-Minus (2000) by F-Minus

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards (2001) by Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards

Mediocre Generica (2001) by Leftöver Crack - (co-produced with Stza)

Transplants (2002) by Transplants - (co-produced with Dave Carlock)

Try This (2003) by Pink - (co-produced with Billy Mann, Jonathan S. Davis, Damon Elliott, John Fields, William Orbit and Linda Perry)

Viking (2004) by Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards

Haunted Cities (2005) by Transplants - (co-produced with Dave Carlock, also exec. produced by Armstrong)

Hardcore 4 Life (2005) by Danny Diablo

The Stories Are True (2006) by Time Again - (executive produced with Time Again)

Decomposer (2006) by The Matches - (co-produced with Miles Hurwitz, Mark Hoppus, Matt Radosevich, John Feldmann, Mike Green, Johnny Genius, Ryan Divine, Nick Hexum and Brett Gurewitz)

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006) by John Roecker

Sound Soldier (2007) by Skye Sweetnam - (co-produced with The Matrix and Soulshock and Karlin)

Thugcore 4 Life (2007) by Danny Diablo - (co-produced with Dante Ross, John Morrical, Necro, Zuess, Lord Ezec and DJ Spae)

Devil's Brigade (2010) by Devil's Brigade - (co-produced with Ryan Foltz)

Sacred Fire EP (2011) by Jimmy Cliff

Analog Man (2012) by Joe Walsh – (co-produced with Jeff Lynne and Joe Walsh.)

Rebirth (2012) by Jimmy Cliff – Won Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album

The Interrupters (2014) by The Interrupters

Say It Out Loud (2016) by The Interrupters

Fight the Good Fight (2018) by The Interrupters

For the Cause (2018) by Madball

Internationally Unknown (2019) by RAT BOY - (co-produced with RAT BOY)

"Get Me Ready" (2023) song by Pepper

One More Time... (2023) by Blink-182 - (co-produced with Travis Barker)

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