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“Everything’s changed. We’re going to be rich.” How a song about gang wars helped a Ph.D. student and a school janitor become the '90s most unlikely rock stars

The story of the song that helped launch the biggest independently-released rock album of all time

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The Offspring say world has to get used to AI as it's 'here to stay'

The Offspring are speaking out on the pros and cons of artificial intelligence.

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"I couldn’t believe no one had done a song about a white guy trying to be gangsta": The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success

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Best punk band of all time according to The Offspring? Creedence Clearwater Revival...

The Offspring's Dexter Holland picks his G.O.A.T punk band – and it's not the answer anyone expected

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'Playing music keeps us young': The Offspring explain why Mick Jagger appears fitter than age twin Joe Biden

The Offspring have suggested playing music is the secret to feeling young.

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The Offspring announce 2025 UK headline tour

Pop punk legends The Offspring will hit the UK next year!

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“Viruses are cool. They’re cool because they’re so gnarly. It’s Darth Vader stuff.” The Offspring's Dexter Holland talks about viruses like other people talk about their favourite band or football team, and he actually makes them sound pretty punk

Doctor Bryan Keith 'Dexter' Holland, Ph.D., gets very excited talking about viruses, and his passion is kinda contagious

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The Offspring on the US: ‘Before we couldn’t agree on issues, now we can’t agree on facts’

With Nineties hits like ‘Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)’, the California outfit helped define the future sounds of pop-punk. Ahead of the release of their 11th album, Dexter Holland and Noodles sit down for coffee and biscuits with Kate Solomon

The Independent UK

“We actually pooled all our money, the whole band fund, and we were able to afford one cabinet and one amp to share – even the guitar was borrowed!”: The Offspring’s Dexter Holland recalls recording the landmark Smash on its 30th anniversary

The punk rock frontman also gives us the low-down on the new album SUPERCHARGED chasing down Queen legend Brian May, and issues a come get me plea to Ed Sheeran

MusicRadar

On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’

The long read: I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved

The Guardian - UK

“I used to pretend to be in their band in the mirror and sing along to the album when I was nine”: Ed Sheeran picks up an electric guitar for a high-octane appearance with The Offspring

Ed Sheeran brandished his Lowden GL-10 and an Offspring tee as he joined the band for a special rendition of Million Miles Away

Guitar World

“I put this riff on it, which people are telling me is the birth of thrash metal or something”: Queen’s Stone Cold Crazy comes full circle with a live punk rendition by The Offspring and Brian May

Brian May also joined The Offspring on stage and put his own spin on their 1997 hit Gone Away

Guitar World

The Offspring's Smash Album Celebrates 30 Years Of Punk Rock

Explore the impact of The Offspring's 'Smash' album, a timeless classic in punk rock history.

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"I read an article where you said it was awkward cos you were more famous than us": watch The Offspring's Dexter Holland interview the actor from the Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) video

The Offspring singer caught up with Guy Cohen a few years later in New York

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The Offspring's Noodles on why he picks Ibanez Talmans over Les Pauls – and that time he played James Hetfield's Explorer

One of punk-rock's most distinctive lead guitarists on why mistakes make the best riffs, the unlikely vintage guitar that's his no. 1 electric for recording, and how super-producer Bob Rock shook up the band's gear habits on Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

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The story behind The Offspring's Smash: How a school janitor, a college nerd, a $5000 video and 11 million album sales turned the music industry upside down

Released on April 8, 1994, The Offspring's third studio album is the biggest-selling rock album ever released by an indie label. Here's how Dexter Holland, Noodles and co. Smash-ed it

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