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“I flew to his funeral in England, and I delivered a eulogy. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do”: Billy Morrison on collaborator and best friend Ozzy Osbourne, his partnership with Steve Stevens, and his all-star new album

Hollow features guest spots from Dexter Holland, Nuno Bettencourt, Duff McKagan, and more, with a credits list that reads like a who’s who of rock royalty

Guitar World · Aug 8

Electric Callboy hit the apex of their dance-metal era on floor-filling new album Tanzneid – with a little help from Babymetal and The Offspring: “It may not represent a dramatic reinvention, but it doesn’t need to”

The electronicore six-piece double down on everything that’s made them festival crowd-pleasers

Metal Hammer · Aug 5

My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce The Veil to headline Aftershock festival 2026; The Offspring, Queens Of The Stone Age, Babymetal and more than 130 other acts also confirmed

The Sacramento festival will return to Discovery Park from October 1 to 4

Metal Hammer · Mar 4

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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

Louder · Feb 11

Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup

Hellfest has announced another epic lineup for next year

Metal Hammer · Nov 10, 2025

"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

Metal Hammer · Nov 14, 2024

Blink-182, Panic! At The Disco, Avril Lavigne, Weezer, All Time Low, The Offspring and many more announced for When We Were Young 2025

When We Were Young festival 2025 is packing another monstrous lineup of pop punk, emo and alt rock superstars

Louder · Oct 29, 2024

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"All of a sudden, things went mad!": Motörhead's Overkill, the album that changed everything - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Jack Russell, Nikki Sixx, The Offspring, Myles Kennedy, Bill Wyman, Tuk Smith, Howlin' Wolf, MC5, The Damned, Steve Howe and more

Louder · Oct 11, 2024

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 · Oct 8, 2024

“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 · Oct 3, 2024

“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 · May 28, 2024

“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 · May 21, 2024

"I was so ****ed they called it punk!" Kerry King reveals the pop punk legends he's excited to see live this summer - even if he doesn't always agree with their genre label

Kerry King explains why punk hasn't evolved and thrash metal probably won't

Metal Hammer · May 4, 2024

Godsmack, Shinedown, Killswitch Engage, The Offspring, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, Poison The Well, Machine Head and more for Inkcarceration Festival 2024

Inkcarceration have announced their lineup for 2024, with dozens of new additions joining Chimaria and Bad Omens

Metal Hammer · Feb 7, 2024

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Guitar World · Jun 27, 2023

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

Metal Hammer · Apr 25, 2023

A beginner's guide to 90s punk in 5 essential albums

A brief history of how punk broke into the mainstream (again), charted by the albums that defined the era

Metal Hammer · Apr 6, 2023

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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