Last fall, guitarist Noodles told Junkee that THE OFFSPRING had been contemplating releasing all of its new music on two separate albums. We didn’t get dropped, we just finished! But then we took a couple of years off because I wanted to go back to school, but now it’s, like, ‘We’re back! Anybody want to sign us up?” We’ve got to be the only band that’s ever finished out a record contract without being dropped by their record label.

“We were on Sony ever since ‘Ixnay ’ - and we finished out our contact,” he said. We have a lot of really fast stuff on there, plus a couple of things that you might not really expect from us.”ĭexter also confirmed that THE OFFSPRING was without a record label and was looking into various options about how to make its new music available to the masses. “I guess it’s punk rock, but then we throw in a couple of songs that aren’t what you’d normally predict. That’s what I’m supposed to say, right? I don’t really know how to describe it,” he said. This past March, singer Dexter Holland told U.K.’s Kerrang! magazine that THE OFFSPRING‘s new album “sounds like our old shit. And I think we might hold a couple of those funner, ‘Pretty Fly ’ songs back for maybe the next record.” So we ended up working on more OFFSPRING-sounding songs to fill out the record. We’re playing another song live, called ‘It Won’t Get Better’.

And essentially, that’s the first single off the record.

Pressed about the musical direction of the new OFFSPRING material, Noodles said: “ ‘Coming For You’, that’s essentially the first single - we released that about four years ago now. He’s great - he’s the coolest guy ever - and we just work really well together with him.” making plans for photo shoots and videos. The follow-up to 2012’s “Days Go By” was once again produced by Bob Rock, who also worked on the band’s last two LPs.Īsked by the iHeartRadio Canada for an update on the new disc, guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman said (see video below): “It’s done. THE OFFSPRING Is ‘Making Plans For Photo Shoots And Videos’ To Promote New Album, Says NOODLESĬalifornia rockers THE OFFSPRING recently completed work on their long-awaited tenth album.

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