The Offspring return with Days Go By, their ninth album, as well as the first to feature drum work from newest drummer Pete Parada. Plagued…
The Offspring – Days Go By (2012)

The Offspring return with Days Go By, their ninth album, as well as the first to feature drum work from newest drummer Pete Parada. Plagued…
The Offspring’s self-titled debut album is a rawer, harder-edged collection than their breakthrough set, Smash, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a…
Ignition is the second studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was the second Offspring album produced…
The Offspring’s second album for Epitaph did the impossible: it landed in the Top Five, unheard of for independent records. The Offspring crossed over due…
The Offspring may have been a product of the Southern California hardcore scene, but their instincts have always been more metal than…
With integrity intact and a hearty combination of poppy punk and wit throughout, the Offspring’s fifth album is a raucous ride through…
It’s more mixing of stylized punk revival and hybridism with left-field musical experimentation and in-the-now pop culture lyrical references on…
It’s not that the Offspring sound behind the times on their eighth album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace — it’s that they sound disconnected…
When Green Day’s first album appeared, anyone predicting that fame, MTV, top-selling albums, and more would be on the horizon in the near future…
Green Day’s second full album was the perfect dry run for the band’s later assault on the mainstream, containing both more variety and more…
Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave…
Dookie gave Green Day success, but it was never really clear whether they wanted it in the first place. However, given the incessantly catchy songwriting
Following the cool reception to Insomniac, Green Day retreated from the spotlight for a year to rest and spend time with their families. During that extended…
By 2000, Green Day had long been spurned as unhip by the fourth-generation punks they popularized, and they didn’t seem likely to replicate…
It’s a bit tempting to peg Green Day’s sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album…
Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day’s show at the…
American Idiot was a rarity of the 21st century, a bona fide four-quadrant hit, and it turned Green Day into something it had never been before…
Swapping gothic pomp for metallic power pop, My Chemical Romance may streamline their excesses on Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys…