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 – The Offspring (1989)
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…
The Offspring – Ignition (1993)
Ignition is the second studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was the second Offspring album produced…
The Offspring – Smash (1994)
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 – Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
The Offspring may have been a product of the Southern California hardcore scene, but their instincts have always been more metal than…
The Offspring – Americana (1998)
With integrity intact and a hearty combination of poppy punk and wit throughout, the Offspring’s fifth album is a raucous ride through…
The Offspring – Splinter (2003)
It’s more mixing of stylized punk revival and hybridism with left-field musical experimentation and in-the-now pop culture lyrical references on…
The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)
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…
Green Day – 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1991)
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 – Kerplunk! (1992)
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 – Dookie (1994)
Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave…
Green Day – Insomniac (1995)
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
Green Day – Nimrod (1997)
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…
Green Day – Warning (2000)
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…
Green Day – American Idiot (2004)
It’s a bit tempting to peg Green Day’s sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album…
Green Day – Bullet in a Bible (2005)
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…
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
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…
My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2011)
Swapping gothic pomp for metallic power pop, My Chemical Romance may streamline their excesses on Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys…