The Offspring

The Offspring return to the road after a four-year North American hiatus with a new tour, the California punk veterans said Tuesday. The trek kicks off on May 15 in Nashville and will... More »

(10/3/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- The Offspring has announced the name of their new drummer. He s Atom Willard, formerly of the punk act Rocket From The Crypt. Willard will appear with the band on their fall tour... More »

(9/12/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- Punk rockers the Offspring have officially changed the title of their upcoming new album to Splinter. The previous title, Chinese Democracy, had already been announced several... More »

(4/2/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- There s been various rumors flying around about the title of the new Offspring album, but it appears the band is planning to use the name Chinese Democracy. This is in spite... More »

(1/9/03, 4 p.m. ET) -- The Offspring, Rancid, Pennywise, Bad Religion, and NOFX are among the bands featured on Punk-O-Rama Volume 1, a DVD in stores February 25 from Epitaph Records. The disc features... More »

(11/8/02, 3 p.m. ET) -- Offspring guitarist Noodles has had a busy summer as a father, the buyer of a new home, and the founder of a new surf, skate, and music magazine. All my writing lately has gone... More »

(7/12/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- The Offspring, TSOL, and the Line will play Anaheim s House Of Blues on Saturday (July 13), in a benefit for They Will Surf Again and Life Rolls On, to raise money for a cure for... More »

(4/29/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- The Offspring and Social Distortion share the marquee at Tony Hawk s Boom Boom Huckjam, which debuts Saturday (April 27) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The Huckjam... More »

(3/9/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- The Offspring has been playing a few scattered shows recently. The band visited Russia and played the Recording Artists Coalition concert in Long Beach, California last month.... More »

(2/5/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- The Ramones tribute album, set for a spring release, is just about completed. The Offspring, Green Day, Rob Zombie, and Eddie Vedder are among the acts that have completed tracks... More »

(9/12/01, 3 p.m. ET) -- The attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. yesterday (September 11) come as no surprise to the Offspring s frontman, Dexter Holland. He s been thinking about terrorism for... More »

(7/6/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- The Damned, one of punk rock s seminal bands, is getting a helping hand from modern-day punk Dexter Holland of the Offspring. Grave Disorder, the forthcoming album by the Damned... More »

(11/15/00, 12 p.m. ET) - Fourteen-year-old Ashley Hitchcock ended up besting the other three finalist to win the One Million Dollar Giveaway sponsored by the Offspring Tuesday (November 14) in New York... More »

(11/3/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Days after MTV video censors allegedly put the kibosh on the first version of Stone Temple Pilots No Way Out comes news that the Offspring s Original Prankster has been sent back... More »

(11/3/00, 12 p.m. ET) - The Offspring just played a few U.K. shows before returning to America. The band will kick off a U.S. tour with MxPx and Cypress Hill on November 18 in Los Angeles -- four days... More »

(10/25/00, 7 a.m. ET) - The Offspring initially wanted to make their November 14 release Conspiracy Of One available as free downloads on its website, but the band s record company, Sony, nixed the idea... More »

9/22/00, 8 p.m. ET - The Offspring s plan to release its entire new album, A Conspiracy Of One, as free downloads on its own website (offspring.com) has been squelched by its record company, Sony Music... More »

(9/15/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Southern California punk band the Offspring has taken matters into its own hands by offering its entire next album, Conspiracy Of One, as free downloads. The group will first make... More »

(6/5/00, 6 p.m. ET) - The Offspring and Napster have worked out their differences regarding the sale of T-shirts and other products featuring the Napster name. In a joint statement released on Monday... More »

(4/26/00, 6 p.m. ET) - The Offspring have weighed in on the Napster controversy, joining Limp Bizkit in support of the company s digital music distribution software (LAUNCH, 4/25). We have been very... More »

(4/3/00, 10 a.m. ET) - The Offspring, Pennywise, X, and Social Distortion s Mike Ness are among the artists slated to perform at a concert in Irvine, California on May 6 to benefit the family of Ness... More »