Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It feels like The Offspring have lived many lives. Starting out as a scrappy Californian punk rock band ...
In February 1994, Brett Gurewitz was driving to his home in Studio City, California in his 1984 Volvo station wagon, listening to the final mixes of Smash, The Offspring’s forthcoming third album.
In 1994, two young, fast, loud and snotty bands took California punk to new melodic heights and unheard of levels of international exposure – and went multi-platinum in the process. In the year punk ...