MICK FLEETWOOD: ALEX SOLCA; THE OFFSPRING: DAVEED BENITO/PRESS; JERRY CANTRELL: TINA KORHONEN
CITING CALI PUNK godfathers like X and the Dead Kennedys – but spinning that influence into a more palatable racket – The Offspring sold over 11 million copies of 1994’s Smash to a post-grunge audience ready for something sunnier. You know them best for Self Esteem’s ode to a flaky girlfriend and Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)’s skewering of a wannabe hipster, but singer Dexter Holland and guitarist Kevin ‘Noodles’ Wasserman tell us their tenth album Let The Bad Times Roll is more socially charged.