Part One - The 200 BEST Songs of 2024 {200-101}

101 - 3% - Won't Stop {Feat. Jessica Mauboy}

102 - Emily Wurramara - STFAFM {Feat. Arringarri}

103 - Taylor Swift - Fortnight {Feat. Post Malone}

104 - Tove Lo & SG Lewis - HEAT

105 - Teenage Dads - Boyfriend

106 - Dua Lipa - Maria
107 - Sycco -  Swarm
108 - Dillon Francis & Yeah Boy - Jet Setter
109 - FINNEAS - For Crying Out Loud
110 - Parcels - Leaveyourlove
111 - The Kid LAROI - Nights Like This - Part Two
112 - Thomas Headon - Middle of the Night
113 - Fred again.., Lil Yachty & Overmono - stayinit
114 - The Kid LAROI - GIRLS
115 - BENEE - Animal
116 - bbno$ - it boy
117 - San Cisco - Consequence
118 - Thelma Plum - Freckles
119 - Anna Lunoe - Look My Way
120 - Hockey Dad - Safety Pin
121 - Joey Valence & Brae - The Baddest
122 - Lime Cordiale - The Big Reveal; Ou L'Hypocrite
123 - Tinashe - Nasty
124 - Thelma Plum - Nobody's Baby
125 - Ruel & DMA'S - What a Life
126 - Kendrick Lamar - Gloria (with SZA)
127 - Hayden James - All In
128 - Allday - Access
129 - King Stingray - Light Up The Path
130 - Blusher - Somebody New
131 - Emily Wurramara - Lordy Lordy {Feat. Tasman Keith}
132 - Future, Metro Boomin - Type Shit
133 - Halsey - Ego
134 - Tyla - Jump {Feat. Gunna, Skillinbeng}
135 - grentperez & Benny Sings - Fuzzy Feeling
136 - Beyoncé - Ya Ya
137 - Remi Wolf - Toro
138 - BENEE - Sad Boiii
139 - Tommy Richman - WHITNEY
140 - The Blessed Madonna - Brand New {Feat. James Vincent McMorrow & A-Trak}
141 - Tyla - PUSH 2 START
142 - The Rubens - Black Balloon
143 - Great Gable - Hometown
144 - The Last Dinner Party - The Feminine Urge
145 - Ecca Vandal - Bleed But Never Die
146 - Mariae Cassandra - Million Billion Trillion
147 - Disclosure, Pa Salieu - King Steps
148 - Telenova - Discothèque Inside My Head
149 - Slowly Slowly - Gimme the Wrench
150 - Lime Cordiale - Stangers
151 - Mia Wray - Nice To Meet Me
152 - Tobiahs - Alone
153 - Rex Orange County - 2008
154 - Kehlani - After Hours
155 - KUČKA - One More Night {Feat. Flume}
156 - Becca Hatch - Bass Keeps Calling
157 - Taylor Swift - Florida!!! {Feat. Florence + The Machine}
158 - Stand Atlantic x Sueco - NOSE BLEED
159 - The Rions - Passionfruit
160 - Ninajirachi & Izzy Camina - Ninacamina
161 - Kaytranada - Call U Up {Feat. Lou Phelps}
162 - Ocean Grove - RAINDROP
163 - Rum Jungle - Did The Morning Let You Down
164 - Great Gable - Best Friend
165 - Ice Spice & Central Tee - Did it First
166 - King Stingray - Southerly
167 - Luude - Pachamama {Feat. Elliphant}
168 - South Summit - Catacombs
169 - SOPHIE - Reason Why {Feat. Kim Petras, BC Kingdom}
170 - Shygirl & SG Lewis - mr useless
171 - Sycco - Touching and Talking
172 - 21 Savage & Doja Cat - n.h.i.e.
173 - Sycco -  I'd Love To Tell You
174 - Khalid - Ground
175 - Wafia - Background
176 - Kita Alexander - Zodiac
177 - John Summit & Sub Focus - Go Back {Feat. Julia Church}
178 - BIG WETT - HOLD UP UR BODY
179 - Flo Milli - Never Lose Me {Feat. SZA, Cardi B}
180 - Tommy Richman - Devil Is A Lie
181 - AJ Tracey & Pozer - Heaterz
182 - Empire Of The Sun - Changes
183 - The Weeknd - São Paulo {Feat. Anitta}
184 - JACOTÉNE - Stop Calling
185 - Nia Archives - Cards On The Table
186 - Megan Thee Stallion - Mamushi {Feat. Yuki Chiba}
187 - Glass Animals - A Tear in Space (airlock)
188 - Ben Gerrans - I Wanna Be
189 - Doechii - NISSAN ALTIMA
190 - Ice Spice - Think U the Shit (Fart)
191 - A. G. Cook - Britpop
192 - Jem Cassar-Daley - Big Container
193 - Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus - II Most Wanted
194 - Jamie xx - Baddy on the Floor  {Feat. Honey Dijon}
195 - Northeast Party House - Dark Boy
196 - Fanning Dempsey National Park - Disconnect
197 - Beyoncé - Jolene
198 - KUČKA - FUN!
199 - Bliss n Eso - Feeling Fly 
200 - Yaeji - Booboo

Album of the Year - CHARLI XCX {Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat}

SZA x Kendrick Lamar

Lana (or SOS Deluxe: Lana) is the reissue of the Album of the Year from 2022, SOS.

This is the second studio album by SZA. Landing late into the year, December 20the to be exact. The Lana version of the reissue features a single guest appearance from Kendrick Lamar. This has continued the pair working across multiple tracks together.

Including Kendrick's album of 2024 GNX. So on the festive, holy day lets celebrate SZA x Kendrick Lamar.

Lana was supported by the singles Saturn and Drive. You can stream the full album, see these videos below.

Till next time. Laters......

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Summer Holidays - SZA - {SOS Deluxe: LANA}

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Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - SNOOP DOGG - {Missionary}

 

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Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - MASHD N KUTCHER - {Legacy}

Friday Flash(back) back in Q1, 2025

Back in August the Friday Flash(back) unearthed Grinspoon, Foster the People, The Smashing Pumpkins while September was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Missy Higgins, Snow Patrol & Nelly Furtado.

The Friday Flash(back) has been a really fun addition to this very blog.

With so many artists of nostalgia dropping records in 2024, I have had a ball digging deep into new records from the above, Ben Folds, The Offspring, Coldplay, Ben Lee, Kings of Leon and more!

So I am excited to get the Friday Flash(back) sometime in Q1, 2025. Very exciting. For now, for your weekend, here are some highlights from this years Friday Flash(back)'s.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the year for 2024 & the winner is.....

This year, has really only been about one particular album, Brat.

This is actually Charli XCX's sixth studio album. Landing in June, the album had it's own season. Brat Summer, was a thing! Brat features production by Charli XCX, her longtime executive producer A. G. Cook, Finn Keane, Cirkut, her partner George Daniel, and others. The album is Charli's follow up to the brilliant, 2022 album, Crash.

Commercially, Brat peaked at number one in the UK, Australia, and Ireland, and reached the top ten in 12 other countries, including the United States, where it marked Charli XCX's highest debut on the Billboard 200 (number 3). 

A week later a deluxe edition, Brat and It's the Same but There's Three More Songs So It's Not, with three additional tracks. Including the OG Guess track!

Mark three was a full remix album, titled Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat, featuring 20 guest artists, this landed in October.

The album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize for 2024 Album of the Year.

The cover art and aesthetic became a popular Internet trend, and was adopted by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign after Charli XCX tweeted about the candidate.

Brat was nominated for seven Grammy Awards at the 67th annual ceremony, including Album of the Year.

To support the album, Charli XCX embarked on the Sweat tour in 2024 with collaborator Troye Sivan with an additional Brat arena solo tour coming in late 2024 and early 2025. She will also make her way to Laneway in 2025! Basically Laneway 2025 is all about Charli XCX!

Speaking of the Sweat tour, who won last year's Album of the Year 2023? Well it was also the ARIA album of the year! Yes tour partner Troye Sivan has also had, a fairly HUGE 2024!

So if you guessed, this year's Album of the Year was brat, you were right! With tunes like Guess, Apple, the remixes, the guests! This album was FIRE! Well done Charli XCX! See you at Laneway in 2025!

Album of the Week - OCEAN GROVE - {Oddworld}

Troye Sivan x Dom Dolla

Around Australia, November has always been Aus Music Month on Triple J, the ARIA's have been held in November and Ausmusic T-Shirt Day is getting bigger and bigger each year. So this past week, I have leaned into to HUGE Aussie acts.

Troye Sivan, first up for my first gig at Brisbane's Riverstage. Man the people in Brisbane are friendly. Like so friendly.

At this year's ARIA Awards, Troye had a moment. For Something to Give Each Other, he won, Best Pop Release, Album of the Year and Best Solo Artist. Last year, for Rush alone, he also won Best Solo Artist, along with Song of the Year. So the ARIA's love Troye Sivan!

Dom Dolla, also won Best Dance/Electronic Release at this year's ARIA Awards for Saving Up.

So to the concerts. Troye was on a perfect near summer evening. Dom Dolla had the skies open up, with the Domain flooding, being a wild wet mess. So I only stayed for the first half of his two hour set. I caught the end of Flight Facilities who joined the bill during the week.

Now Troye was spectacular. Kicking off with a sexy Got Me Started, followed by my latest favourite,What's The Time Where You Are?, incredible! He threw in tunes with recent tour partner Charli XCX, 1999 and the brilliant Talk Talk remix.

He threw in My My My and Bloom, which were huge favourites at his previous 2019 tour I went to. Boy a lot has changed in the sexual nature of the show. Not to mention the sexy dancers and interactions with Troye (baby).

Now to Dom. A DJ is hard to watch live if you are not in the zone. The weather had seriously impacted my excitement about this gig. He did however post a recent full London set to YouTube, so I guess I should watch that. Maybe that is for viewing next week.

Speaking of next week, Troye Sivan was the Album of the Year for last year. This year I am peaking early. This year's Album of the Year will be posted next week!Who will it be!

So tomorrow may be December, however remember to support Australian music in December, January, March, or hell July. These are our stories from our incredible artists. New or old, Australia has such a wide array of excellent talent!

Friday Flash(back) - Ben Folds - Sleigher

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Benjamin Scott Folds or simply Ben Folds, or the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five.

Hailing from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Folds, after playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Ben came to prominence as the eponymous frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000.

The group had a few year reunion from 2011 to 2013. 

Folds went onto record a number of solo albums. He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. 

Since May 2017, he has been the first artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Folds has frequently performed arrangements of his music with uncommon instrumentation for rock and pop music, including symphony orchestras and a cappella groups. In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Hoodwinked!, and Over the Hedge, Folds has produced several albums, including Amanda Palmer's first solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer in 2008.

Folds was a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off from 2009 to 2013.

In July 2019, Folds published his first book, a memoir, titled A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons.

Recently Folds went all festive releasing, Sleigher, his sixth studio album. It was announced in September, along with the release of two songs from the album, The Christmas Song, and We Could Have This featuring Lindsey Kraft.

Being festive, this will also be the final Friday Flash(back) for 2024. I have a feeling it will return once things return to normal programming in 2025. Speaking of the holidays are incoming. Next week I may have a holiday treat for you. The Album of the Year announcement maybe sooner than usual....

GNX - Guests

Album of the Week - KENDRICK LAMAR - {GNX}

Friday Flash(back) - Gwen Stefani - Bouquet

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton or simply Gwen Stefani is simply iconic. What a great way to get closer to the holidays with a somewhat festive, fun and timeless Friday Flash(back)!

No only is Stefani a great singer-songwriter, she is also a rad fashion designer, while co-founding/lead vocalist, of the band No Doubt.

Famous for Just a Girl, Spiderwebs, & Don't Speak, their 1995 breakthrough studio album Tragic Kingdom, was a worldwide smash hit.

Later No Doubt went on to release hits like Hey Baby & It's My Life.

No Doubt went on hiatus, so Stefani embarked on a solo pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. 

Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was a critical and commercial success. It spawned six singles, including What You Waiting For?, Rich Girl, Hollaback Girl,  &nCool. Hollaback Girl reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies.

In 2006, Stefani released her second studio album, The Sweet Escape. Among the singles were Wind It Up & The Sweet Escape, the latter of which was number three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2007.

Her third solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like in 2016, was her first solo album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Her fourth solo album and first full-length Christmas album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, was released in 2017 and charted 19 tracks on Billboard's Holiday Digital Song Sales component chart in the United States. 

Stefani has released several singles with husband Blake Shelton, including Nobody but You in 2020, which reached number 18 in the US. Last Friday, she will released her fifth studio album Bouquet.

Stefani has won three Grammy Awards. As a solo artist, she has received an American Music Award, a Brit Award, a World Music Award, and two Billboard Music Awards. 

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line inspired by Japanese culture and fashion. 

Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–2009 decade. VH1 ranked her 13th on their 100 Greatest Women in Music list in 2012. Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 60 million records worldwide.

So before I turn the spotlight onto Bouquet tomorrow, relive some hits and memories below.

Seeya tomorrow!

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - SOUTH SUMMIT - {The Bliss}

Friday Flash(back) - Paul Kelly - Fever Longing Still

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

This week the Friday Flash(back) is HUGE!

Paul Maurice Kelly AO, born 13 January 1955) has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. 

He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output straddles folk, rock and country. 

His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for over 30 years. 

After growing up in Adelaide, Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the pub rock scene and drug culture and recorded two albums with the Dots. 

Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The band was renamed Paul Kelly and the Messengers, initially only for international releases, to avoid possible racial interpretations of the word "coloured". At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.

Kelly's Top 40 singles include Billy Baxter, Before Too Long, Darling It Hurts, To Her Door (his highest-charting local hit in 1987), Dumb Things (appeared on United States charts in 1988) & Roll on Summer.

Top-20 albums include Gossip, Under the Sun, Comedy, Songs from the South (1997 compilation), ...Nothing but a Dream, Stolen Apples, Spring and Fall, The Merri Soul Sessions, Seven Sonnets and a Song, Death's Dateless Night (with Charlie Owen), Life Is Fine (his first number-one album) and Nature.

Kelly has won 14 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards, including his induction into their hall of fame in 1997. Dan Kelly, his nephew, is a singer and guitarist in his own right. Dan performed with Kelly on Ways and Means and Stolen Apples. Both were members of Stardust Five, which released a self-titled album in 2006. 

On 22 September 2010, Kelly released his memoir, How to Make Gravy. His biographical film Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, directed by Ian Darling, was released to cinemas in October 2012.

In 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) listed the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, which included Kelly's To Her Door, and Treaty, written by Kelly and members of Yothu Yindi. Aside from Treaty, Kelly wrote or co-wrote several songs on Indigenous Australian social issues and historical events. He provided songs for many other artists, tailoring them to their particular vocal range. The album Women at the Well from 2002 had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute.

Kelly was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician.

Kelly was married and divorced twice; he has three children and resides in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.

Earlier this month, Kelly released his twenty-ninth studio album, Fever Longing Still. The album debuted at number three last week!

The album's title is lifted from by William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147.

Stream it here tomorrow, but before here is a look at Kelly's huge history, an Australian icon. So much so the track How to Make Gravy will turn into a streaming film, on Bineg based on the 1996 song.

Written by Megan Washington and Nick Waterman, with Waterman also directing the film. This will also be the first original film to be released on Binge.

The film expands on the characters and stories detailed within the song's lyrics, which take the form of a letter from Joe writing from prison, four days before Christmas.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - KING STINGRAY - {For the Dreams}

Friday Flash(back) - Sarah Blasko - I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Sarah Elizabeth Blaskow, known professionally as Sarah Blasko, will be tomorrow's Friday Flash(back).

Releasing her latest record, I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain, last Friday. It was a big week for Aussie legends last Friday with Paul Kelly also releasing his 29th album!

From April 2002, Blasko developed her solo career after fronting Sydney-based band, Acquiesce, between the mid-1990s and 2001. She had performed under her then married name, Sarah Semmens, and, after leaving Acquiesce, as Sorija in a briefly existing duo of that name. 

As a solo artist Blasko has released seven studio albums, The Overture & the Underscore (11 October 2004), What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have (October 2006, which peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart), As Day Follows Night (July 2009, which reached No. 5), I Awake (October 2012, which made No. 9), Eternal Return (November 2015), Depth of Field (February 2018) & the latest I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain last Friday.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007, Blasko won Best Pop Release for her second album. 

Her third album won the Best Female Artist in 2009 and her fourth album was nominated for the same category in 2013. 

In October 2010 As Day Follows Night was listed at No. 19 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. Sarah also recorded an album, Seeker Lover Keeper, in New York for the group of the same name with fellow founding members and Australian singer-songwriters, Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby.

The group's debut album peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Charts in June 2011, Blasko's highest chart entry. The trio embarked on a national tour to promote the album in June and July that year. Where I was lucky enough to see them live at Marrickville's The Factory Theatre.

Ahead of Blasko's Friday Flash(back), let's take in some of the sights and sounds of Blasko's excellent career to date below.

Hamilton

I occasionally go to musicals, last Friday, I was lucky enough to see Hamilton: An American Musical.

The biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United States. 

Hamilton was composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the music draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. 

It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by America now."

From its opening, off-Broadway in 2015, Hamilton received near-universal acclaim.

Hamilton then transferred to the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received uniformly positive reviews and high box office sales.

At the 70th Tony Awards, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Musical. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A filmed version of the Broadway production was released in 2020 on Disney+. Which I may even check out. However live at The Star in Sydney, it was mazing!

So if you are in Sydney, can get to Sydney or want to see a musical like no other. Go to see Hamilton now. Talk about changing gears from this week's big feature record, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cartoon Darkness. 

Speaking of changing gears, the Friday Flash(back) will also completely change the gears this week too. Come back tomorrow for a sneak peek!

Till then!

 

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - Amyl and the Sniffers - {Cartoon Darkness}

Friday Flash(back) - Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Laura Beatrice Marling has won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist back in 2011. Laura was also nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014, 2016, & 2018 Brit Awards.

Marling joined her older sisters in London at age 16 to pursue a career in music. She played with a number of groups and released her debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008. 

Her first album, her second album I Speak Because I Can, her fourth album Once I Was an Eagle, and her seventh album Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2020, respectively. 

Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category, as was Song for Our Daughter.

Her songwriting is associated with sex and relationships, the modern concept of womanhood, and trauma.

Marling is the youngest of three daughters. Her mother is a music teacher. Marling's father, Sir Charles William Somerset Marling, 5th baronet ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music, and shaped her musical taste.  She learned guitar at an early age.

Marling was privately educated at Waverly Primary School in Finchampstead, Berkshire and Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire.

Last Friday, Laura released her eighth record, Patterns in Repeat. Marling co-produced the album with Dom Monks. It was supported by three singles: Patterns, No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can & Child of Mine.

Come back tomorrow for more Laura Marling.

Pearl - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - ANNA LUNOE - {Pearl}

Live Music Week/Weeknd - Confidence Man x The Weeknd

So I am a huge fan of this week's feature stars, Confidence Man, so you can imagine my excitement to see them at Sydney's iconic Enmore Theatre last night. This comes the same week as I ended up seeing a bucket list artist, The Weeknd in a second attempt to see his After Hours til Dawn Tour.

This concert was indeed supposed to take place last November. However we ended up getting it this past week gone. It was well worth the wait. With fire works, fire, one incredible stage, this was a concert for the ages.

Sadly the Confidence Man did not match up to their new year's eve set a few years back when I first fell in love with them.

I did love their songs and setlist, just the under an hour timing and some of the "bratty" crowd was a bit much.

That said the tunes from their new album, 3AM (LA LA LA) were incredible. My personal favourite, is Real Move Touch, for sure.

My biggest takeaway from The Weeknd concert was, I need his tune with Anitta, Sao Paulo. What a banger! Discover it for yourself below.

Confidence Man, could be up for a new end of year award from this blog, however for now we say goodbye to 3AM (LA LA LA), hello to a new feature record next week. Until then.

Field Day 2025 MixTape

The Field Day 2025 line up is here! Tickets went on sale to this see this awesome line up on Thursday!

Friday Flash(back) - The Offspring - SUPERCHARGED

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

The Offspring formed all the way back in 1984 in Garden Grove, California, originally under the name Manic Subsidal.

The Offspring are lead vocalist & rhythm guitarist Bryan "Dexter" Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Todd Morse, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy and drummer Brandon Pertzborn. 

The Offspring is often credited (alongside fellow California punk bands Green Day, NOFX, Bad Religion, Rancid, Pennywise and Blink-182) for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the 90's.

During their 40-year career, the Offspring has eleven studio albums and sold more than 40 million records, making them one of the best-selling punk rock bands.

The Offspring's longest-serving drummer was Ron Welty, who replaced original drummer James Lilja in 1987. 

He was replaced by Adam "Atom" Willard in 2003, who was replaced four years later by Pete Parada. Parada was fired in 2021 after he refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and was replaced two years later by Pertzborn.

Gregory "Greg K." Kriesel (one of the Offspring's co-founders) was the band's bassist until he was fired in 2018; this left Holland as the sole remaining original member. Kriesel was replaced by Todd Morse, who had been the Offspring's touring guitarist since 2009. Morse's position as touring member was filled by Jonah Nimoy, who became an official member in 2023.

After achieving a local following with their early releases, including their 1989 self-titled debut album and the vinyl-only EP Baghdad (1991), the Offspring signed with independent label Epitaph Records and released two albums: Ignition (1992) and Smash (1994). 

Smash, which contained the band's first major hit Come Out and Play, is one of the best-selling albums released on an independent record label, selling over 11 million copies worldwide and helping to propel punk rock into the mainstream.

The success of Smash attracted attention from major labels including Columbia Records, with whom the Offspring signed in 1996; their first album for the label, Ixnay on the Hombre (1997), did not match its predecessor's success, but received favorable reviews and gold and platinum RIAA certifications.

The band reached furthest success with its fifth album Americana (1998), to which three of its singles − Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), Why Don't You Get a Job? & The Kids Aren't Alright, became mainstream radio and MTV staples, while the album managed to sell over five million units in the US.

Though their next two albums, Conspiracy of One (2000) and Splinter (2003), were not as successful as those from the previous decade, they were both critically acclaimed, with the former going platinum and the latter being certified gold.

The Offspring's eighth studio album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008), cemented their comeback on the strength of its second single You're Gonna Go Far, Kid, which reached number one on the Billboard rock charts for eleven weeks and has since obtained platinum status.

The band released no new studio albums between Days Go By (2012) and Let the Bad Times Roll (2021), but continued touring and released a series of one-off songs in the interim. Their latest eleventh studio album, Supercharged, was released a couple of Friday's ago.

Supercharged is the band's first album to feature bassist Todd Morse as an official member and the band's first album to feature multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy and drummer Brandon Pertzborn.

The album was preceded by the singles Make It All Right, Light It Up, Come to Brazil,  & Ok, But This Is the Last Time.