In response, Holland and Wasserman filed a cross-complaint, denying basically everything Kriesel has alleged and asking the court to appoint 'three disinterested appraisers to appraise the fair value' of Kriesel's shares of THE OFFSPRING. Last year, THE OFFSPRING bassist Gregory 'Greg K.' Kriesel, who hasn't performed with the band since 2018, filed a federal lawsuit against Noodles and Dexter alleging trademark infringement and breach of partnership agreement over the rights to THE OFFSPRING name. THE OFFSPRING's last single, the aforementioned 'Coming For You', dropped in 2015. Noodles described the track as 'kind of like a straight-forward OFFSPRING song.' THE OFFSPRING debuted 'It Won't Get Better' live in concert in June 2018 and has been performing it ever since. Rather than making us feel like, 'Oh, man, we're not playing good enough,' or whatever, or, 'We're not coming up with the best parts for this,' he makes us feel like we've got more in us and we can bring more to the table. He makes us work and he makes us try harder to be as best as we can, but he does it in a way that's cool - he's not being a dick about it. It's been a real comfortable relationship.

Speaking about THE OFFSPRING's working relationship with Rock, Noodles said: 'We hit it off with him immediately. Both those songs are pretty much dead center in what this record's gonna be like.' One of the songs on there is gonna be 'Coming For You', which we released about four years ago, and that song is a good indication as well. We would like to do more of the stuff live, but we want the fans to hear the songs the way we recorded them, the way we want them to hear it rather than a shitty cellphone recording…. We're doing a song live every night called 'It Won't Get Better'. There's songs that you're gonna hear that are gonna be easily recognizable as vintage-sounding OFFSPRING, for sure. He said: 'It's definitely an OFFSPRING record. Last summer, THE OFFSPRING guitarist Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman talked to Finland's Kaaos TV about the musical direction of the band's new material.

This past April, THE OFFSPRING jumped on the 'Tiger King' bandwagon by recording a cover version of THE CLINTON JOHNSON BAND's 'Here Kitty Kitty', a song made popular by Joe Schreibvogel - better known as Joe Exotic, the 'Tiger King' - through the Netflix docuseries.

We had a single scheduled to be released and all that stuff, and then this happened. We were kind of just doing some last-minute tweaks and stuff and getting ready. The follow-up to 2012's 'Days Go By' was once again produced by Bob Rock, who also worked on the band's last two LPs.ĭexter said (see video below): 'It's basically done. THE OFFSPRING vocalist/guitarist Bryan 'Dexter' Holland spoke to Kylie Olsson of Download TV about the status of the band's long-awaited tenth album.

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