Going full speed into summer, The Offspring have released another killer track off of their highly anticipated new album ‘SUPERCHARGED‘, out October 11 via Concord Records, aptly named Light It Up.
On the new track Dexter Holland commented: “This song is a full speed ahead juggernaut!
Adding to their many accolades, the band’s classic hit You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid off of their 2008 ‘Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace’ album has been added to Spotify’s Billions Club this week after the song reached one billion streams on the platform. Prior to this You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid, had already been certified Platinum in the United States, United Kingdom and Gold in Spain, Poland, Italy, Germany, and Denmark. Upon release song hit #1 on the Alternative Airplay Chart (formerly the Hot Modern Rock Tracks Chart) and remained at the top spot for 11 weeks – making it the longest #1 of any of the band’s singles. The Billions Club, which first launched in 2020, lists all of the songs that have reached One Billion streams on Spotify. The Offspring’s infamous song has now joined the list which features songs from peers and icons including AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Whitney Houston, The Killers and more.
The Offspring have had a lot of time with their music industry peers and last week released two official performance videos with a legendary guest star- Queen’s own Brian May who joined at Starmus Festival not only for a performance of their own song Gone Away but a cover of Queen’s Stone Cold Crazy.
Watch Gone Away HERE & Stone Cold Crazy HERE
For the special performance The Offspring started a beautiful orchestral version, joined by The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Stuart Morley, of their 1997 hit Gone Away with Dexter Holland singing solo. Audience members were thrilled when halfway through the song the rest of The Offspring AND Queen’s Brian May joined the stage. In classic May fashion, he added some stellar guitar licks to the song, which only further added to the incredible rendition. Thrilled with the performance, Dexter remarked, “Brian so nice of you to join us! So nice of you to hop in on this one! Thank you, Thank you, What a treat!” Directly following, Dexter intro’d the next track saying: “As long as we are all here, wanna play a Queen song maybe?” before they all launched into a killer rendition of Stone Cold Crazy with May on guitar.
All of this after the band and Ed Sheeran broke the internet after they performed to a massive crowd at Napa’s BottleRock Festival. Sheeran – who is a longtime fan of The Offspring – surprised the crowd and performed Million Miles Away from the band’s ‘Conspiracy of One’ album (released in 2000). See the performance HERE and Sheeran’s post on the iconic performance HERE.
Continuing on the road, the band are performing overseas at numerous festivals as well as Louder Than Life Festival on September 26 and more in North America.
LIGHT IT UP IS OUT NOW
PRE-ORDER SUPERCHARGED HERE – OUT OCTOBER 11
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