Pop punk band the Offspring will headline Minneapolis’ Target Center on Aug. 15 on a bill that also includes ’00s hitmakers Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory.
Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Citi cardholders have access to a presale that runs from 10 a.m. Tuesday through 10 p.m. Thursday.
Guitarist/vocalist Bryan “Dexter” Holland and bassist Gregory “Greg K.” Kriesel formed what would become the Offspring in 1983. Guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman joined the following year and the band released their first single “I’ll Be Waiting” in 1986. They went on to sign to a small label and issue their self-titled debut before inking a deal with emerging punk label Epitaph Records.
The Offspring didn’t take off in a major way until their third album, 1994’s “Smash,” found success in the wake of Nirvana and Green Day bringing punk to the masses. Fueled by the singles “Come Out and Play,” “Self Esteem” and “Gotta Get Away,” “Smash” topped six million in sales and stands to this day as Epitaph’s biggest selling album.
With a newfound and large audience, the band jumped ship to Columbia Records for 1997’s “Ixnay on the Hombre.” For the next decade, the Offspring maintained a strong presence on both rock and alternative radio. They only released one album in the ’10s, but continued to tour.
After firing Kriesel in 2018 and longtime drummer Pete Parada in 2021, Holland and Wasserman returned to action with the albums “Let the Bad Times Roll” in 2021 and “Supercharged” last year.
The band co-headlined the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand with 311 in 2018 and played the inaugural Minnesota Yacht Club Festival last summer.
Jimmy Eat World landed their breakthrough single with 2001’s “The Middle,” while New Found Glory did the same the following year with “My Friends Over You.”
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