The Offspring's Dexter Holland Talks Summer Tour, Hot Sauce

Punk rock institution the Offspring are currently on their first proper U.S. tour in Cheap Rosetta Stone four years, a two-month arena jaunt under the pull-no-punches banner "Shit Is Fucked Up Tour." Bucking the trend of the Internet-accelerated, blink-and-you-miss-it promotional cycles, the band has been allowing eighth album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace to be a slow-builder: steadily releasing single after single (fourth single "Half-Truism" has been circling the Billboard Modern Rock Singles Chart) and finally touring on the album when its almost a year old. "It seems like, gosh, so many records have come that are there for a minute and theyre gone," says lead singer Dexter Holland. "Big bands too! I just felt like the way for us to do it was to let it get out there." With eyes on a follow-up album and maintaining his burgeoning Gringo Bandito hot sauce business, Holland sat down with Rosetta Stone to talk about Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 their summer tour and exactly why theyve been lugging a piano around.Have you thought about the next record? A little bit. [Producer] Bob Rock was really great to work with and he pushed us in the right way, so weve had conversations about working again. I think hes into it.Are you gonna wait another four years to release it like last time? No, that wasnt intentional. I like being a band. I honestly think we can get something out next year. Ill call it right now. New record in oh-10.Do you have any germs or ideas for it? On this tour were seeing the response to all the work we did a year Rosetta Stone Japanese ago. Were playing one of our older songs, just me on a piano "Its Gone Away." Its gone over really well. I dont know what it means yet, but that all gels together when youre thinking about the next record.Why did you guys adopt a traditional "arena show" move like a piano? Youd play 20 songs in an hour and youd just be wrecked. It was kind of just like bam-bam-bam-bam.Like just getting on a treadmill and sprinting for like an hour. Were trying to figure out how to make it a show. Pacing, imagine that!When did you come up with the name for the tour? One of the songs Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 on our record is "Stuff Is Messed Up," but its "Shit Is Fucked Up."

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