The offspring smash6/27/2023 ![]() In the early Nineties, Epitaph Records, founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz more than a decade earlier to release his own band’s music, had established itself as ground zero for the new wave of West Coast punk, putting out discs by speedy, skatey So-Cal acts like NOFX, Pennywise and mohawked Berkeley street urchins Rancid. ![]() Their Smash was, at the time, the best-selling album ever released on an independent label. In the year punk broke (again), Bay Area’s Green Day ultimately sold more records, but it was Orange County’s the Offspring who actually set records. In 1994, two young, fast, loud and snotty bands took California punk to new melodic heights and unheard of levels of international exposure – and went multi-platinum in the process.
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