The famous pop punk group “The Offspring” is coming to Riga

In the middle of the 90s, this would be very surprising news, but even now it will gladden the hearts of many fans of dynamic music – the famous American skatepunk and / or poppunk band “The Offspring” is coming to Riga with a concert! Time – October 5, 2025, place – “Arena Riga”.

Although at one time it seemed that “The Offspring” had died, the group has been reborn with a new force ten years ago – three years ago a new studio album “Let The Bad Times Roll” was released ( before the group had existed). silent for nine years), but literally another new roll “Supercharged” a few days ago. Other than that, it’s pretty good – the reviewer would recommend listening, at the very least, to the album’s brilliant final track “You Can’t Get There From Here”. True, judging by Spotify data, fans like “Make It All Right”, “Light It Up” and “Come To Brazil” are better.

“The Offspring” still has two of its founders, Dexter Holland and Noodles, only Greg K is in the lineup anymore, so we don’t have to fear that “The Offspring” product will be offered to us – they are the real “offspring”!

“The band continue to surprise and excite audiences with their unmatched energy and original style, offering new material with their latest album ‘Supercharged’, which continues to ‘maintain their importance in the world of music. Fans can expect a strong sound that continues the tradition of combining classic punk rock with a modern approach,” announced the organizers of the FBI concert group the upcoming event. As part of the tour, Canadian peers from the band Simple Plan will join as special guests. Tickets will be on sale from October 18 at 10 a.m. in the “Biļešu Serviss” network, it will be possible for members of the concert clubs “Fèis Positivus” the purchase in advance from October 16, using a code that will be sent to registered users.

“The Offspring” is one of the most popular American bands of all time, with which punk rock, albeit in a modern version, suddenly shot to the height of fame in the 90s. “Full concerts, songs that are known from the first second, more than 40 million albums sold – this, of course, does not count the listeners who do not buy anything, but borrow from a friend or a saint , calmly and patiently waiting. the 21st century to increase the group that is already impressive recording today’s listening numbers on streaming platforms,” ​​the phenomenon is explained by the “FBI”. “The group’s videos used to be actively distributed on music TV channels not only in the late hours, where louder and more aggressive rock music was previously “sent”, but also through daylight hours, when even children were glued to the televisions. And now they’ve all grown up to celebrate The Offspring’s fortieth anniversary with a bang.”

Songs like ‘Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)’, ‘Why don’t you get work’, ‘Self-esteem’ or ‘Come out and play’ are probably familiar even to those who have never even heard the term “punk” rock”, but it doesn’t matter – music is still music, and if it’s good, it will find listeners everywhere!