SUPER NOODLES

Besides Green Day, no band did more to take punk into the mainstream in the 90s than The Offspring, whose breakout hit, 1994’s (Smash, became the world’s best-selling album on an independent label. In a career spanning 37 years, the band has now sold more than 40 million records. So perhaps they’ve earned the right to take it easy. But still, nine years between albums is not very punk rock, is it?

Guitarist Noodles, talking from the band’s Huntington Beach studio where was recorded, explains the delay. “I think part of it was we didn’t want