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 The Offspring's new album release September 5, 1998: "Americana," The Offspring's fifth album, will be released November 17th. Produced by Dave Jerden, the follow-up to their multi-platinum "Ixnay On The Hombre" (also produced by Jerden), has mostly high velocity tunes with a few oddities. The compact disc is gonna be an enhanced-CD in the USA, four video-clips will be included in it, the videos are taken from Ixnay On The Hombre (All I Want, Gone Away, The Meaning Of Life and I Choose), also a b-roll footage and a karaoke place, where people can sing along the instrumental versions of the new songs as the lyrics scroll down the computer screen will be included too. After ended the last tour in December '97 (which started in February '97), the band spent six months to write material for the new album. They returned to Dave Jerden's El Dorado Studios in Burbank, CA (same place where they recorded "Ixnay On The Hombre") in the beginning of summer to record the 13-songs album. The cover art is going to be done by Frank Kozik, a rock poster artist. After the album release, The Offspring is due to follow the new United States tour dates in November and December, before tour Australia and Japan in 1999. "I think all of our records are in some ways similar - they always have a bunch of fast stuff and a few different sounding songs," says Dexter. "We're definitely growing as a band. I mean, we started without even knowing how to play. We literally said 'let's be in a band' before we even owned instruments. We had a long way to go. Once you've been on the road and played a couple hundred shows a year for a few years, hopefully, you get a little tighter and even start expanding a little bit". As for lyrical topics, Holland admits he's been influenced by America's cultural craziness. "Lately, I've been into this warped sense of Americana," he says. "The whole daytime talk show culture fascinates me. It seems like the stuff that used to be the fringe is more and more the everyday reality. If America was barbecues, big cars and life in the suburbs in the '50s, it's now totally a freak show. I want to show that ordinary, average American life isn't so average." "We love what we do. We want to make the best music we can and try to top what we did before," says Holland about his continued motivations. "But I don't try to second-guess what the audience is going to like. That's self-defeating. It's more like hearing something on the radio and thinking, 'This is the shit. I want to see if I can do something as good as that'" The first single taken from "Americana" is going to be "Pretty Fly," that will be released November 2nd. Its video-clip will be directed by McG The album contains 13 new tracks:
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