Dexter Holland (L) and Noodles of The Offspring. Credit: Photo via The Offspring/Facebook

Times are bad, but The Offspring is letting it roll and coming to play a show in Tampa this summer.

Tickets to see The Offspring play Tampa’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Event Center on Friday, May 5 go on sale Friday, March 4 at 10 a.m. EDT. Missouri punk-rock band of brothers Radkey opens the show, but ticket prices have yet to be announced.

The band—led by hot sauce maker, songwriter and certified doctor in molecular biology Dexter Holland—is supporting its 2021 album Let the Bad Times Roll, and will be without drummer Pete Parada whose two-year stint with the Garden Grove punk outfit ended last summer when he refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...