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Offspring have released their latest contribution to the holiday music canon: a stirring and heartfelt rendition of Charles Brown's classic "Bells Will Be Ringing (Please Come Home for Christmas)."
"We've always loved the classic Charles Brown version of this song and think it's really underappreciated," noted singer
Dexter Holland. "We thought it would be the perfect follow up to "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home,"), which we recorded last year, and continuing on the coming home for Christmas theme."
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Offspring has spent much of the past year playing to capacity crowds on headline tours and at festivals across the globe in support of their most recent album, Let the Bad Times Roll.
Currently in the midst of a Canadian tour, they will close out the year with a two-week run of dates in Australia that includes sold-out shows in Perth, Melbourne, Wollongong, Sydney, and Brisbane. The band has announced a spring tour of
Europe and the UK and will announce further tour plans in the coming months.
Legends and innovators of the Southern California rock scene, The
Offspring have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, won countless awards, and have toured consistently, playing more than 500 shows in the last decade alone.
Their music has had a lasting impact across film, television, and video games, and their latest album Let the Bad Times Roll has been a huge global success, hitting career-high chart debuts with seven top 5 and ten top 10 international debuts and nine top ten debuts in the US. The album peaked at #3 on the UK chart and hit #1 on the Alternative Albums chart in the US.