The Offspring, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory
Aug. 13, 2025
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
By Rob McCune
Hard hats should be given out at the gate for The Offspring’s “Supercharged” Tour, featuring support from Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory. Three of the hardest working pop-punk rock bands smashed their way into Blossom Music Center, an outdoor amphitheater in northeast Ohio with a capacity of 23,000 that felt bursting at the seams, for a show that brought down the house.
And that’s an “Understatement,” which appropriately was the first of 44 songs as New Found Glory opened the show and a can of whoop-ass.
These three bands, between them, have produced 33 albums since 1989, along with 90 singles, 13 EPs and 32 other albums (live, compilation, covers, demos and video albums).
The hits were coming left and right, and amid all the rubble, the fans were ready to rumble.
But even before the opening barrage, before the beer garden and nestled by the merch, the punk was popping off with a curated Offspring-inspired and -autographed art and photography exhibit in partnership with Punk Rock & Paintbrushes. Pieces celebrating four decades of The Offspring were up for purchase with proceeds benefitting some of the band’s favorite charities. All of this art, of course, would be a great fit for an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in nearby Cleveland, which The Offspring band members visited earlier in the day before the concert, but which has yet to induct the band, much to the fans’ dismay.


To start the show, with the sun still shining, New Found Glory took a stage that was “Dressed to Kill,” looking like a 1990s skatepark, splashed with bright pink and yellow and spray-painted silhouettes, in Coral Springs, Florida, where the band got its start in 1997. It was certainly not “All Downhill From Here,” as these punk rock pals, in all three bands, gave “100%,” fully aware that “Failure’s Not Flattering.” And if anyone were to argue it was “Hit or Miss,” there’s no doubt that the hits far outnumbered the misses.
NFG lead singer Jordan Pundik, putting in the work, left the stage to pump up the crowd, determined to get the mosh pit going and those seated in the crowd up on their feet. And though the fans swore that they were true, Pundik made it clear in the band’s set finale: “I’d still pick ‘My Friends Over You.’”
Those friends included frontman Jim Adkins and the boys of Jimmy Eat World, of Mesa, Arizona, who took over next feeling nostalgic, reminiscing about Cleveland-area gigs and tours going back 30 years, starting in charmingly hole-in-the-wall venues and leading to this moment, in front of a roaring, still locked-in crowd of thousands stretching all the way to the back of the pavilion and from there, the lawn, at Blossom.


The energy of this crowd, seemingly, was enough to take the “Pain” away, even if “Just Tonight.” Down to “Let It Happen,” Jimmy Eat World did the “Work” and had the “Blister” to show it. The band’s set sampled from four of their 10 studio albums, and included a single released in 2022, “Something Loud,” which is certainly what this crowd had in mind. If that was the main course, the dessert came in the form of arguably the band’s most-played radio hits, saved for last: First the crimson and clover of “A Praise Chorus,” followed by the “Sweetness” and “The Middle,” all off the commercially successful fourth album “Bleed American,” released in 2001.


Prepping the pavilion for pomp and spectacle, between-set entertainment included a mini blimp soaring overhead and fan-cam which, while unlikely to match the virality of another recent candid concert camera, stirred the fun pot with impromptu kisses, head-banging and booty-shaking. The message from The Offspring: “Come Out and Play.”
Keeping it separated from the start, the Southern California rockers had their fans nodding their heads violently in agreement as if to say: That’s “All I Want.” The “Original Prankster,” frontman and founder Dexter Holland was more than “Looking out for #1,” mixing things up with a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne about halfway through the set that included a mashup of Black Sabbath’s “Electric Funeral” and “Paranoid,” and then Ozzy’s own “Crazy Train.” The band then rocked out to “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” their own electric-guitar orchestration set to the piece composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875, before transitioning into a cover of the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated.”
Crowd-pleasers off the band’s fifth studio album “Americana” – the angst-ridden “Why Don’t You Get a Job” and “The Kids Aren’t Alright,” along with white-boy anthem “Pretty Fly” – amped up the crowd ahead of the encore, which hit ’em right between the eyes with “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” before ending with a Smash with “Self Esteem.”
All in a day’s work for these work-horse punk rockers.

Rob McCune is Every_Thing_After_Photo on Instagram, where he shares his concert photography and reviews, as well as clips from his “Every.Thing.After” podcast, with interviews with musicians and bands.

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