OFFBEATS play rock, with ska, reggae, and funk influences. Most of our songs come directly out of our experiences playing in the band. Everything from answering machine messages to studio burglary becomes food for the creative process. When you catch your neighbor inside your house carefully placing your computer down before hopping the back fence, the only sane thing to do is write a song like 'Take what you want' and play it using a sample of breaking glass. Or after weeks of phone tag with booking agents, when one says 'Offbeat Skin...what a cool band name' you either write a song with that title or change the name of the band. Of course when faced with the eternal conflict of balancing business and music the inevitable conclusion has to be 'Clone me now!'

We have played throughout the Bay-area since 1987 at a wide range of venues; from a 'new' club in the Tenderloin recently occupied by homeless people to Frost Amphitheater at Stanford, and the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. We have released Two CD's on Dexter Records 'Offbeats' and 'Rock 'n' Ska.'.