iPod Shuffle

Wasserman’s shuffle is true to his roots. Out of 14 days’ worth of music on his iPod, the Offspring’s guitarist came up with a list of classic punk and rock bands and a pair of funnymen who influenced the California rabble-rouser’s hard, fast, and comic edge. “I have moods where I’m not really into the loud and bombastic,’’ he says from New York City. But, he admits, “I do listen to a lot of older punk-rock stuff.’’ The Offspring will play some of that stuff, at least as old as the mid-’90s, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell tonight at 7:30. Tickets are $35.50 at 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

1. “Fairytale of New York,’’ the Pogues

2. “Sounds of Laughter,’’ T.S.O.L.

3. “Mediocre Fred,’’ the Smothers Brothers

4. “Can’t Find My Way Home,’’ Blind Faith

5. “Sister Morphine,’’ the Rolling Stones

6. “Halloween,’’ Dead Kennedys

7. “Hair,’’ the Dickies

8. “Stickin’ in My Eye,’’ NOFX

9. “Spiders in the Dressing Room,’’ Toy Dolls

10. “Room Service,’’ Kiss

Total songs: 20,000-plus.

Glad we missed: “Probably ABBA. I had to learn a 15-minute medley for ‘Mamma Mia,’ for my daughter’s high school choir. They asked me to join the backing band, so I would stay in the wings and play guitar. I don’t read music, but I was able to figure out how to play it, which in a way is cool because it’s a style of playing guitar I never would’ve tried to figure out.’’,