 While typically playing pop punk, Green Day's 1997 album "Nimrod" contained two songs ("Platypus [I Hate You]" and "Take Back") that were described as hardcore,, while The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland started Nitro Records, a label which released music from a number of hardcore bands including AFI, A Wilhelm Scream, Crime in Stereo, Ensign, The Letters Organize, No Trigger, and T.S.O.L..Meanwhile, Rancid would record a hardcore album with 2000's "Rancid".With the increased popularity of punk rock in the mid-1990s and the 2000s, some hardcore bands signed with major record labels.