All material on the album was written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ginsburg ("Dead to You" credits two co-writers).

Ginsburg started working on his first solo album after a failed attempt at reconciling with former CKY bandmate Deron Miller in early 2014.

[2] For the recording of the album, Ginsburg claimed that he approached the process differently than he had in the past, starting with tracking bass lines rather than "lyric phrases and melody, then guitar".

[2] Rock n Roll Alibis was officially announced on June 4, 2015 with the release of a trailer titled "The Interrogation" featuring a short clip of closing track "Murder Is Sympathy", which sees two police detectives (portrayed by Mike Capes and Rob Valletta)[3] interrogating Ginsburg about the album.

[4] A second trailer titled "Mind of a Warrior" was released on June 19 and features a clip of an instrumental version of the track "Dead to You".