Who is nofx

Or, at the least, piss off the world. And then it totally pussied out. Nonetheless, the festival—started by Mark and Shawn Stern of Youth Brigade—has grown into something of a mega-event, with thousands from across the country making the pilgrimage every year. It remains the worst mass shooting in U. Both jokes were about as totally fucking offensive as one can get in modern America.

They were also indefensible. Kind of like making jokes about the Holocaust. Or singling out people in wheelchairs. The band's 11th studio album, Coaster , arrived in , paired with a documentary of the band's international tour in the form of the Fuse network's series Backstage Passport. A number of singles followed, and were collected on 's Stoke Extinguisher , which featured a new track as well as the B-sides from the previous year's 7" releases.

Fat Mike spent much of writing songs for a punk rock musical entitled Home Street Home. Along with the rest of NOFX , he collaborated with members of Alkaline Trio , Dance Hall Crashers , the Living End , and even Tony Award-winning vocalist Lena Hall on the soundtrack, which arrived in early as the final touches were put on the theatrical production.

Arriving in October, the record was preceded by the harder-edged single "Six Years on Dope," which documented Fat Mike 's troubles with substance abuse and his subsequent cleanup.

In , after courting controversy for comments made about the Las Vegas mass shooting, NOFX were pulled from festival slots and canceled their U. Their third live album, Ribbed: Live in a Dive , arrived that August. In March , while quarantining during the COVID pandemic, the group began sharing a series of songs from a forthcoming album they planned on releasing in the fall. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.

Neither one of us had finished any songs. Not quite a recipe for success. So I sez to my friend, let's start a band. A real band, a band that does stuff. A band that writes songs, practices, puts out records, and goes on tour.

We talked about who else we wanted in this band. We knew lots of good people from going to punk gigs around LA. He knew a Bass player named Mike who used to be in a band called False Alarm. All in all, they played only five shows together, disbanding when vocalist Jack Kelly suffered a knee injury and "things never really got back together.

In a interview with Matt Kelemen of Las Vegas Magazine , the singer admitted that he has "always hated that name" because of how similar it sounds to that of Negative FX. When they were still in the process of picking a name for their new band, drummer Erik Sandin and guitarist Eric Melvin both liked NOFX and insisted that it was "different" enough from the Boston act's name. Fat Mike apparently preferred The Banned, though he recalled that he was outvoted by his bandmates and "didn't have any better ideas" anyway.