After 40 years as a band, the bold and brash punk quartet NOFX is calling it quits, but not in a dramatic, explosive way. It was about saying things you just want to say and not caring what other people think.” But after spending the bulk of the 1980s fruitlessly bouncing around the SoCal punk rock scene, in the ’90s …
The American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 95, best known for his ground-breaking work in linguistics and his influential critiques of US foreign policy and media, is not someone whose name one would expect to find in the lyrics of a punk rock band. Over time, punk went mainstream and many of NOFX’s peers caved on these fronts, including Green …
Just a few years before he founded Hopeless Records in his early 20s, Louis Posen thought he saw a future for himself in the film industry. Between that book and a budding friendship with Mike “Fat Mike” Burkett of the band NOFX and his label Fat Wreck Chords — one born out of Posen volunteering to produce, direct and fund …
Mike Burkett is best known to most as Fat Mike, lead singer and bassist of iconic punk rock groups NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and owner and founder of legendary label Fat Wreck Chords. I want to feel feminine" "Punk rock has been homophobic forever," he tells Double J before the band return to Australia for this …
