NOFX – Darby Crashing Your Party
Description
Music style and influences
Critics have labeled NOFX’s style as primarily punk rock, melodic hardcore, skate punk, ska punk, and pop-punk. Fat Mike, in a 2021 Spin interview, identified NOFX as a melodic hardcore band, rejecting critics’ labeling of the band’s style as pop-punk.
The band cites its influences as Bad Religion, Rich Kids on LSD, D.I., SNFU, Operation Ivy, The Dickies, Descendents, Circle Jerks, Dead Milkmen, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Adrenalin O.D., Minor Threat, Germs, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Adolescents, Misfits, and Subhumans.
Controversy
In 2018, the band attracted significant controversy after statements by Fat Mike and rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin during a concert in Las Vegas on May 30, 2018. Referencing the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Melvin stated “I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you’re in a country band,” and Mike replied with “You know, that [massacre] sucked, but least they were country fans and not punk rock fans.”The lead sponsor of the Punk in Drublic festival, Stone Brewing Co., pulled support from the festival as well as from NOFX’s line of craft beer. NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes were subsequently removed from the festival’s lineup.
The band later apologized, stating, “What we said in Vegas was shitty and insensitive and we are all embarrassed by our remarks.” In June 2018 the band stated that all of their U.S. concerts had been canceled and they had been “effectively banned” from playing in the United States due to the comments. However, Fat Mike later clarified otherwise, stating that “Our promoter canceled — my partner [not the venues].”
Band members
Current members
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Touring members
Former members
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Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
- Liberal Animation (1988)
- S&M Airlines (1989)
- Ribbed (1991)
- White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean (1992)
- Punk in Drublic (1994)
- Heavy Petting Zoo (1996)
- So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes (1997)
- Pump Up the Valuum (2000)
- The War on Errorism (2003)
- Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing (2006)
- Coaster (2009)
- Self Entitled (2012)
- First Ditch Effort (2016)
- Single Album (2021)
- Double Album (2022)
