NOFX final album and tour 2022-11-03 by Raul Stanciu STAFF | 16 Comments | Punk rock veterans NOFX announced they are disbanding after one final tour starting in 2023. They will also release their final studio record, Double Album on December 2 through Fat Wreck Chords. A second single off the upcoming LP was released, entitled "Punk Rock Cliché". The tune was written six years ago with Matt Skiba and Fat Mike offered it for inclusion on Blink-182's California.
As Fat Mike mentioned to Spin: "Well, it’s a song I wrote probably six years ago when I was staying on Matt Skiba’s couch — as one does. This is when he had just been asked to join Blink-182 and they were demoing songs for California. I said, “Hey, check this out.” I played the song, and I said “I think this would be a great Blink-182 song.” He worked on some of the lyrics with me — some of them were already written. It was the first time we wrote together. He brought it to the band, they recorded it, and a few weeks later, Travis Barker did a bunch of interviews with NME and Exclaim! and whoever else, and in all the interviews, he said, “We have a new song called ‘Punk Rock Cliché,’ and it’s the best song on the album. I’m really excited about it.’ So when I saw those articles, I was really stoked.
They recorded the album, they recorded the song for the album, and their label said “This is your first single.” Matt called me and said, “Dude, you won’t believe this, but your song ‘Punk Rock Cliché’ is going to be our first single.” It was a big deal because it was their first single in years. Then he called me up six weeks later and said, “I don’t know how to tell you this, but I told the band you wrote the song and they dropped it off the album completely.” I was really bummed because I thought it was going to be my first radio hit. I didn’t really understand at the time, but I thought about it, and I figured, “Well, they just kicked Tom out of the band, so if anyone got word that I wrote it…” To be clear, I didn’t care. I was going to ghostwrite it. But I could see how someone saying “Oh, you had to get Fat Mike to write a song for you” would be something they didn’t want to come out.
But it was just weird because Travis and I used to text and talk pretty regularly. He played on one of my albums. We weren’t close, but we were friends. And he just never spoke to me again after that. At first, it felt really, really bad for me. It really bummed me out because I got my hopes up, and I really liked the song. So about a year or two later, NOFX recorded it — because it was still my song. It didn’t make it on Single Album, but it was recorded four or five years ago. Now, it’s coming out on our new album. It’s funny because six months ago, I reached out to [Blink-182] and said “Hey, you guys want to do a split seven-inch? It would be pretty cool to have both versions of the same songs.” No response from anyone. No shit, but their version is way better than the NOFX version. I tried really hard, but Travis just killed it. He’s such a monster on drums. Skiba was singing it. Seriously, I really wanted to kick their ass on it, but I think their version is better. It’s too bad because I really thought it would be a really cool split with them, but the world only gets to hear the NOFX version of “Punk Rock Cliché” for now."
Listen to "Punk Rock Cliché" below:
Regarding their final tour and breakup, Mike added: "Well, 2023 is not our last year. That’s when our last tour starts, but we’re going into 2024. It will be our absolute final tour. I just don’t enjoy it like I used to, but we are all excited about playing our final shows. We’re going to play every album we’ve ever recorded. Every city is going to be very special. We’ll have been a band for 40 years with all original members, and we’re going to play 40 cities. Every show, we’re going to play 40 different songs. It’s just a whole bunch of cool things with these last shows."
First single "Darby Crashing Your Party":
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Damn, now I want to hear the Blink-182 version. Song's pretty fun but Mike sounds hella tired
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One can imagine a better Blink version of the first song. I like "Darby Crashing Your Party" as well. if possible, I really want to catch the tour.
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Weird that this band's been going longer than I've been alive. ngl they haven't been good in years but I'm going to miss them
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I don't have high hopes for Double Album, as it's mostly tracks that didn't make Single Album. (Single album was originally going to be called Double Album and have enough songs for a double album, but half the songs got cut, so it ended up being a single album, now those cut tracks are going on Double Album.
But there is supposed to be another album after this of entirely new material that should be great.
As for seeing them live, first time I saw them was when I snuck into a gig when I was underage 26 years ago.
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As someone who hates Fat Mike and NOFX this is lovely news~
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"As someone who hates Fat Mike and NOFX this is lovely news"
This.
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NOFX rules and I will miss them. I'll be at this tour for sure.
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how tf can you hate NOFX
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Would be super curious to hear the blink version.
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does this mean warped tours back on?
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sucks their finally going out but cant fault it really, at a certain point you gotta move on
one of the most legendary punk acts of all time though
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To call the vocals lackluster would be a hugh understatement.
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Always thought NOFX would be one of the bands to go on until the lead vocalist dies.
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welp guess i need to catch this tour at some point then since i've never seen them before.
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Their records were among the first CDs I bought in my life that led directly to my love of punk music, so although it's still early to say, they will be missed.
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