NOFX to Break Up in 2023 After 40 Years – Billboard

In line with “Fats Mike” Burkett, NOFX is asking it quits subsequent yr after a 40-year run as a band.

Rolling Stone studies that the frontman casually broke the information in an Instagram remark to a fan asking when the band deliberate to tour in Canada on Thursday. “Really, we love Canada, it’s simply that subsequent yr can be our final yr. We can be asserting our ultimate exhibits quickly. It’s been an incredible run….,” he wrote, whereas including in a separate remark, “Los Angeles would be the final place we play. It’s the place we began, it’s the place we’ll finish.”

As of press time, the band itself has made no official affirmation of any pending cut up.

Whereas the California-based punk rockers began their profession collectively as NO-FX in 1983 — 5 years earlier than the discharge of their 1988 debut album Liberal Animation — they’ve since racked up 14 studio albums and 17 EPs. The band’s most up-to-date launch, 2021’s Single Album, peaked at No. 7 on Billboard‘s Prime Album Gross sales chart in addition to touchdown at No. 29 on the Prime Rock Albums tally.

This summer time, Burkett joined forces with rapper The D.O.C. to report their collaboration “The Quick Ones.” On the time, the bassist raved in regards to the track in an interview with Rolling Stone, saying, “I’ve such a brand new respect for hip-hop. I’m f—ing 55 and I get to do new stuff. Irrespective of how good a NOFX report is, who cares? I imply, individuals care. Our report final yr received nice critiques … [but] I feel that is the most effective report I’ve ever produced.”