Eric Melvin: Last News

NOFX will break up in 2023 after a 40-year run. Frontman Michael “Fat Mike” Burkett announced the news indirectly on Thursday in a reply to a comment on a video he posted to to Instagram a day earlier. When asked why the group doesn’t tour Canada more frequently, Mike responded, “Actually, we love Canada, it’s just that next year will be our last year.

NOFX have pulled out of a headline performance at a Las Vegas festival after receiving “hate messages and threats” in regards to the band’s controversial past comments about the Route 91 Harvest shooting.Fat Mike and co. were announced for this September’s Punk Rock Bowling last week, but have since faced a backlash over a joke they made about the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting while performing at the event back in 2018.“I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you’re in a country band,” said guitarist Eric Melvin at one point in the performance, to which Fat Mike replied: “At least they were country fans and not punk rock fans.”As well as receiving criticism for making the remarks, NOFX were severed from Stone Brewing Co.