Mar 24, 2021

NOFX have just released Single Album, their 14th studio record since forming in LA in 1983. At that point Fat Mike was known as Mike Burkett, and was still cutting his teeth in the LA punk rock scene.

As he explains in this interview it was a violent scene where being stabbed at a gig was not uncommon. But in punk...

Mar 10, 2021

Born Xavier Dphrepaulezz in rural Massachusetts, by the time he was 11 the boy who'd come to be known as Fantastic Negrito was living on the streets of Oakland, bouncing between foster families, and running with gun-toting gangs.

An interest in music took him to LA in the early-'90s, where he ended up working with...