NOFX, No Use for a Name, American Steel
Fri., May 9 2008 at 12:00AM
Don't go looking for NOFX to slow down or change things up now that
they're marking 25 years as a band, and its members have all said
hello to 40. The music? Still loud, fast, crunchy, careening, melodic,
Cali-style punk-rock. The humor? Still self-deprecating to the hilt:
Frontman "Fat Mike" (a.k.a. Michael Burkett) continues to embrace his
given nickname despite never having been that fat, and the quartet
titled its latest disc They've Actually Gotten Worse Live! The
attitude? Still snotty and defiantly anti-establishment: Fat Mike
started both Punkvoter.com and the Rock Against Bush movement; and
NOFX: Backstage Passporta current docu-series on Fuse, which shows
the band getting into dicey situations while performing in Peru,
Turkey, Korea, and elsewherecame about because, as Fat Mike put it,
"Playing the U.S. isn't as dangerous as it used to be. It's all about
corporate rock, and it sucks." I'm guessing Seattle won't provide the
danger he so desperately craves tonight, but hey, you never know
With
No Use for a Name and American Steel. Showbox SODO, 1700 First Ave.
S., 382-7877. 8:30 p.m. $20 adv./$22. All ages. MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG
Sat., May 10, 8:30 p.m., 2008