NOFX Similar Artists

Lagwagon - 100% match to NOFX

Rancid - 97% match to NOFX

Lars Frederiksen (guitar), Brett Reed (drums), Matt Freeman (bass) and Tim Armstrong (25 November 1966, Oakland, California, USA; vocals/guitar) provide street-level punk with their ideas informed and inspired by a youth of blue-collar poverty in Albany, California, USA. Armstrong and Freeman (often under the alias Matt McCall) had formed their first band, Operation Ivy, in Read more

Pennywise - 87% match to NOFX

This Hermosa Beach, California, USA-based band was fated to be the perpetual bridesmaid of the punk revival. While Green Day and Offspring were enjoying huge commercial success in the mid- to late 90s, Pennywise struggled to overcome well-publicised internal problems which ultimately led to the suicide of Jason Thirsk in 1996. The band was formed in 1988 by Thirsk (25 Decemb Read more

No Use for a Name - 84% match to NOFX

Bad Religion - 82% match to NOFX

This US hardcore band was formed in 1980 in the suburbs of north Los Angeles, California. Their first incarnation comprised Greg Graffin (Gregory Walter Graffin III, 6 November 1964, Racine, Wisconsin, USA; vocals), Brett Gurewitz (b. 12 May 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA; guitar), Jay Ziskrout (drums) and Jay Bentley (b. 6 June 1964, Wichita, Kansas, USA; bass), with th Read more

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - 73% match to NOFX

Good Riddance - 69% match to NOFX

Guttermouth - 66% match to NOFX

Punk pop was popularized in the mid- to late 90s by chart-topping US bands such as Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink-182, as they mixed sophomoric humour with reckless yet anthemic rock. Other bands had been around for just as long mining the same territory, such as the Huntington Beach, California-based outfit, Guttermouth. Read more

The Vandals - 65% match to NOFX

The archetypal southern California pop punk band, Orange County veterans the Vandals have maintained an irreverent position over their lifetime and while being avowedly anti-political, they nonetheless aim continuous pot shots at likely targets such as self-important punks, domestic violence, social inadequacy, the MTV generation, and the Rollins Band. Read more

Propagandhi - 63% match to NOFX

Millencolin - 61% match to NOFX

The Bouncing Souls - 61% match to NOFX

Of the multitude of pop punk bands that emerged during the 90s, the majority seemed to come from the west coast of the USA, but there was a number of east coast counterparts during this era, such as the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Bouncing Souls. The band has been going strong in one form or another since 1989, when Greg Attonitoi (vocals), Pete Steinkopf (guitar), Bryan Ki Read more

Strung Out - 59% match to NOFX

The 90s saw a plethora of melodic punk bands emerge from southern California, USA, one such act being the quintet Strung Out. Comprising Jason Cruz (vocals), Jake Kiley (rhythm guitar), Rob Ramos (guitar), Chris Aiken (bass), and Jordan Burns (drums), Strung Out formed in 1992 and within a year had released an independent single on their own. The track caught the attention of N Read more

Teenage Bottlerocket - 58% match to NOFX

Descendents - 57% match to NOFX

Los Angeles, California, USA punk band, formed in 1978, whose first stage of development was as a three-piece. Frank Navetta (vocals/guitar), Tony Lombardo (vocals/bass) and Bill Stevenson (drums) played power pop along the lines of the Buzzcocks. It was this line-up that recorded the debut ‘Ride The Wild’ single, and they collaborated with singer Cecilia for some six Read more