Take the melody of The Descendents, some of Bad Religion’s political sense, add a handful of pills and there’s NOFX.

Screwing up since 1983, the Californian group is one of the most influential bands in the history of punk rock. Rising in popularity during the 90’s, but never signing to a major label, remaining true to punk’s DIY roots, they released most of their stuff themselves or through Epitaph Records (owned by fellow punk rocker Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion).

Spreading sarcasm in every lyric, NOFX’s music range from hardcore punk to pop punk and even ska, but they’ve been doing it for so long and so characteristically that from the early days to their newest record, Single Album, it’s instantly recognizable: it sounds like NOFX.