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Bill Stevenson working on new NOFX record

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM (EST)

According to a bulletin from Descendents on their current status, drummer and producer Bill Stevenson is working on the next full length from NOFX. The bulletin doesn't give too much in the way of details but NOFX has been touring extensively in the past few years since the release of 2006's Wolves in Wolves' Clothing. Stevenson was also behind the boards for that album.

Other plans for 2009 include US shows in January and February and a UK tour for next spring.

Fat Wreck Chords (90 comments)

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You_Are_A_Loser (November 21, 2008)

Hope this is better than their previous.

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JayTee (November 21, 2008)

Notes to NOFX:

-Do not release a single fucking track on ANYthing else before it comes out.
-Do not include any songs previously recorded on your little 7-inch or Fuck The Kids type romps
-Do not pretend you're bad musicians, we've all heard the Decline
-Do not let Hefe spend our precious listening time practicing that stupid fucking tuba.
-When it comes out, actually tour, and furthermore, since you're NOFX and your tickets are impossible to get and awfully expensive for punk rock, do NOT pretend you're playing a basement show and purposely suck.
-Try out some new production techniques. There's been little variation in your sound since "So Long.....".
-Try and go, seriously, just one song without name-dropping. We get it Fat Mike. You listen to old punk rock.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

Hey NOFX (Fat Mike, we know you lurk on here!),
Listen to JayTree, he's right. I also have one more piece of advice... sit down and listen to Ribbed, Longest Line and White Trash and try really hard to make a record that has production values closer to those records (hey, it kinda worked for metallica)

p.s. also it would be awesome if you started playing "Death of John Smith" live. If you can pull off "The Decline", that one should be a piece of cake.

JayTee (November 21, 2008)

The death of John Smith is my favorite NOFX song hands down! The guitars are just nuts on there.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

Yeah, such a great song. I'd be happy to hear Stranded too.

I really hope Mike reads you comment and takes it to heart.

p.s.
I have to post this everytime i notice your link...
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/movieman/files/2008/07/battl efield-earth.jpg
I wonder where I could find a good codpiece?

JayTee (November 21, 2008)

Do yourself a favor. Rent Battlefield Earth, and download the accompanying mp3 from RiffTrax.com.

Also, I'd imagine my NOFX comments to be kinda snide if they read em, but whatever, I miss when they gave 70% and not 60%.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

Ditto. They're still great, but they really should lose that 60% shtick. It just gets annoying after a while. And they should stop singing about themselves too.

Yeah you suggested RiffTrax before and I totally forgot about it. After 3 more seasond of LOST (catching up my girlfriend before Jan 21st) I will rent it and do that.

If there's any band that should be able to forgive some snideness, it's NOFX.

AnonymousCoward (November 21, 2008)

Also they could uses their mesa mark 3 and 4 for guitar amplication. I prefer their mesa tone to their marshally(soldano ,tophat) tone

LinoleumMagazine (November 22, 2008)

Smelly?

freesandwich (November 21, 2008)

the_other_scott is not stoked

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IamMclovin (November 21, 2008)

Win!

the_other_scott (November 21, 2008)

actually i thought their last two records were leagues better than pump up the valuum or so long...

i just don't want to listen to their records with a bunch of sweaty, young republican frat boys.

(p.s. people that use buddyhead's joke without knowing that they're even stealing it from buddyhead shouldn't be stoked either)

Jonnyrawker (November 21, 2008)

So Long... is in my opinion their second best record (to Punk In Drublic). Wolves was lackluster.

badbrain (November 21, 2008)

I look at War on Errorism as being exactly equal with Pump Up the Valuum. So Long and Punk in Drublic are the two best I think. Wolves is the most boring of them all

SlackMFr (November 21, 2008)

I'd rather he be working on a new Descendents album!!!

kevgren (November 21, 2008)

Bronx Mowgli Simpson-Wentz.
Not kidding.

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blue_drink (November 21, 2008)

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20080908/293.we ntz.simpson.090808.jpg

I bet the baby is ugly.

SmellTheGlove (November 21, 2008)

The Jungle Book > The Bronx (Borough and Band) >This Baby.

TrueBeliever (November 21, 2008)

The wording is pretty bad here. I'm assuming they're referring to NOFX doing the US shows in January and Rebruary and the UK tour for the spring, but could it be the Descendents?

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badbrain (November 21, 2008)

I love Rebruary

telegraphrocks (November 21, 2008)

Scooby?

SlackMFr (November 21, 2008)

It's too cold in Rebruary.

crackpotdemagogue (November 21, 2008)

who gives a fuck about nofx, i want news on a new souls album

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MN_punkmaster-skaman (November 21, 2008)

They're not doing albums anymore.

http://www.punknews.org/article/29567

the_other_scott (November 21, 2008)

no shit.

HeyBarmold (November 21, 2008)

Good. War on Errorism and the Wolves sounded like cahca. They need a good producer.

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LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

Stevenson produced Wolves.

TrueBeliever (November 21, 2008)

Lol, even if he didn't know that, he could have at least read the article where it's mentioned.

HeyBarmold (November 21, 2008)

lawlz

HeyBarmold (November 21, 2008)

I meant Regaining Unconciousness. We need an edit button

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

agreed. We also need a spellchecker.

HeyBarmold (November 21, 2008)

fact.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

I want Donnell Cameron to produce a NOFX record again. I love the sound on White Trash. What happened to that guy?

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Crashtester (November 22, 2008)

He made Strung out sound horrible and went away.

spoon_of_grimbo (November 22, 2008)

what the blue monkey fuck are you talking about?! he produced an american paradox, which probably has the best production of any of their albums!!!

you're probably thinking of the guy who produced exile in oblivion, matt hyde. although he redeemed himself with the production on their latest one.

trip0r (November 21, 2008)

Where is said bulletin posted? Linkage?

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DrewXFishy (November 21, 2008)

yo be the descendents myspace friend yo!

jacknife737 (November 21, 2008)

Going to take a shot in the dark and say that i'm the only one who enjoyed their last two studio albums?

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TheMike (November 21, 2008)

I liked them at the time...

I don't like NOFX anymore, though... I tried putting in So Long... the other day, but couldn't leave it in for more than a couple minutes.

ohcomely (November 21, 2008)

i liked wolves in wolves clothing.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

I liked them... even though the last record had a weird flow to it. It does seem like they're trying a little too hard now.
I definitely liked Pump up the Valuum more than anything since. I'd be really stoked if they made another record that was a little different like "Heavy Petting Zoo".

mattxruin (November 21, 2008)

NOFX are one of my favorite bands. I lilked the last two records but didn't love 'em. War on errorism was the better of the two in my opinion. But I really like Bill Stevenson as a producer so hopefully this will be good.

thepinballwizard (November 21, 2008)

I liked them.
I love it when anyone disses organized religions.

the_other_scott (November 21, 2008)

i thought they were WAY better than pump up the valuum or so long and thanks for all the shoes....

JoelSweetheart (November 21, 2008)

NOFX is just a cartoon now. I have such a hard time taking their records seriously anymore, even the ones I used to love...

Mike_Killroad (November 21, 2008)

I liked the last two records. I do however, think that Fat Mike and the rest of the crew need to stop being so clean with production. I think that's why so many people hated the last two, they felt somewhat like novelty songs.

chorley (November 21, 2008)

wheres this bulletin?
Nofx tour? (booooooo)
or
Descendents Uk tour (Best Fucking Thing Ever!!!)

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chrisss (November 21, 2008)

Pretty sure it's NOFX: http://www.fatwreck.com/tour/single_artist/6

trip0r (November 21, 2008)

No

chrisss (November 21, 2008)

Yes

thepinballwizard (November 21, 2008)

Touring three months a year is extensive?

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TrueBeliever (November 21, 2008)

That whole world tour that got filmed for the show on Fused was something like 18 months. That's a crazy amount of time to be traveling around the world/"working" when you have a wife and/or baby kid back at home.

thepinballwizard (November 21, 2008)

But normally the band only tours for, like, three months a year. Plus, that tour that they did that documentary for on Fuse was two years old.

Tudor (November 21, 2008)

Propagandhi is not stoked.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

I just got a sent a rip of the new Chris Wollard album. Unfortunately I'm at work and can't listen to it yet. Did anyone pick it up at the fest? How good is it?

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10-4Eleanor (November 21, 2008)

Reason in my rhyme is the best song ever.

Wollard>Ragan by a mile.

Scruffy (November 21, 2008)

Errorism was terrible, but Wolves is one of their best albums. Definitely excited about this.

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deadXlast (November 21, 2008)

I actually like War on Errorism better than Wolves, which I get kind of bored with if I try to listen to it all the way through. But that's just me and my short attention span.

dX927 (November 21, 2008)

I get it, it's opposite day at Punknews.

bassthoven (November 21, 2008)

Descendents = top 10 bands of all time

blinkrules (November 21, 2008)

so are they still doing the "we're too punk for MTV" thing?

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

Does anyone else think chewing gum is the most annoying thing ever invented?
What the fuck is up with people that smack and pop that shit like they're in 2nd grade???! Fucking hell you morons! Can't you sit at you desk for 5 minutes without have to smack your gum like a fucking cow?!! I hate you all!!! I hope you fucking choke on it!!!

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bassthoven (November 21, 2008)

i don't know, there's a lot of stinky breath out there

the_other_scott (November 21, 2008)

i chew gum all day every day. its that or my breath smells like chinatown on a 100 degree day

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

I can handle gum if I can't hear the person chewing or popping it. I don't understand how it's so difficult for people to act civilized and chew with their mouths closed.

I used to think I had halitosis, but one of these solved all my problems...
http://www.drugstore.com/qxp44438_333181_sespider/de ntek/tongue_scraper.htm

the_other_scott (November 21, 2008)

i'm pretty quite. i don't think i have halitosis, i think i just always have a stuffy nose so i breathe through my mouth all the time.

LinoleumMagazine (November 21, 2008)

I also breathe through my mouth... probably not a good thing. But, I'm telling you, those tongue scrapers are crazy. You can pull nasty dark phlem stuff off your tongue for like literally 3 minutes every morning. I haven't had a bad breath issue since I started using that thing (unless my girlfriend is hard of smelling).

telegraphrocks (November 21, 2008)

I LOVE gum, but now I hate you.

Trident!

american_666_jesus (November 21, 2008)

Is it just me, or has IGN been all over the punk scene lately? Now they have an article about the first best songs from their 15 years of Bad Religion: http://music.ign.com/articles/932/932418p1.html

Dante3000 (rich) (November 21, 2008)

Wonder if it will sound like NOFX....Hmmm.
-Dante

someone-yeah (November 21, 2008)

forget nofx, post that bulletin!

DrewXFishy (November 21, 2008)

yo get fucking excited you pricks

this rules!!!!!!

joeski (November 21, 2008)

two words: Ryan Greene

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tombagel (November 23, 2008)

Agreed.

Cos (November 21, 2008)

NOFX not working with Ryan Greene?

Has hell frozen over?

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android (November 21, 2008)

welcome to two years ago.

tainthuffer (November 21, 2008)

These guys are still making relevant music and that's all there is to it.

Mammoth (November 21, 2008)

Nofx was a good band and all but they just need to break the fuck up... like now.

NoControl (November 21, 2008)

War On Errorism is my favorite from these guys, weird.

DrGunn (November 21, 2008)

i wish bill was working on a new ALL record instead. especially with scott!

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10-4Eleanor (November 21, 2008)

Milo.

SlackMFr (November 21, 2008)

Anyone but Scott! (I fucking hate his voice!)

Chad, Dave but especially Milo!

joemomma420666 (November 21, 2008)

I think WOE sounded good immediately, but didnt have lasting power. WIWC sounded too cluttered at first, but grew on me, and now i Like it a lotz.

scientistrock (November 21, 2008)

Who has plans for US shows? If you mean NOFX, then why publish this? I knew that. If you mean the Descendents, I'm going to shit my pants.

Gunner (November 21, 2008)

If history repeats itself this one should be pretty good. Their worst records seem to be sandwiched between their best work.

goatfish (November 21, 2008)

sweeet, look forward to hearing more about this.

ashleymhale (November 21, 2008)

I reported this yesterday to punknews.org. It was posted by the descendents as a bulletin on myspace. Here is the bulletin:

From: DESCENDENTS

Date: 20 Nov 2008, 02:41
Subject: contest-type thing winners, new stuff, etc
Body: Hi,

I decided to pick more than three winners for the contest where people added ALL, The Blasting Room, and Owned and Operated Recordings. The winners are...

Jeremy from Gainesville
Joey from St.
Petersburg
Heidi from Rochester
and
Becky from Baltimore

If you're one of these people, congratulations! I emailed you. If I didn't email you, but you fit that description, you have a doppelganger who's about to be wearing your shoes or whatever. We also have new merch stuff, including some t-shirts we found from the Stockage festivals. There are a few OG-D

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chorley (November 22, 2008)

ahhh lame its is nofx touring then - as if the world needs another nofx tour. Uk needs a descendents tour, ALL played in like 2002 and thats it. Cmon guys you can stay at my house, screw it you can stay at my mom's if you want

Crashtester (November 22, 2008)

Is it just me or does Ryan Greene not come off as a bitter old guy who dosent wanna work with big punk bands anymore.

teeto (November 24, 2008)

I think Errorism is fuckin great man, "idiots are takin over" and "separation of church and skate" are killer, don't know how anyone could say those tunes suck. AS long as they still sound like themselves while pushing the envelope a bit every album(Fatty's been whipping out cool basslines and progressing) I'll keep listening.
I also wish Donell or Ryan were involved.

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