Wall of Shame

Bands or labels we absolutely REFUSE to support and won't play. Here's why:

NOFX / and by extension Fat Wreck Chords:

-Fat Mike repeatedly informing his fans in the autobiography NOFX & The Hepatitus Bathtub that he has always done drugs and his doctors say he's "healthy" yet the man is far from mentally well. His denial regarding his multiple drug relapses sends a poor message to the youth who may foolishly believe that one can abuse a cocktail of drugs for a lifetime and still think of one's self as "healthy" as long as they can pass a physical screening without making their doctor scream. Mental health and physical health are two different, but connected, animals.

-For harboring a fan base of young insufferable left-wing fascists that think the hive-minded bullying of others for not agreeing lock-step with their political beliefs is OK.

-For gate-keeping and attempting to make the so-called "punk" scene an unwelcome place for those who don't subscribe to far-left ideology. He can stand outside the door to Chuck-E-Cheese all he wants but heck if anyone who earns their own living and actually matters even gives a damn about playing there for a bunch of freeloaders who beg for the results of your hard work to be given to them for free (while paying $150 a ticket to Fat Mike as if he and they are not being giant hypocrites).

-For disparaging and bigoted words about "pop punk" as a genre, despite writing numerous pop punk songs.

-For supporting Joe Biden and his fascist America sabotaging administration.

-For constantly bashing Trump while ignoring all of the corruption put forth by any politician who wasn't a Republican. 

-For being a singer for his entire life and still never learning how to actually sing.

-For operating his record label in over 3.5 million dollars worth of debt for nearly his entire career.

-For writing a multitude of songs bashing a religion he doesn't agree with (Christianity) while often touting his own Jewish heritage and cowardly admitting through song that he is deathly afraid to criticize Muslims.

-For writing so many songs about lesbians, which made people think he was some kind of punk rock hero, but the reality is more along the lines of getting bossed around by women who look like men, and by dudes who chop off their balls and wear dresses for sexual pleasure. It's your full right and freedom to do "the thing" but it's also my full right and freedom to dislike you for doing "the thing."

-For Fat Mike writing songs slandering his father and glorifying the abandonment of the man on his death bed despite the fact that he is also the very same man who gave Mike the money to start Fat Wreck Chords, which enabled his entire career of debauchery to begin with.

*Why do we hate Fat Mike so much? It's not so much that we "hate" him. It's more that we hate ourselves for once thinking he was someone worth looking up to, and the pathway such decisions led us down. He can live his life however the fuck he wants, blowing donkeys for all I care, but I wouldn't want my own son going down that path.

*Did Fat Mike ever even actually help any of the bands he signed? Or did he mostly take advantage of them by signing them to a label that did absolutely nothing to promote them. Maybe... MAYBE he really did sign Lagwagon because he liked them and wanted to help them. Don't get me wrong, I love Lagwagon's early albums, but if that's the biggest band on your catalog, you're not even trying very hard. Aside from signing them, Fat Mike did very little to actually get these bands out there versus using them as filler material to fund his own band's lifestyle of debauchery and debt. Over 6 million worth of debt, to be exact.

*In 2000 or 2001 at Warped Tour in Anaheim, CA, it was the first time I saw NOFX perform. I witnessed Fat Mike tell the major Los Angeles radio station, KROQ, to stop playing their music. KROQ had started playing "Bottles to the Ground" on the air for a short time period, and he told the crowd to give the KROQ booth a big middle finger saying "FUCK YOU! WE DON'T NEED YOU! STOP PLAYING OUR MUSIC!" What kind of bad-ass tells the radio to stop playing your band's music? I respected the hell out of that. "We don't need you and we don't want you!" he added.

Over the years, however, that respect would be chipped away before finally deciding to seek more masculine role models.

And in hindsight, especially considering Fat Mike's 6 million worth of debt, telling major radio to fuckoff seemed like a really dumb business move. Literally nobody outside of the niche punk community has even heard of NOFX these days, and half of the people who have heard of them don't like or listen to them.

Anyone and everyone who told me I wasn't "punk" during the pandemic was absolutely right. And I would NEVER want to be one if it means wearing a man-dress, creating a hostile climate against people who either had Covid already or refused to take the vaccine for their own personal reasons, or kissing Fat Mike's ring. 

"Fuck you! We don't need you, and we don't want you!"

Anti-Flag/ and by extension AF Records:

 -For piggy-backing on divisive and racist political propaganda during the 2020 pandemic and election cycle.

-For harboring a fan base of young insufferable left-wing fascists that think bullying others is OK.

-For gate-keeping and attempting to make the so-called "punk" scene a violently unwelcome place for those who don't subscribe to far-left ideology.

-For violent rhetoric towards non-Democratic supporters.

-For repeatedly encouraging their fan-base to 'kill fascists" during a 2020 election cycle that saw a nation on the brink of Civil-War where people were literally killed and/or violently targeted over political beliefs.

-For heavy partisan political bias, and writing entire albums about the atrocities of right-wing politicians while conveniently ignoring atrocities of left-wing politicians.

*Note: This was all written well before Justin Sane was exposed for predatory behavior, just one more of a long list of reasons we don't support him or anyone guilty by association with him.

The Offspring/ and by extension Nitro Records:

-For releasing altered versions of their music with vaccine propaganda and peer-pressure campaigns. IE: video of Noodles and Dexter Holland singing "Gotta Get 'Em Vaccinated" while riding in a helicopter together.

-For firing drummer Pete Parada allegedly for not getting vaccinated but then immediately touring and/or performing at festivals with un-vaccinated bands. #hypocrites

-For not just firing Pete Parada, but basically stabbing him in the back and taking the chickenshit road of having their management fire him while Dexter and Noodles ghosted him.

 

Green Day / and by extension Adeline Records (if it even still exists):

-For assisting and enabling Gavin Newsom and the state of California to defraud victims of the Los Angeles fires that destroyed homes. Green Day performed a show that was supposed to collect money to directly help the victims but none of that money allegedly ever made it to the victims. Source: Variety, Reddit (opinions/commentary)

-For selling a Donald Trump "Nimrod" shirt to "support Maui fire victims" while ignoring 3+ years of Joe Biden destroying our country and being the most corrupt president in American history. The guy clearly wasn't even the man in charge, that's not how voting is supposed to work. We elect the actual individual who is supposed to be leading the country. Otherwise we would've ended up with Mickey Mouse or Ronald McDonald sitting in the oval office a long time ago.

-For Billie Joe Armstrong telling Europe he wants to move out of the United States just a few months in to the Biden presidency but still trying to blame Donald Trump for the very shit Billie Joe encouraged his own fan-base to vote for in the first place. 

-For blind allegiance to Biden's Authoritarian War Regime.

-For Billie Joe looking like Ellen Degeneres, and often sounding like her too. ie: "I'm moving to Europe!"

-For Mike Dirnt's heavy suspicion of touring under a fake vax card while publicly supporting an environment that told the rest of us to get vax'd or lose our jobs and kill Grandma. (Likely not the only major artist to do so.) 

-For Tre Cool drumming for 40+ years and still not being able to do a half-way decent drum solo. Whatever little Mickey Mouse Club thing he thinks he's doing in their latest tours seems more like a 10-year-old at his first drum-recital than a man who made an entire lifelong career out of it.

 

Punk Rock Bowling Festival:

-For a 2021 vaccine peer-pressure campaign where they used members of various bands to pose for vaccine selfies in attempt to peer-pressure and coerce others in to taking the vaccine against their will. #coercion #peerpressure

Jello Biafra/ and by extension Dead Kennedys' back-catalog:

-For posing for a vaccine selfie in Punk Rock Bowling's vaccine peer-pressure campaign and being an unrelenting bigot about the vaccine, despite writing a song called "Government Flu." #hypocrite #falsepunk

-For immediately blocking anyone on social media who calls him out for his hypocrisy.

Teenage Bottlerocket:

-For going on CNN to announce that they were charging un-vaxxed fans in Florida $1,000 dollars a ticket while vaccinated fans paid normal price. #Fascism #WvereAreYourDocuments

Bigwig:

-Singer Tom Petta told us to "suck my scientific diiiiiiick" two months into the 2020 pandemic when questioned about his blind obedience to Fauci propaganda. #sexualharassment #notascientist #notTHEscience

Dropkick Murphys:

-For "dropping off" of Punk in the Park fest, but only doing so AFTER taking a paycheck to play at the very fest they were "dropping off of." That's not exactly putting your money where your mouth is.

-For dropping off of the fest because they are allegedly butthurt about the festival owner making a donation they allegedly "disagree" with. 

We say "allegedly" because it is our opinion that DKM only made this announcement because fans were starting to call them out for playing the festival. Maybe DKM really does hate Trump that much. Maybe. But they clearly don't hate him enough to sacrifice a payday. 

And their announcement of "dropping off the fest" means literally nothing, because they were never scheduled to be be performing at the remaining San Pedro date to begin with.

What I suspect is more than likely, is Ken Casey saw an angry mob forming, and that mob was starting to single out DKM as a band that "wouldn't want to play there if they knew about the festival owner's donation to Trump's campaign." Putting Ken in the tight spot of either playing the fest and upsetting the fans, or dropping off the fest and losing a paycheck. He tried to have his cake and eat it too, and fell flat to anyone with more than two brain-cells who can see through his false words. Actions speak louder than words, people.

Well, DKM was fully informed and still made a conscious decision to play the festival anyways. So I'm not sure how their fan-base thinks Ken Casey's statement before their set was anything other than a PR stunt (damage control) to avoid an angry mob turning on them, but it sure does paint all those idiot fans with the same brush for believing it.

*If you try to cancel a business or artist because they don't fall lock-step inline with your opinions, YOU are perpetrating the very fascism you claim to be against. Good job. Maybe read your favorite little Dead Kennedy's song title to yourself in the mirror, Nazi, and fuck off with your entitled "everyone needs to agree with me" mentality. It was never OK.

Hayley Williams/ and by extension Paramore:

-For making bigoted and hostile comments towards those in her fan base ("you're dead to me") who don't agree with her political ideology. 

-For empty and insufferable virtue signaling.

-For literally reading a script on stage while doing the thing mentioned in the previous bullet-point.

-For complaining about something nearly every time she opens her dumb little mouth in the media from 2021-2023.

-For trying to cancel Fat Mike over a joke he made about her on Warped Tour over 20 years ago despite attending multiple NOFX shows throughout that time-frame. Hey Haley, we hate Fat Mike too, but even we can admit that your failed attempt to cancel the guy 20 years after the fact was completely stupid. 

Billy (William) Skelly (Pomona, CA) aka KingRockPhoto, KingRockArt, TheKingRockPodcast, & LensBaby Ambassador (@thekingrockpodcast on TikTok & @kingrockart on Instagram):

-For relentlessly devoting every waking moment during the pandemic / Biden administration in attempt to cancel The Defiant, namely Pete Parada (former Offspring drummer) and Dicky Barret (former Mighty Bosstones frontman), because he is upset and hostile that they are outspoken advocates against Covid vaccine mandates. Billy Skelly went so far as to contact many people in the industry that Pete & Dicky work with, trying to get colleagues to disassociate with them. Just ask Pete or Dicky about KingRock's harassment, and they will tell you.

-For harassing women and other band photographers, one of which he/she/they saw get kicked out of the photo pit before laughing at them and claiming it was "the best night of" his/her/their life, which says more about him/her/they's sad life existence than anything else. 

-Billy Skelly was also witnessed first hand abusing a female concert photographer. All because he/she/they was upset that we re-shared one of her photos on our social media page and told bands to consider hiring her if they need photos.

-For doxing people he gets in online arguments with. Due to his/her/they relentless harassing of Pete & Dicky, Billy Skelly was told that he/she/they probably "deserves a taste of his/her/they own medicine." Oh boy, did this upset him/her/they. Shortly following this comment, the person who made the comment began receiving veiled threats and incredibly perverse harassment through social media DMs, which escalated in to receiving notices on various accounts that someone had tried to log-in, followed by a cryptic DM from a mystery account with a link to a doxxing website. He/she/they also upload a video of the person he targeted on his social media accounts in a blatant attempt to intimidate and harass. 

It would appear that Billy Skelly (he/she/they), upset about being called out for obsessive and perverse harassment of multiple people, continued to obsessively harass even more people by paying a Friend Finder website for mostly incorrect and/or outdated information, in an attempt to harass and intimidate the person who called him out for his highly abusive and sociopathic behavior.

-For interacting with people like Nelson Muntz in the following manner: "Haha! Your photos suck!" "Haha! We have the Top #200 podcast in the "Music Interviews" category on Apple podcasts!" As if that's anything to even brag about. LMAO!

-For harassing two or three Chino, California police officers who pulled over a vehicle with some criminal-alien-looking scumbags to interrogate them for a moving violation. Billy felt compelled enough to walk outside of his Pomona,CA home to sit amongst the overgrown weeds in his trashy-unkept and highly flammable lawn to record the situation while repeatedly mouthing off to the officers in a hostile manner. Billy's anger at the officers appears motivated by the fact that Billy himself/herself/theyself had received a ticket for a moving violation recently, which he/she/they mentions to the scumbags in the recording. The video was posted on KingRock's tiktok and IG pages on May 6, 2025.

-For getting blacklisted in the concert photography community for being an insufferable human-stain that nobody wants to associate with, and former colleageus have stated that "he used to be cool until 2020 broke his brain, now he just harasses people."

 

 

 

*If you still like any of these labels or artists, go ahead and listen to them. We really don't care. But you won't be hearing about them here.

We would obviously never encourage anyone to do the same type of things to anyone on this list, such as being a completely annoying and irritating SOB in the same manner as they have done to others. Never.

We believe in karma. In most cases, the simplest response is to simply stop listening to them or giving them any attention.*