Fat Mike

Best known as the frontman of <a href="spotify:artist:4S2yOnmsWW97dT87yVoaSZ">NOFX</a>, Fat Mike is a snarky -- albeit very funny and talented -- punk rock musician. Born Mike Burkett in 1967, the Southern Californian began his musical career in high school with the band False Alarm. In 1983, he formed <a href="spotify:artist:4S2yOnmsWW97dT87yVoaSZ">NOFX</a> with Eric Melvin and Erik Sandin. Relentless and D.I.Y. in the strictest sense, <a href="spotify:artist:4S2yOnmsWW97dT87yVoaSZ">NOFX</a> became an international sensation, ultimately leading to Mike starting the privately run <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fat+Wreck+Chords%22">Fat Wreck Chords</a> label. The band and label thrived, with no signs of stopping, well into the second decade of the 2000s. On top of performing and recording in <a href="spotify:artist:4S2yOnmsWW97dT87yVoaSZ">NOFX</a>, Mike also played bass in the all-star punk cover group <a href="spotify:artist:0cOVRC8EOwDwXrs3JTrRN5">Me First and the Gimme Gimmes</a> and made headlines appearing on-stage and provoking audiences in character as Cokie the Clown, a downtrodden clown with severe issues -- the least of which being his drug dependency problem. As well as juggling his multiple projects, in 2012 he scored the ragtime soundtrack to Rubber Bordello, a pornographic period piece set in the early 1900s. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi