After four decades of chaos, satire, and redefining punk on their own terms, NOFX are turning their career-spanning documentary into an equally ambitious musical release. The band has officially announced 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up: Soundtrack + Score, arriving August 28 as a companion piece to their documentary film of the same name. For a full list of screenings and ticket info in North America and around the world, please visit https://www.
The release is far more than a standard soundtrack. Structured as a sprawling double LP, the project combines two separate experiences: a 15-song soundtrack packed with classic NOFX material, demos, live recordings, and unreleased tracks, alongside an 11-song original orchestral score composed by Fat Mike and longtime collaborator Matt Nasir.
Leading the release are two brand new NOFX songs, “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up” and “We Did It Our Way.” The latter is especially significant, described in the announcement as the final NOFX song ever intended to be performed live. The title track is already making waves at alternative radio and across iHeartRadio platforms, offering fans one more blast of the sharp humor and emotional self-awareness that defined the band’s catalog.
The soundtrack also digs deep into the archives. Rare demos like “Secret Society” and “On The Road,” a cover of “La Bamba,” and live recordings of staples like “Linoleum” give the release the feel of both a celebration and a time capsule.
What makes this project especially unique is the score itself. Fat Mike stepping into orchestral composition territory feels unexpected but strangely fitting for a band that spent its entire career refusing to stay boxed into punk orthodoxy. According to the release, the score was recorded alongside a full orchestra, pushing his songwriting into entirely new territory.
The soundtrack arrives alongside a theatrical run for the 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up documentary, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year before landing screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival marketplace. Upcoming screenings across North America have already sold out months in advance, turning each showing into something closer to a community event than a traditional film release.
That communal spirit sits at the center of the project. In statements included with the announcement, Fat Mike emphasized the importance of shared experiences and DIY culture, explaining that the band wanted screenings to feel more like NOFX shows than standard theater events. El Hefe echoed that sentiment, describing the documentary and soundtrack as a “proper send-off” created entirely on the band’s own terms.
For a group that built its reputation on rejecting industry norms, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up: Soundtrack + Score feels like an appropriately unconventional closing chapter. Equal parts retrospective, soundtrack, live album, demo collection, and orchestral experiment, the release captures the full scope of what made NOFX one of punk’s most enduring and influential bands.
Whether you grew up on Punk in Drublic or discovered the band somewhere along the endless road of DIY punk culture, this project feels less like nostalgia and more like documentation of a movement that never really played by the rules in the first place.
