NFC, your absolute FAVORITE NYC SKA trio was born during the same Bush administration that brought you the joys of American Idiot and Eminem, at local educational staple and former insane asylum, the College of Staten Island. Yes (most) graduated and became the well-adjusted adults you know and love today...🫠🫠
During the group's tenure of Licensed to Ill repute at CSl,NFC saw itself transform from a 90s-esque third wave ska outfit with a full horn section into the grittier skrunge/skacore version of now. This ain't your grandpappy's ska, so leave the sus-penders at home, Ace and maybe consider bringing that jock strap someone strapped on your head last week.
HOWEVER...
In light of our quinceañera which every giiirrll only gets to celebrate ONCE (and Jaime IS hispanic and never got one when he was a girl... so sad), we teamed up with almost all of the original members, including our main horn section, and picked 11 tunes that were all written between 2008 and 2012. Ok, so maybe dig those suspenders and fedoras out the trash, but add spikes or something at the very least.
Alan was always bass, but Jaime used to just play rhythm and lead guitar back then (all pics above pre transition). The band lost all but these two nutjobs after 2013 since it seemed ska decided to jump off a cliff as it does sometimes to get attention like a whiny teenager, soJaime and Alan kept NFC running on fumes knowing ska would probably recover (just maybe be hospitalized for a while).
We hope you enjoy the sounds of our possibly, probably, almost definitely inebriated college selves on these tracks. There's a lot of raw emotion that even we related to hearing them now.
Recorded at CUNY CSI, Version City Studios, and the Institute for Audio Research.
Do you want a part 2?? We have many more songs...
yassss queen
hellllll yurrrrr
nah give us new stuff
