# JFA Is Back With Its First Studio Album In Way Too Long ‘The Last Ride’ Out May 2023

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- Published: 2023-02-06T12:45:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **OG Skate Rock Band JFA Is Back With Its First Studio Album In Way Too Long**

#### **‘The Last Ride’ Out May 2023**

If you ever wondered what the hell happened to real from the heart, blazing fast,
solid running, tight as nails, old school to the bone, genuine 1980s born and bred,
backyard pool inspired skateboard punk, let not your heart be troubled: It lives!

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**JFA** is back with their first studio album in way too long and you don’t even
have to be a hardcore skateboarder or old school punk aficionado to pick up the 
heavy sound they’re putting down. But it damn sure wouldn’t hurt.

The songs on **THE LAST RIDE** (out May 2023) range from the lying liars and their
deluded followers actively attempting to dismantle everything that ever made America
great, to barreling surf music, dewatered swimming pools, good punkers gone but 
not forgotten, and the searing truth that asphalt has taken a piece out of everyone
who’s ever ridden a skateboard down a hill.

But fret not, the album’s title does not indicate the imminent demise of the OG 
Skate Rock band that launched a thousand stage dives. As founding guitarist **Don
Redondo** puts it, _“Last ride refers to ‘one more’ at the end of a skate or a surf
session. You either bring it (get a killer ride) or sometimes go for it to the point
of slamming hard. Nobody does a safety run after saying ‘one more’ — while many 
skaters won’t even say ‘one more’ out loud (the mojo is that strong).”_

Or, as **Brian Brannon**, original JFA singer, practitioner of blatant vocalism,
two-time gracer of the cover of _Thrasher Magazine_, and the dude filmed rolling
down a slide multiple times into a bone dry cement desert pond in the 1989 Santa
Cruz Skateboards _Speed Freaks_ video says: _“Everyone should just live.”_

Driving, thumping, toneful bass on THE LAST RIDE is once again provided by **Corey
Stretz (The Blades, The Crowd, China White, The Outsiders)**, throwing down a melodic
rhythmic pummeling of the deep end.

Meanstreak-while, hard pipe-hitting, multitimbral, Animal from the Muppets, punk
rock style drums is provided by **Jamie Reidling**, who was once a teen drumming
delinquent hailing from the parking lot of the infamous Cookoo’s Nest. His musical
rap sheet rattles off the likes of **The Cadillac Tramps, Shattered Faith, Big Drill
Car, U.S. Bombs, Die Hunns, TSOL, and Devils Brigade** [with **Tim Armstrong** and**
Matt Freeman** of **Rancid**].

We’re talking tight, raging, musical, skate punkitude all around. Johnny Come Lately’s,
try to keep up.

Get THE LAST RIDE while it lasts.

Pre-orders launching soon.

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