Fat Wreck Chords released The Songs of Tony Sly: A Tribute today to honor the San Jose singer who fronted No Use For A Name before he passed away in 2012.

The album features 26 songs Sly wrote, performed by many of his peers on the punk circuit, including NOFX, Bad Religion, the Bouncing Souls, Rise Against, Lagwagon and Pennywise.

“I wanted to make a tribute for Tony because he’s one of the best songwriters I know,” said Fat Mike, owner of Fat Wreck Chords, who organized the tribute album and previously released several No Use For a Name and Sly recordings. “I think he deserves a lot of credit for what he did.”

Profits from the release will be donated to the Tony Sly Fund, created to assist Sly’s wife Brigitte and their two daughters.

Track listing:
01. Karina Denike – “Biggest Lie”
02. Mad Caddies – “AM”
03. Strung Out – “Soulmate”
04. Rise Against – “For Fiona”
05. Bad Religion – “Let It Slide”
06. NOFX – “The Shortest Pier”
07. Snuff – “On The Outside”
08. The Bouncing Souls – “Homecoming”
09. Old Man Markley – “Feel Good Song of the Year”
10. Lagwagon – “Discomfort Inn”
11. Teenage Bottlerocket – “Via Munich”
12. Frank Turner – “Keira”
13. Get Dead – “Premedicated Murder”
14. Pennywise – “Devonshire and Crown”
15. Alkaline Trio – “Straight from the Jacket”
16. Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem – ” Capo 4th Fret”
17. Yellowcard – “Already Won”
18. Swingin’ Utters – “Not Your Savoir”
19. The Flatliners – “Fireball”
20. Simple Plan – “Justified Black Eye”
21. Useless ID – “Frances Stewart”
22. Jon Snodgrass & the Dead Peasants – “On The Outside”
23. American Steel – “Dark Corner”
24. Frenzal Rhomb – “Flying South”
25. Anti-Flag – “Toaster in the Bathtub”
26. Joey Cape with Scorpios – International You Day”

More details on the album.

Fat Wreck Chords label head and NOFX front man Fat Mike announced today that he is planning a tribute album for No Use for a Name singer/guitarist and San Jose local Tony Sly, who died unexpectedly last year.

In a blog post today on the Fat Wreck Chords website, Fat Mike wrote that punk acts Bad Religion, Lagwagon, Dropkick Murphys, Rise Against, NOFX, Frank Turner, Pennywise, Gaslight Anthem, Bouncing Souls and about 20 more bands are involved with the project:

Tony was a fucking amazing songwriter and one of my dearest friends. His death was traumatic. Horrible. I’ve had friends die, but this was different. Tony wasn’t finished.

I’ve been putting together this tribute comp for some time. It’s incredible how many bands have called me wanting to be on it. It’s been my absolute privilege to put this together. What I wanted to show on this record is how amazing Tony’s songs are. You can tell a song is great when it can be done in any style and it’s still great. That’s what this comp is about. All the bands are doing No Use for a Name songs or Tony Sly songs with their own take. It’s a real tribute to his songwriting.

I wanted to make a comp that Tony would be so proud of. These bands were his closest friends and his favorite bands. I thank all of them for stepping up and showing their love and respect to Tony and his family. It’ll come out in a few months and we’re gonna have a fucking crazy party when it does. You’re all invited to do the same.

Sly was 41 years old when he died on July 31 last year. No cause of death was released.