Influential punk band announces final album and farewell tour with stop in Massachusetts

One of music’s most influential punk bands is coming to Massachusetts as part of its farewell tour.

After announcing the band’s final album ‘Smoke & Fiction’, X appears to be calling it quits after nearly 50 years in the music industry.

“The end is near,” the band said on Instagram, announcing a “Smoke & Fiction” tour named after the new album, which will be released on August 2.

The farewell tour is set to kick off Saturday, July 6 in Kansas City, Missouri, and conclude October 30 in Columbia, South Carolina. X will make a stop in Massachusetts to perform at the Wilbur in Boston on September 23.

The Los Angeles group, consisting of Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake, have released eight albums to date, with “Smoke & Fiction” being X’s ninth studio album.

“X was not only one of the most influential bands of the late 70s punk movement, but their music continues to be sonically groundbreaking,” the band’s website states. “The songs written during the band’s inception are as relevant and inventive today as they were in 1977.”

X is “known for an exhilarating blend of punk, rockabilly and blues, with a sound and style that has outlived the movement,” reads the band’s AllMusic bio.

The band enjoyed some mainstream success, with singles such as “Burning House of Love”, but influenced various genres, including punk rock, Americana and folk rock.

In 1991, music critic Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called X one of the most influential bands of its era. X’s first two studio albums, “Los Angeles” and “Wild Gift”, were included in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2003. “Los Angeles” was also ranked number 91 on Pitchfork’s “Top 100 Albums of the 1980s” in 2002.