FIDLAR is Zac Carper, Elvis Kuehn, Brandon Schwartzel, and Max Kuehn. Elvis and Zac met at Kingsize Soundlabs in LA and recorded a ton of demos with the band before playing a live show. Their first show was on a FMLY bike ride at a skatepark in Culver City. Three years later the band has played with Black Lips, OFF!, Japanther and toured with The Hives. They’ve released two EP’s and just got back from touring Europe.
Listening to them, you can tell that the band did their homework on punk rock and seem dead set on inflicting lessons on anyone willing to listen. Any given song will give you a Germs influenced guitar solo, the catchy “Ooo’s” and “Ah’s” of The Misfits , and lyrics in the same family as Black Flag’s “Six Pack” and “TV Party” . On the same token they can just as easily be compared to any of the bands they cover (Blink 182, FEAR, CCR, Warron Zevon), yet it all comes across entirely their own: Surfier, Faster, more fuzzed out, more personal and a lot more drunk.
FIDLAR’s first LP is coming out via Mom + Pop and Wichita recordings. Recorded at their home studio, The album is set to be 14 tracks long and out January 22nd. FIDLAR are your dumbass friends that find a beer, scrape the shit off their shoes, and tell you how the hardest thing about waking up late and trying not to fuck up your life is having to do it with no job, no money and everyone bumming your cigarettes.
Tour Dates
11-02 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-04 Dallas, TX – House of Blues %
11-08 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern %
11-09 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore %
11-12 Salt Lake City, UT – The Grand %
11-14 Columbia, MO – Mojo’s
11-15 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant #
11-16 Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts #
11-17 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall #
11-19 Chicago, IL – House of Blues #
11-21 Cleveland, OH – Cambridge Room #
11-23 Philadelphia, PA – TLA #
11-27 New York, NY – Irving Plaza #
11-28 Boston, MA – House of Blues #
12-01 Paris, France – Espace B
12-02 Utrecht, Holland – Le Guess Who Festival
12-04 London, England – Dingwalls
12-06 Manchester, England – Soup Kitchen
12-07 Glasgow, UK - The Cathouse
^ with Pangea, the Shrine and Meat Market
% with Delta Spirit
# with Delta Spirit and JEFF The Brotherhood
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