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When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually having this exchange with one of them. Zac Carper, The bands guitarist and singer (well, one of ‘em) would hand you a red cup , throw an arm around your neck and probably end up blurting out how fucked up he was. Their set list would read more like a grocery list of party supplies than a list of songs: “Cocaine. Cheap Beer. Chinese weed. Four Loko.”

After a few years of being a band Zac still plugs in his pedals attached to a skate deck (“Pedal board”, get it?) and says “Hi We’re FIDLAR: F-I-D-L-A-R. It means ‘Fuck It Dog, Life’s a Risk”. Seeing a FIDLAR set consists of drinking and dancing with people that are twice as drunk as you are while the band rips through songs about what they know best: The girl doesn’t call, my ex is a whore, I lost my phone, my car is a piece of shit, my friends are pieces of shit, I do too many drugs, I’m really awkward, I love Del Taco.

You can listen to our interview with them at Fun Fun Fun Fest here.

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

03/08 – Milan, Italy – Lo Fi
03/09 – Maastricht, Netherlands – Bruis Festival
03/10 – Zeewolde, Netherlands – Where The Wild Things Are Festival

SXSW

3/13 – 5:30pm, Thrasher/ Converse Party @ Scoot Inn
3/14 – 8:40pm Pitchfork @ 1100 Warehouse
3/15 – 10pm, Filter/Tmblr @ Clive Bar
Sat.
3/16 – 4pm, Hype Hotel/Portals @ The Hype Hotel
3/16 – 10:15pm, Burgermania @ Hotel Vegas

3/17 – Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX *
3/19 – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ *
3/20 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA *
3/21 – Casbah – San Diego, CA *
3/22 – Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA *
3/23 – Burgerama @ The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
3/27 – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO *
3/28 – Waiting Room – Omaha, NE *
3/29 – 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN *
3/30 – Rave Bar – Milwaukee, WI *
4/01 – Subterranean – Chicago, IL *
4/02 – Basement – Columbus, OH *
4/03 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH*
4/04 – Magic Stick (Lounge) – Detroit, MI *
4/05 – Horshoe – Toronto, ON *
4/06 – Salla Rosa – Montreal, QC *
4/08 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA *
4/09 – Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA *
4/11 – Glasslands – Brooklyn, NY *
4/12 – Shea Stadium – Brooklyn, NY *
4/13 – Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington, DC *
4/15 – Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA *
4/16 – Mercy Lounge – Nashville, TN *
4/18 – Fitzgerald’s – Houston, TX *
4/20 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ *
4/21 – The Smell – Los Angeles, CA*

* – with Wavves