Fidlar
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 Elvis Kuehn at Lollapalooza 2012 |
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| Genre (s) | Garage punk |
| founding | 2009 |
| Website | www.fidlarmusic.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Zac Carper | |
| Brandon Schwartzel | |
| Elvis Kuehn | |
| Max Kuehn | |
Fidlar ( spelling : FIDLAR ) is an American skate punk and garage punk band from Los Angeles currently under contract with Mom + Pop Music in the USA, Wichita Recordings in the UK and Dine Alone Records in Canada.
Band history
Elvis and Max Kuehn are the sons of punk musician Greg Kuehn, who was active at TSOL for a while . Together with Brandon Schwartzel and Zac Carper, they founded the band Fidlar in Los Angeles in 2009 , parallel to the skatepunk revival with bands like Cerebral Ballzy and Trash Talk . The name is an acronym for Fuck It Dog, Life's a Risk (something like: "Fuck it, boy, life is risk"). The group is influenced by The Offspring , Green Day and Blink-182, among others . Initially, the group began marketing their music in a DIY style on their own until they were signed to Mom + Pop Music in 2012. There her self-titled music album was released, which reached number 5 on the Top Heatseekers charts and number 38 on the independent charts in the United States . This was followed by tours with, among others, The Pixies , The Hives and Wavves . At the beginning the band was mainly known as a party punk band, plus the drug addiction of their singer Zac Carper. It was only in the course of the next few years that they broke away from this image.
Work on the second album dragged on slowly. More than 30 songs were written, but many had to be discarded because they didn't want to repeat themselves. The album was also the experienced music producer Jay Joyce (including Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood produced) and had thus more rock -character than its predecessor, which is not on the fidlar-usual PopPunk waived. Carper became abstinent, an experience that he processed in the songs Leave Me Alone and Sober . The album was finally released in 2015 under the name Too . It ranked 124 on the Billboard 200 and reached the top 50 on the UK charts . Fidlar became known to a wider audience when their song Cocaine - in whose video Nick Offerman plays - was selected for the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto V , which has sold well over 50 million copies to date.
Discography
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Albums
- 2013: FIDLAR ( Mom + Pop Music [US], Wichita Recordings [EU], Dine Alone Records [Canada])
- 2015: Too (Mom + Pop Music [US], Wichita Recordings [EU], Dine Alone Records [Canada])
- 2019: Almost Free (Mom + Pop Music [US], Wichita Recordings [EU], Dine Alone Records [Canada])
EPs
- 2011: DIYDUI (White Iris)
- 2012: Don't Try EP (Mom + Pop Music [US], Wichita Recordings [UK])
- 2012: No Waves / No Ass (7 "; Mom + Pop Music)
- 2012: Shit We Recorded In Our Bedroom
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FIDLAR Free Up New Song, Join Our Loving Mom + Pop Family ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mom + Pop Music (English)
- ↑ Meet FIDLAR ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Fidlar at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b T. Cole Rachel: Q&A: FIDLAR's Zac Carper On Kicking Drugs, Staying Punk, And Sophomore Slumps. Stereogum, August 26, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ^ Review by Timothy Monger at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b US charts / UK charts
