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FIDLAR –“Whatever (Folk Song In C)” (Elliott Smith Cover)
It's fitting that while so many artists spent last Monday playing covers and sharing memories of Elliott Smith, the ever surly punk band FIDLAR show up a week late with their own tribute. Released via...
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FIDLAR –“If It Makes You Happy” (Sheryl Crow Cover)
AKA Fuck It Dog, Life's A Radically abrasive Sheryl Crow cover. FIDLAR have recorded their own version of Crow's 1996 single "If It Makes You Happy," complete with smooth, easy-listening verses and...
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Photos: FIDLAR @ Regent Theatre, Los Angeles 1/23/15
FIDLAR played their first show in ten months on Friday night at the Regent Theatre in Los Angeles, and our photographer Wilson Lee was there to capture the event. Looks like it got pretty rowdy! Check...
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Photos: Burgerama Four
Paul Carter">Burger Records held their fourth annual Burgerama festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana this past weekend. The two-day fest featured appearances from bands like Together PANGEA,...
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FIDLAR –“40 Oz. On Repeat”
It's been a little while since we've heard from L.A. punk rockers FIDLAR, who released their fun-as-hell self-titled album back in 2013. (Their "Cheap Beer" still rules hard.) But the band has just...
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FIDLAR –“40oz On Repeat” Video
FIDLAR is back with a badass new song and video to go along with it. "40oz On Repeat" surfaced briefly back in April and was quickly pulled offline, but it's here gain in all its snotty glory. The...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
It's not on the list because I'm not sure how good it is, but Nekrogoblikon's "We Need A Gimmick" video is a pretty fascinating attempt at going viral, wrapped up in a comedy video about the quest to...
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FIDLAR –“West Coast”
After jacking up our enthusiasm for sophomore album Too with "40 Oz. On Repeat" and its hilarious video, SoCal garage-pop all-stars FIDLAR have shared their second new track of 2015. The aptly named...
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FIDLAR –“West Coast” Video
California punk rockers FIDLAR have reloaded the snot and are about to come back with their sophomore album Too. After the awesome high-concept video for first single "40 Oz. On Repeat," they've gone...
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FIDLAR –“Drone”
FIDLAR's latest California party-punk rager "Drone" premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show today, and 50 minutes of audio from that broadcast has emerged. In addition to the song, there's also a bunch...
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FIDLAR –“Drone” Video
FIDLAR's latest track "Drone" premiered on Beats1 just yesterday, but the band has already shared a video to go along with it. Directed by Ryan Baxley in grainy 4:3, the four FIDLAR dudes star as...
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Watch A Goofy, Bloody Commercial For FIDLAR’s New T-Shirt
FIDLAR are nothing if not a funny band, and in conjunction with the lead-up to their next album, they've released an infomercial about their latest merch acquisition. The "Happiness Shirt" promises to...
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Q&A: FIDLAR’s Zac Carper On Kicking Drugs, Staying Punk, And Sophomore Slumps
Next month, California pop-punks FIDLAR will release Too, the follow up to their much-loved self-titled 2013 debut. As evidenced by early singles "40 Oz. On Repeat" and "West Coast" and "Drone," the...
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Watch FIDLAR Play An Energetic “West Coast” On Kimmel
Los Angeles punk rockers FIDLAR, fresh off releasing their sophomore album Too, were the musical guests on last night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and I honestly don't know why more late-night talk...
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Artist Portraits From Beach Goth 4
The fourth installment of the Growlers' Beach Goth festival went down this past weekend at Orange County's Observatory Grounds. Grimes headlined the fest with the Growlers and Die Antwoord, and she...
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FIDLAR & Bully –“Absolutely Cuckoo” (Magnetic Fields Cover)
Two leading purveyors of electrifying American power-chord rock, FIDLAR and Bully (pictured), are touring Europe together this month. To promote the joint venture they've teamed up for something...
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The Year In Drug Songs
Every new year brings with it a slew of new drug songs, because music tends to be written about the things we love, and a lot of people really love getting high. But music also tends to be written...
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The 50 Best Music Videos Of 2015
When I put this list together last year, the big story was the emergence of auteurs in the online era of the music video. For the past decade, music videos have mostly lived online, far away from the...
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The Best Stereogum Interview Quotes Of 2015
We interviewed a lot of people in 2015. I know this because, in order to compile this list, I read upwards of 60 Q&A's with a wide array of artists who would go on to define the year. A lot of the...
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FIDLAR –“Why Generation” Video
FIDLAR released their latest album, Too, back in 2015, and today the band debuted a new video for the song "Why Generation." The track is a meditation on what it means to be young in the 21st century...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
We're two days removed from the Super Bowl and -- more importantly, at least for the purposes of this column -- the Super Bowl halftime show, in which many, many people will work very hard to make a...
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FIDLAR –“Sabotage” (Beastie Boys Cover)
Chaotic LA punks FIDLAR have shared a cover of the Beastie Boys' 1994 Ill Communication track "Sabotage" as a dedication to Adam "MCA" Yauch, who passed away four years ago yesterday. Listen and...
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FIDLAR –“Punks” Video
LA noisemakers FIDLAR teamed up with a bunch of Flaming Lips collaborators and Oklahoma City-based artists for their new video for Too track "Punks." The video was shot at the Lips' art space The Womb,...
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15 Memorable Sets From Lollapalooza 2016
This year at Lollapalooza was a big one, with the festival adding an extra day for its 25th anniversary. It wasn't the 25th Lolla -- there were some years off between its inception as a touring...
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Watch FIDLAR Bash Out “West Coast” On Conan
For the people out there saying that at least punk rock will get better under a Trump presidency: No. Come on. It doesn't work that way. It's not like the genre had a great eight years under George W....
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FIDLAR –“Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle” (Nirvana Cover)
FIDLAR have new music in the works, but first they're sharing their cover of a Nirvana classic. The LA party-rockers have begun 2018 with a raucous rendition of "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On...
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FIDLAR –“Alcohol”
Los Angeles punk rockers FIDLAR have been missing in action for a little while. Their last album was Too, which came out way the hell back in 2015. A three-year break between albums isn't that song,...
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FIDLAR –“Have A Cigar” (Pink Floyd Cover)
FIDLAR debuted a cover of Pink Floyd's 1975 song "Have A Cigar" today. The LA-based punk band haven't released a full-length album since 2015's Too, but they careened back onto the scene a couple of...
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FIDLAR –“Too Real” Video
Over the last year, FIDLAR have been releasing a handful of tracks, the Los Angeles band's first new material since they put out their album, Too, way back in 2015. We've heard covers of Nirvana and...
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FIDLAR –“Can’t You See”
LA punk hellraisers FIDLAR have cranked out plenty of new songs this year -- "Alcohol," "Are You High?," "Too Real" -- but they haven't released an album since 2015's Too. Early next year, though,...
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FIDLAR Frontman: “No Selfies While I’m Performing”
The war rages on --- the timeless conflict between musicians and phone-wielding fans who strenuously attempt to document everything that happens at shows. A couple of weeks ago, Judas Priest frontman...
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SWMRS & Fidlar –“People” (The 1975 Cover)
At this point, it's almost a given that each 1975 single is going to sound pretty different from the others. But when they truly kicked off the rollout of their long-teased A Brief Inquiry Into Online...
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FIDLAR –“Sand On The Beach”
The gleefully obnoxious Southern California punks FIDLAR disappeared for three years after the release of their album Almost Free, but they’re back to their old hijinks now. Two months ago, FIDLAR...
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FIDLAR –“Centipede”
LA garage-punks FIDLAR shared a bunch of songs last year, all of them billed as singles from an upcoming EP. That EP is finally coming out on St. Patrick’s Day, when it will be the band’s first release...
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