FIDLAR will make their network television debut on Monday, September 28th with a performance of their song “West Coast” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. To watch, tune in to ABC at 11:35p /10:35p CST (check local listings).
FIDLAR’s second album Too was released on September 4th and was the No. 1 Album on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums Chart, which tracks the week’s top-selling albums by new or emerging acts. Too is available now via Mom + Pop Records HERE.
FIDLAR is currently on the road for an extensive headlining U.S. tour that will wrap on Halloween with a two-night hometown stand at the Regent Theater. In November the band will embark on a European tour including a headlining date at London’s historic Forum. Tickets for all dates are on-sale now and the band will continue to tour the world throughout 2016. See below for a complete list of upcoming dates.
Upcoming Live Dates
09/22 – Theatre Fairmount – Montreal, QC
09/24 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
09/26 – Webster Hall – New York, NY
09/27 – Boston Calling Festival – Boston, MA
09/28 – The Black Cat – Washington, DC
09/29 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
10/02 – The Masquerade – Hell Stage – Atlanta, GA
10/03 – High Dive – Gainesville, FL
10/05 – Club Downunder – Tallahassee, FL
10/06 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
10/10 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX
10/13 – 89th Street Collective – Oklahoma City, OK
10/15 – Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
10/16 – The Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
10/17 – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
10/19 – The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
10/22 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
10/23 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA
10/25 – Beach Goth Festival – Orange County, CA
10/28 – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
10/30 – The Regent Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
10/31 – The Regent Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
11/10 – O2 Academy Bristol – Bristol, United Kingdom
11/11 – The Ritz – Manchester, United Kingdom
11/12 – Garage – Glasgow, United Kingdom
11/14 – The Forum – London, United Kingdom
11/15 – The Institute – Birmingham, United Kingdom
11/17 – Posthof – Berlin, Germany
11/19 – Trianon – Paris, France
11/21 – Sonic City Festival – Kortrijk, Begium
11/22 – AB Club @ Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium
11/23 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, Netherlands
FIDLAR is Zac Carper (guitars/vocals), Elvis Kuehn (guitars/vocals), Brandon Schwartzel (bass), and Max Kuehn (drums). Since forming in 2009, FIDLAR quickly became one of the Los Angeles music scene’s most celebrated live acts thanks to their raucous live shows, which often concluded with the majority of audience members joining the band on-stage. Since formation, the band has toured the world and played with The Pixies, The Hives, Black Lips, OFF!, Jeff The Brotherhood, The Orwells, Wavves, The Delta Spirit, and more. Their debut self-titled full-length album was released in the U.S. in January of 2013 and debuted at #5 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, #2 on the Alternative News Artist Chart, and was the #1 most added release at CMJ. Rolling Stone immediately called FIDLAR “a band to watch”, asserting, “FIDLAR redefines the ‘Golden State’ skate/garage punk aesthetic for contemporary tastes.” The Los Angeles Times described their sound as “Bratty, amphetamine punk rock made to soundtrack the noise of crushing cans on ones forehead.” Noisey praised the band’s “ever-growing catalog of readymade garage-punk classics that draw omnivorously on a half century of bad-ass pop, from Phil Spector to Nirvana to the late, great Jay Reatard.” SPIN declared “These risk-taking, SoCal pop-punks unleash true sounds of liberty.”
“The new record doesn’t scrimp when it comes to giant hooks or appropriately buzzed-out guitars, but it does add an extra layer to finesse to the band’s reliably scrappy songs.” Stereogum
“An even more brutally honest FIDLAR, like the same word written with a thicker pen and darker ink.” Noisey
“Hefty helpings of both undeniable hooks and rip-roaring gusto.” Consequence of Sound
“When it comes to snotty aggression and booze-fueled distortion, the Los Angeles punk band is humming at peak power on its wild new album, Too.” LA Times
“The group keeps it’s lo-fi, distortion-tinged California odes intact on Too, while aiming a little higher (pun intended).'” Entertainment Weekly
