are FIDLAR the best new rock band?

thinking about ordering that troller rec this afternoon. liking every track so far. #4 is gorgeous.

One of the best albums of this year definitely. Black Flag meets The Libertines with a bit of Sublime (attitude-wise, that whole LA hedonistic lifestyle of weed, beer and surfing) thrown in.

It's been a good few years for American guitar rock, with this lot and then The Gaslight Anthem and The Black Keys making their breakthroughs, and QOTSA making a comeback with maybe their best album yet. Shame Britain isn't on the same level, Palma Violets and Pure Love are good but it says it all when our leading bands are The Vaccines, The Courteeners, Jake Bugg and Mumford & Sons.

oh and someone said turbonegro and fidlar's whore song actually reminded me of some wildhearts song. wildhearts a band i haven't heard in a million years.

It's been a good few years for American guitar rock

Hmmm. I feel like I could be unpacking 2013 goodies for years to come. It seems like it's been a good year for lots of music. (I'm not sure I like rock enough to know a good year for rock when I see one, however.) But I feel like this is going to be one of those years when lots of people agree it's been good, but when they name the music that made it good, there's going to be this huge spread.

haha what

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5c632781ca/fidlar-cocaine-ft-nick-offerman?playlist=featured_videos

btw the way these guys are def the best new rock band

Saw them several times over the past twelve months (when they were opening up for the Hives all over California) and I do not like these guys. contenderizer OTM about Gearhead/Man's Ruin throughlines.

the hives are still around! who knew? they were fun.

fidlar = pubes hives

love the video, love the song, best new rock band w a bullet

lol, in a year they'll be the black lips

they remind me a tiny bit of oddfuture wolfgang whatever whatever - of course tons of differences but: young LA skater kids who play up being ridiculous party animal drug goons but are pretty obviously savvy and ambitious & tapped into how to self-promote via effortless-seeming jokey internet/homemade media

why do you hate them, Elvis? I can see them being grating live

ok i guess that was obvious then... now that i've actually googled them i see everyone is making that comparison.

I feel like being this exact kind of rock band has just become like a famous dramatic role in our culture, like doing Willy Loman on Broadway. Every few years some new faces will inhabit the role, but it won't really be new or exciting or have anything significant that it didn't have last time.

dude, its just rock & roll. there should be a thousand bands this good. and they should all go away after one single/one album and then another thousand should take their place. doesn't really happen like that anymore though. and unrealistic expectations get heaped on the 9 or 10 rockin' young bands worth listening to.

look at the hives! they were some sorta garage rock great white hope. when really they were just a cool rockin' little band from a little country with lots of cool rockin' bands. and then nobody ever talked about them ever again. until this thread! people are always looking for the ONE band they can crown king. i have no illusions like that. i'm just happy if i can hear one new band with a little pep. some vim. a sense of humor. i'll let the pitchfork people sort out what it all means.

I hear what you're saying, Scott - but The Hives wanted to be huge. "We're the best band in the world" was kind of their whole schtick - though they had a sense of humour about it. I think they even had a record produced by Timbaland or something? Most people probably missed it - but they did shoot for becoming a big deal. the push for a band to be king doofus isn't all external to the bands, and it's not like many bands want to just go away after one single or album. I think Fidlar probably have high hopes too.

But I definitely know what you mean - as a listener, all that stuff is pretty irrelevent, and every band with a little spark doesn't need to be the saviours of rock n roll. that thinking can definitely suck a lot of fun out of the whole thing

Fun band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=http://youtu.be/D2srovkhf0w

Let me try that again.

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Bah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2srovkhf0w

They were great in Minneapolis. Good punk songs, and with a crowd that seemed to be discovering slam-dancing for the first time all over again--really proto-slamming: pogo-ing plus the occasional crowd surfer.

New track--well, really a new old track--from the upcoming album + interview:

http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/fidlar-west_coast

And another new track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O_czrcaFA0

New album is terrific. "40oz. on Repeat" and "Sober," in particular, stand out on first listen.

lol, 8 months ago. understand why they'd get exactly 0 ilm traction tho.

spurred by scott's scott offerman thread, i just listened to their second album, too, which apparently came out last fall. it's good, really fucking dopey, but cheerful & catchy enough to excuse most sins of taste. and a hell of a lot more varied than i expected, with tons of clever, energetic songs polished to an appealing roughness. i would have loved it in my teens the way i loved the ramones, violent femmes, dead milkmen, the beastie boys and oingo boingo.

i've been wondering lately where to find this sort of rock today: nerdy as all holy hell but poppy enough for mainstream success, cartoon vibrant, iconoclastic, secretly ambitious and stupid smart. better than 21 pilots anyway.

There's a new Bad Sports album coming out soon, and that's one place I might look. I haven't heard it, so just crossing my fingers.

On second listen, this is basically the exact same riff from Cheap Beer. I'm big on Bad Sports as they seem to have potential to transcend the genre, but we all know what happened to the Replacements when they tried to do that. New Bad Sports album is out any day now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t27sBvLb3QY

I was very cynical and harsh at the beginning of this topic. Very rude and unnecessary of me. Apologies, Scott.

dig the bad sports & am psyched for new, but one of the things i like about the fidlar album is that it mostly sounds nothing like "garage rock" and was clearly made by actual children. kids deeply in love with their own childishness. there's no reverence for power pop, for vintage vibes, for much of anything, really. they give so few fucks that their fucklessness becomes a kind of super power. from song to song, i'm reminded of green day, weezer, eric's trip, beastie boys, sublime, ramones, squeeze, the exploding hearts, wavves, the beatles and everything in between. it's kind of breathtaking. and like old eminem, i can imagine it appealing to ill-behaved tweens everywhere.

at their most pop-punk formal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztlZq_qqu-4

wolf alice probably don't fit that description, but i love their songs. they are vibrant and ambitious and smart anyway. there is an underdog element to their songs too which kinda fits the nerd thing but has more to do with youth angst and sexual identity. but they aren't really rough at all.

and they aren't pop punk. more grunge pop.

but they are young and have pep and their videos are funny! and they sound nothing like the new radiohead album.

i only just heard them in the last week, yeah they are good! i had vaguely heard of them but probably never woulda checked them out 'cause their name sounds dumm.

i hadn't thought about this band in years, and then tonight i went to a show and saw a guy in a FIDLAR shirt and i thought, "huh ... right ... that FIDLAR band" (who i liked). and then i came home and this thread was revived. weird.

I hadn't thought about this band in years, and then last night I saw someone tweeting "Is there a band out there that fell off harder than FIDLAR? Second album was crap and it was a downward spiral from there." I loved their first album but I haven't heard a note since, so I don't know. Then I saw this thread revived.