FIDLAR - Alcohol

1.    Who are FIDLAR?

FIDLAR are a punk band from Los Angeles who have recorded two albums. Alcohol (April'18) is a stand alone single.

2. What kind of track is Alcohol?

Alcohol is a hard rocking number as subtle as a cunt punt. Pissed Jeans' The Bar Is Low meets Beastie Boy's No Sleep Till Brooklyn. A throbbing chorus full of cock rock aggression that builds to a yell-along gang chorus. Primitive.

3. Who do FIDLAR sound like?

SWMRS, The Orwells, and WAVVES.

4. What is the good word from the press?

“Raw and unconfined and goofily fun” – Stereogum.

“You can’t be more direct than this punk fierce anthem” – Rock NYC.

“A gut-puncher” – Far Out.

5. Which bands lit their fire?

Beastie Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Black Flag, The Black Lips, and Jay Reatard.

6. Why should I listen to Alcohol?

You are a FIDLAR fan. You like a song that can't count past it's fingers and toes.

7. What other bangers do these lads have?

Why Generation and 40 oz On Repeat.

8. Any more words?

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is credited by FIDLAR singer Zac Carper with helping him quit heroin. Voice of experience I suppose. Talking about junkies FIDLAR did a killer cover of Nirvana's Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle. 

“I love waking up in some randoms home,

And I’ll pack a cone and hit it to the dome”

VANT are a political punk band from London, England. Talk Like Thunder is the title track from their mini-album Talk Like Thunder (October'17). VANT sound like Spring King and FIDLAR although Talk Like Thunder has a more mainstream Britpop sound not completely unlike Blur or Oasis and is more delicately constructed than the bangers from their debut album. 

“Tell me the meaning of life,
Is it in the water-flow, the baby-grow, or mortgaged home,
Or in the smile of your debt ridden wife?”

Spring King - Detroit

    1.    Who are these rock gods? 

     Spring King are a post-punk band from Manchester, England. Detroit (May'16) is the second single from their debut album Tell Me If You Like To (June'16).

    2. What kind of tune have we got on our hands?

     Detroit is 'hey diddle, diddle, straight up the middle' garage rock'n'roll. Deliciously distorted guitar hammers out a primitive riff and the all in chorus is stickier than a rapist in church. Pure mindless fun.

    3. Who do Spring King sound like? 

     Public Access TV. Animal House and The Vaccines on the outside.

    

    4. What have the wanna be's said about Detroit? 

    “Fizzling and crackling with energy” – Clash Music. 

    “Fuzzy, raw, frenetic and cheerful” – London The Inside. 

    “A break-neck paced, fuzz-pop singalong” – Northern Transmissions. 

5. Who puts the bang in Spring King's buck?

Spring King's main influences are The Beach Boys, Arcade Fire, Ty Segall, The Black Lips and The Clash.

6. Why should I give Detroit a passing glance?

Detroit will make you shake your ass and feel sixteen.

7. Do Spring King have any more barn burners?

They so do. Rectifier is the one you need. Who Are You? has got what you want. Get amongst.

8. Any more words pilgrim?

Get tah fuck. 

“No scales can balance out my destiny”

The Living End are a punk band from Melbourne, Australia, and one of the finest bands to walk God's green earth. Influenced by The Clash, Iggy Pop, The Who and The Jam and with a rockabilly backbone, a punk soul and anthemic choruses, they are one of Australia's finest rock bands ever. In May of 2016 the band released their seventh album Shift and the boys are as strong as ever. Roll On was the second single from the legends second album Roll On (2001) and is a song Ultimate Guitar describe as "a classic."

“We’ll roll on with our heads held high,

Our conscience in the gutter,

Our dreams up in the sky”