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  Hunger Games 2: Andrew W.K., Action Bronson, and FIDLAR Feel the Heat in Austin

  March 19, 2013 – During SXSW last year, Andrew W.K. got sloppy with Austin's food trucks. This year, we decided to up the gastronomical ante and invited W.K., rap-genius and gourmand Action Bronson, and try-anything L.A. skate-punks FIDLAR to see how much heat they could handle. The chicken wing masters at Wingzup were more than happy to test our intrepid musicians. …
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  FIDLAR Skate in Space Near Floating Pizza for Second 'Max Can't Surf' Video

  March 7, 2013 – FIDLAR's "Max Can't Surf" already received a video in May 2011, when the dubstep- and weed-referencing track appeared on the So Cal scuzz-poppers' DIYDUI EP. …
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  Wake Bake Skate Estate: At Home With FIDLAR

  March 5, 2013 – You can almost picture FIDLAR's house merely by scanning the song titles on their self-titled debut album — "Stoked & Broke," "Black Out Stout," "Paycheck," "Wait for the Man." Their group pad in L.A.'s Highland Park neighborood — which is located on the city's Northeast side — is as you might expect: beds in odd places, photos taped to the walls, weed stuffed in random containers. …
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  Metallica Recruit Deftones, Red Hot Chili Peppers for 2013 Orion Music + More Lineup

  February 25, 2013 – Metallica have tapped Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deftones, and Rise Against to co-headline the 2013 edition of the Orion Music + More festival. …
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  FIDLAR, 'FIDLAR' (Mom + Pop)

  January 24, 2013 – Anyone been to L.A. lately? Oh man, that place is a shithole — someone went and cleaned it all up! Downtown is now "Downtown!"; Jimmy Kimmel is the biggest freak on Hollywood Boulevard; and you can't even score under the Santa Monica Pier anymore. It's like someone went and made Lauren Conrad mayor. …
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  FIDLAR Faithfully Rebuild the Descendents' 'Suburban Home'

  December 27, 2012 – The boys of FIDLAR have no problem taking the piss out of their elders (see the Creedence-hijacking "live" video for "Gimme Something") or even their contemporaries (watch the hipster-slamming "Cheap Beer" clip) but they pay pitch-perfect tribute to their SoCal punk forbears via a new cover of the Descendents' "Suburban Home."The rolling thrasher comes courtesy of Filter Magazine, who've curated a MOJO-style remakes set called Milo …
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  See FIDLAR Make Creedence Clearwater Revival Play 'Gimme Something'

  December 11, 2012 – SPIN's new Breaking Out stars FIDLAR have a thing for "digital graffiti" — which is to say, reappropriating whatever footage they find online as the often hilarious backdrop to their endless spate of pepped-up, thoroughly debauched anthems. …
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  FIDLAR: Risk-Taking, SoCal Pop-Punks Unleash True Sounds of Liberty

  December 5, 2012 – WHO: Four hard-partying, hook-hawking punk primitivists from Los Angeles whose name is the skate-speak equivalent of "YOLO." FIDLAR stands for "Fuck it, dog, life's a risk"—a handy dare if your bud is feeling squeamish about popping that ollie off the neighbor's roof or, as singer Zac Carper explains, "If you're drinking at a party and you're like, ‘Should I have this 12th beer?' FIDLAR, dude. …
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  Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012's 20 Best Sets

  November 5, 2012 – This past weekend, Austin's seventh annual Fun Fun Fun Fest saw the once-modest, mid-autumn gathering finally metamorphose from off-season distraction to a festival-season staple capable of attracting more than just Ryan Gosling and a few local punks (and thanks to the Austin Music Office, SPIN was hanging in a sweet ATX Airstream). …
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  FIDLAR Target Craft Brew-Swilling Hipsters in 'Cheap Beer' Video

  November 2, 2012 – Los Angeles punks FIDLAR take heavy, hilarious swings at hipster culture in their new video for "Cheap Beer." In this Ryan Baxley-directed clip, a tattooed Harley-riding badass embarks on a solemn mission to smack the pricey craft brews out of the young hands that hold them. He visits a content yipster couple toasting a Yeti stout poured into wine glasses. He drops in on a Stella-clinking cool kids party. …
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