Violent Soho: Finding a Way Out of This Thing

It’s been an emotional ride for Australia’s Violent Soho. The troupe—Luke Boerdam, James Tidswell, Luke Henery and Michael Richards out of Brisbane, Queensland—has gone from trying to grab the attention of America in 2010 to moving back in with mom and dad and applying to McDonald’s to recording a gold-selling album and landing as a premiere Australian pop punk band. They released their fourth album, Waco, in March, and are set to promote it in America this fall in cities like Toronto, Denver and Salt Lake City on Sept. 2. They’ll be taking another chance here since their last American endeavor six years ago, but this time, with a larger catalog, they seem more confident—they know what it’s like being in a band that’s seen the absolute worst situation and, also, the absolute best.

Fidlar: Honest, Clean, Original

If you have listened to FIDLAR’s albums, Fidlar and Too, you see what they represent: at first you’re in the heat of the party, burning in the prime of your youth. But then, before you know it, you’re nursing your hangover in rehab. For their frontman, Zac Carper, these two albums have been exactly that. Around the time of the first album’s release, Carper had been smoking crack with kids at shows and injecting heroin. Now, Carper is a year and a half sober. He’s stopped going to the after-parties, and he doesn’t even smoke weed anymore. It’s interesting to hear about his habits and how he has made such a polar shift. But what is really interesting is his honesty. Apart from the conversation he had with SLUG, Carper has opened up to blogs from Vice to Stereogum about past life and drug habits. My biggest question was, why is he so honest with the media?

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