That Ohio band is pretty mediocre...

But the FIDLAR band, they are part of a 'surf punk' movement that is gaining some steam. Is it surf... is it even punk? But the fact is that they are popular, more popular than every surf band on the planet at the moment(which sucks). They use the title surf in a song, they skate a lot, they surf, and were raised in beach culture. Pretty easy for the tag to be applied for them. Surf Punk is not surf music, nor do I think the band would say that. But, this is what kids of that demographic and culture are listening to. This is defining their youth.

Lots of Pixies in FIDLAR, the Pixies being a band that had a strong 'surf' connection.

Did you correct the people in the threads?

Essentially, we are not popular enough to hold this genre amongst the entire population. I fear we are quickly losing more of a hold, how many bands tour anymore? Daikaiju? In the 90s there were a number of bands that regularly toured and released music, this left a mark. You still run into CDs, 7"s, and records of these bands. People now hitting 40 have fond memories of seeing these bands in college and instantly recognize this type of music. We have nothing like this for the current generation.

We never played enough, we couldn't commit around work, school, health. Could we have made it work, yes. But we just didn't and this is probably because we were lazy/didn't care enough/cared more about other things in life. What would have happened if we toured 10-15 weeks of the year? I bet we would have found a label and found an audience in cities as we revisited them. I bet this would happen to any band that had the drive to get out there and tour behind their music.

As much as the industry is changing, you still can't just sit at home and make a name for you, your band, or your genre. It just doesn't work that way.

FIDLAR, and these other 'surf punk' bands are working their asses off and they are going to take the term 'surf' right out of 'surf music'. Not maliciously, but public opinion will see to that.

JakeDobner wrote:

That Ohio band is pretty mediocre...

But the FIDLAR band, they are part of a 'surf punk' movement that is gaining some steam. Is it surf... is it even punk? But the fact is that they are popular, more popular than every surf band on the planet at the moment(which sucks). They use the title surf in a song, they skate a lot, they surf, and were raised in beach culture. Pretty easy for the tag to be applied for them. Surf Punk is not surf music, nor do I think the band would say that. But, this is what kids of that demographic and culture are listening to. This is defining their youth.

Lots of Pixies in FIDLAR, the Pixies being a band that had a strong 'surf' connection.

Did you correct the people in the threads?

Essentially, we are not popular enough to hold this genre amongst the entire population. I fear we are quickly losing more of a hold, how many bands tour anymore? Daikaiju? In the 90s there were a number of bands that regularly toured and released music, this left a mark. You still run into CDs, 7"s, and records of these bands. People now hitting 40 have fond memories of seeing these bands in college and instantly recognize this type of music. We have nothing like this for the current generation.

We never played enough, we couldn't commit around work, school, health. Could we have made it work, yes. But we just didn't and this is probably because we were lazy/didn't care enough/cared more about other things in life. What would have happened if we toured 10-15 weeks of the year? I bet we would have found a label and found an audience in cities as we revisited them. I bet this would happen to any band that had the drive to get out there and tour behind their music.

As much as the industry is changing, you still can't just sit at home and make a name for you, your band, or your genre. It just doesn't work that way.

FIDLAR, and these other 'surf punk' bands are working their asses off and they are going to take the term 'surf' right out of 'surf music'. Not maliciously, but public opinion will see to that.

I have seen quite a few posts about fidlar. I don't get it at all.
Here are some more gems from reddit:

Porno for Pyros is psychadelic surf rock??
https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/comments/37sm4o/porno_for_pyros_bali_eyes_psychedelicsurf_rock/

Outcast sounds "surfy"??
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/37e71n/tomtsong/

Funnily enough, I really wanted to do a surf instrumental version of Hey-Ya at one time.

Los Fantasticos

ElMonstroPorFavor wrote:

Hey Ya cover has been done! https://www.reverbnation.com/theredplanets/song/6539127-hey-ya-album-version

But more on the topic, or what I guess is the topic, I wake up every morning and look at what's tagged as surf/surf rock/surf music on bandcamp. About 70 percent of it is way way off.

Wow, that does actually translate to surf pretty well.

Oh wow!