{"id":7957,"date":"2026-07-16T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:43:16","slug":"finn-wolfhard-talks-replacements-biopic-fire-from-the-hip-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7957","title":{"rendered":"Finn Wolfhard Talks Replacements Biopic, &#8216;Fire From the Hip&#8217; Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn New Year\u2019s Day, millions worldwide tuned in to watch, through many a tear-filled eye, Mike Wheeler of Hawkins, Indiana, put his <em>D&amp;D<\/em> book on the shelf, and bring to a close one of the greatest cross-generational pop culture phenomena of this century, <em>Stranger Things.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-related-artists \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-1 lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-align-items-center lrv-u-margin-l-00@desktop-xl a-glue@desktop-xl lrv-a-glue--t-0 lrv-a-glue--l-0 u-margin-t-29px@desktop u-margin-t-250@mobile-max u-margin-lr-auto@desktop-xl-max u-max-width-400@desktop-xl-max u-width-100p@mobile-max u-max-width-80@desktop-xl\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-white a-font-primary-fancy-m lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-text-align-center a-article-related-module-title lrv-u-padding-tb-050\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div class=\"a-article-related-module-wrap lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl lrv-u-flex-grow-1 u-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl-max u-align-items-center lrv-u-position-relative u-flex-basis-100p lrv-u-padding-b-075\">\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-80 u-width-160@mobile-max lrv-a-glue-parent lrv-u-flex-shrink-0\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/finn-wolfhard\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-crop-1x1 lrv-u-height-100p\" style=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"o-indicator lrv-a-glue a-glue--b-n050 lrv-a-glue--r-0 a-glue--t-auto a-glue--l-0 lrv-u-margin-lr-auto u-pointer-events-none lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-border-radius-50p u-width-20 u-height-20 a-icon-related-artist lrv-a-icon-after\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor Finn Wolfhard \u2014 who for all his adolescence and young adulthood embodied that often unsung, increasingly gangly, Paladin-styled hero in the wildly popular series \u2014 it was time. It also meant more time to devote to music, Wolfhard\u2019s concurrent passion, along with acting, writing and directing. That career has already had several manifestations: the Vancouver-based alt band Calpurnia; its offshoot project with Malcolm Craig, The Aubreys; and a solo chapter that launched last year with <em>Happy Birthday,<\/em> the most affecting distillation yet of a charming, lo-fi garage and punk sound that has come to be Wolfhard\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNow he\u2019s back with the new <em>Fire From The Hip,<\/em> a second solo LP that finds Finn making his biggest sonic leap yet: brighter, more expansively produced and leaning into classic rock and country flavors like never before. Packed with immediate melodies and explosive hooks, it\u2019s a crowd-pleaser, swinging for new, potentially more mainstream fences, and hopefully bringing in new devotees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAs a 23-year-old, I\u2019m not gonna sit here and say that I have figured anything out, in any way,\u201d Wolfhard tells <em>Billboard<\/em> over Zoom, a few days before <em>Fire From The Hip<\/em>\u2019s release and in the run-up to the July 17 launch of his Common Side Effects tour. \u201cBut as far as recording music, you do learn something every time you play, and you learn from other people, and you get different perspectives. Your early twenties, I feel, are for figuring out who you are, what kind of artist you want to be seen as, and how you want to express yourself. So I feel like this record is a good representation of all the influences and knowledge I\u2019ve picked up over the last eight years of recording. I would say it\u2019s definitely a natural evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt also marked a new approach to recording, on a couple of fronts. While <em>Happy Birthday<\/em> was very much a collaborative \u201cbaby\u201d between Wolfhard and Kai Slater, of Chicago\u2019s Lifeguard, <em>Fire From The Hip <\/em>was produced by Wolfhard himself, with a team of other Chicagoans: engineer Andrew Humphrey and Rand Kelley, Ramsey Bell, Josh Resing and Garrett Spoelhof of The Slaps, who since last summer have doubled as Wolfhard\u2019s live band. The dynamic they developed on the road in 2025, playing <em>Happy Birthday<\/em> as well as some of the songs from <em>Fire From The Hip<\/em> (which Wolfhard had written more than a year earlier), grew into an organic collaboration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt came together in a fun, seamless and fast way,\u201d Finn explains. \u201cWe had such an amazing time touring, and really a good thing going where we were in soundcheck running these new songs, trying them out. \u2018Cause those guys had such great ideas about different parts and different arrangements. So I just said, \u2018Let\u2019s just take whatever we have going here, this energy that we have, a put it into another record.\u2019\u201d It was also The Slaps who persuaded Wolfhard, despite his initial reluctance, to take the production reins himself. \u201cI had experience doing the Aubreys\u2019 stuff \u2013 my last band \u2013 producing by myself, and going, \u2018OK, I feel like I learned a lot.\u2019 And some of the songs even on <em>Happy Birthday<\/em> I just did by myself, also in my room. But for this I was talking about, \u2018Oh, I think maybe I should get a co-producer or something,\u2019 and the guys were like, \u2018Dude, just do it. You should just do it! You know what you want. And you wanted to produce the last one by yourself, you should just do it by yourself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile the Vancouver native still calls BC home, Chicago has most definitely become a close second. It was his Stranger<em> Things <\/em>castmate \u2013 and musical star in his own right, via his project Djo \u2013 Joe Keery that first connected Finn to the Windy City. \u201cJoe went to school in Chicago, and on set, he was kind of like the cool older brother,\u201d Wolfhard recalls. \u201cI was playing music, and was like, \u2018Oh, I want to write songs and stuff,\u2019 and he was like, \u2018You should listen to this band Twin Peaks, we\u2019ve played a bunch of shows with them.\u2019 Cadien Lake James of that Chicago indie stalwart soon became a friend and mentor to Wolfhard, connecting him with many of the city\u2019s musical creatives. \u201cBeing young, and going to Chicago and seeing how thriving and exciting the music scene is was so eye-opening,\u201d he says. \u201cI went as much as I could, and I made a lot of great friends over there. I\u2019ve been pretty lucky about how \u2018open arms\u2019 it is \u2013 and just the Midwest scene generally. I feel like Canadians and the Midwest have a similar sensibility, or warmth to them. That I relate to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFinn needed all the warmth he could get when he, along with the band and Humphrey, decamped to Minnesota\u2019s famed Pachyderm Studios for two weeks in February to record Fire<em> From The Hip<\/em>, but from those frozen environs came a remarkably sunny, summer-ready record. While the LP\u2019s sunshine occasionally belies more jaundiced lyrics \u2013 see the recent, introspective single \u201cTunnels\u201d and closer \u201cThe Climb (Not That One) \u2013 an unabashedly upbeat standout is \u201cNice To Meet You Again.\u201d All infectious power pop jangle, it\u2019s as immediate as the album gets, and channels the joy of reconnecting with someone after time apart \u2013 something Wolfhard, whose past decade has often been nomadic, knows a little about. \u201cThe nature of my life is getting to know someone, even someone that you might have romantic feelings toward \u2013 but then the nature of my job is leaving,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd then, coming back and this idea of every time you see someone, you\u2019re reintroducing yourself. And now, as I come home more often, or get into a community more and start to make friends, there\u2019s a longing to maybe be on the road less. Or just sitting still, and trying to get to know someone, as opposed to keep having to reintroduce myself to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe track is one of several on the record to feature honky-tonk piano and mandolin; steel guitar even appears on other songs \u2013 sonic elements that signal a departure from the lo-fi indie box some might have been inclined to put Wolfhard in from earlier records. If Fire<em> From The Hip <\/em>isn\u2019t country, then \u201ccountry-adjacent\u201d is fair. \u201cTotally,\u201d he concedes. \u201dI think, to me this record is \u2018country\u2019 in the same way that how rock bands can be influenced by country but they\u2019re not 100% country. A big influence on this record was the first two Wilco records, <em>A.M. <\/em>and Being<em> There.<\/em> Or, obviously the Stones, you know, hugely country-inspired, and have a lot of country songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn fact, The Rolling Stones\u2019 classics <em>Exile on Main St.<\/em> and <em>Beggars Banquet <\/em>were specifically cited as influential in the April press release announcing Fire<em> From The Hip<\/em>, and \u201cTumbling Dice\u201d would not sound out of place next to much of the album. Finn is a student of rock history who\u2019s covered Pixies, Weezer, the Velvet Underground and Mac DeMarco live, appeared with Calpurnia in the video to Weezer\u2019s cover of a-ha\u2019s \u201cTake On Me,\u201d and last year directed an inspired stop-motion video for the George Harrison essential \u201cGive Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth).\u201d But there is no classic artist more consistently occupying Finn\u2019s current mental bandwidth than alt-rock OGs The Replacements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA superfan who\u2019s shouted out the band on numerous occasions, wore a vintage Mats t-shirt when he hosted <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> earlier this year \u2013 a sly nod to the band having been banned by the show following a messy performance 40 years earlier \u2013 Wolfhard scored a coup last year in landing the film rights to <em>Trouble Boys<\/em>, author Bob Mehr\u2019s deeply sourced, moving, warts-and-all 2016 biography of the band. Finn and his father Eric have been working on the screenplay since. \u201cWe actually have a call about it later,\u201d he shares. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to find a director for it. But yeah, it\u2019s going great. I just want to make something that is authentic to them, as people.\u201d Well aware of the low tolerance for bullsh-t that the Mats and their exacting fans have, when Wolfhard took to Instagram to make official his association with the project, he quoted the droll Paul Westerberg in proclaiming, \u201cLet\u2019s let \u2019em down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThey are sort of the antithesis of a band that would have a biopic, in a lot of ways,\u201d he offers. \u201cAnd so, trying to tell a story that is authentic to them and also will maybe introduce their music to some people that wouldn\u2019t necessarily know as much Replacements material, I think to me is the goal. And also to make something is true, and not too much of a clich\u00e9 biopic. So the way me and my dad are approaching this movie is, \u2018Well, what would this movie be like if it was a fictional band?\u2019 You know, treating the characters as characters, and not being like, \u2018and this is the scene where they have a triumphant\u2026this thing\u2019 but just making it about these characters, and very contained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere\u2019s a certain irony in Wolfhard , who\u2019s identified in the past as \u201cpretty straight-edge,\u201d shepherding a film about a band that, let\u2019s say, wasn\u2019t. But the Mats\u2019 famously headstrong, often chaotic and self-sabotaging ways are part of the appeal for Finn. \u201cI am lucky in that I didn\u2019t have, or don\u2019t have, an addictive personality,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd also I was terrified, because I was so cognizant of how child actors can end up being, or people that have pressure at a young age, what happens to them if they do start drinking. But I think maybe what I relate to about the Mats is that they were so unafraid to be themselves. And I think they are the most authentic band that ever lived \u2013 to the point of their own detriment. I think I relate to the self-destructive nature of people because I think that this idea of failing, and failure, and all the pressure to be a certain way, or do a certain thing, and then going, \u2018Well f \u2014 k all that, I\u2019m gonna do what I\u2019m gonna do. And if I\u2019m gonna fail, I\u2019m gonna do it myself. I\u2019m gonna be the one that controls it\u2019 \u2013 to me is a very liberating thing. And in the end, kind of a tragedy, but also, there\u2019s something about it that is I would say the most relatable human thing. And to me, it\u2019s why they are the best rock band of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finn Wolfhard - I&amp;apos;ll Let You Finish (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVv3x4wkqjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBack on <em>Fire From The Hip,<\/em> it\u2019s musical icons of more recent times that are referenced \u2013 and quoted verbatim \u2013 at the tail end of \u201cI\u2019ll Let You Finish.\u201d Wolfhard wrote the song from the point of view of an older man who underwrites a younger girlfriend\u2019s partying life, is willing to wait around for her and tries to ingratiate himself into her world. As a coup de gr\u00e2ce he concludes by singing the actual words spoken by Taylor Swift and Kanye Swift, when the latter bum rushed the stage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Finn was not yet seven years old when the viral moment happened, but says he remembers it. \u201cOh I remember it!\u201d he insists. \u201cI remember it because I have an older brother who, we were watching it together, and my brother \u2013 he was probably 12 or 13, so he was definitely the perfect age. I mean I definitely wasn\u2019t old enough to really process what was going on. But I remember watching it in my family friends\u2019 basement with my brother. And just the fact that it happened and then became ingrained into culture. What I find interesting, and maybe why I am a little obsessed with referencing pop culture in lyrics, is there is something funny to me about things happening and then everyone going, \u2018Alright, well, you know, that\u2019s just there\u2019 and it becomes normal. Like, \u2018we\u2019re never gonna talk about that again\u2019 kind of thing. And just this idea of \u2013 I mean I think it\u2019s still safe to say that that\u2019s an insane thing that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe album serves up twang aplenty on \u201cMaggie\u201d and \u201cLights Go Down\u201d; \u201cCrater\u201d matches more urgent power pop with Dada lyrics about a guy being swallowed by a sinkhole and a woman swallowing a fork; and \u201cTunnels\u201d sparkles with New Order touches. There\u2019s also an irresistible post-punk outlier \u201cFollow,\u201d with a chimey guitar that recalls early DIIV and all the moody propulsion you could want from The Strokes or Interpol. It\u2019s one of the oldest on the album, co-written by Wolfhard and Twin Peaks\u2019 Clay Frankel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finn Wolfhard - Follow (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4jdJTKvdtAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe first demo is like 2019 or something,\u201d he recalls. \u201dWe\u2019ve had it for a long time. Both of us together, we were just like, \u2018Why don\u2019t we just do that song?&#8217;\u201d The lyrics juxtapose a lonely verse with an explosive, smitten chorus that declares, in slightly obsessive language, \u201cNo matter where you are I\u2019ll follow.\u201d \u201cTo me, it\u2019s the duality of these two things,\u201d Finn says. \u201cThe verses being more about too afraid to go out, too afraid to maybe follow this person who you really have feelings for, but then just feeling sorry for yourself, and like \u2018I\u2019m not gonna go out.\u2019 But then also this idea of the explosive nature of how things can change so fast. How one night you can be feeling really down about things, and then something happens, and you end up feeling like you could follow this person to the ends of the earth. It\u2019s this idea between second-guessing yourself about feelings you have, and lust versus actual love, and trying to find something pure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere is a purity of purpose to so much of what Wolfhard takes on creatively. <em>Happy Birthday <\/em>dropped last summer, when the final season of Stranger<em> Things <\/em>and all the hoopla and emotion surrounding it was still to come. When the series did end, it did so gracefully \u2013 there were opinions, of course, but its conclusion compares favorably, in hindsight, to the divisiveness of finales like <em>Euphoria<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to end a show,\u201d Wolfhard admits. \u201cBut I think we landed the plane, in the end.\u201d And with the plane fully landed, more than ever, he can plot his own course. For this year, anyway, that means making <em>Fire From The Hip<\/em>, its upcoming sold-out North American tour and music in general the priority. \u201cSpecifically for this year, I have had to either turn stuff down or at least put stuff on hold because I am putting music first,\u201d he says, adding that when he does act, he doesn\u2019t have any interest in equaling, \u201ctopping\u201d or replicating what he has done in the past, be it <em>Stranger Things<\/em> or the other \u201880s-set role that put him on the map, Richie Tozier in 2017\u2019s <em>It<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve kind of been playing the same character for 10 years. If I am gonna act, I want to do something that is really super different,\u201d Wolfhard says. While he does plan to do one movie this year \u2013 a project he and a friend have been developing \u201cfor a long time\u201d and which they hope to have out next year \u2013 he\u2019s concluded that bigger isn\u2019t always better. \u201cThe idea is music, right now, is really the thing that I\u2019m pursuing. And if I\u2019m gonna act, then I really want it to be the right thing, and something that I really connect with personally. I am lucky that now I\u2019ve got a group of friends that now I\u2019m writing and making stuff with,\u201d he says. \u201cIf it\u2019s an awesome director, I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a tiny f\u2013king part, I just want to work with really cool people. I\u2019m not really concerned with doing the \u2018biggest\u2019 thing or whatever. I\u2019m really lucky that I had those experiences, and that I was a part of these huge franchises. 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