Photos by Erik HessNada SurfFirst Avenue, MinneapolisSaturday, March 31, 2012If you haven't heard much about Nada Surf since their breakout 1996 ode to teen angst "Popular" you're probably not alone.
Releases from Bombay Bicycle Club, Tanlines, Geographer, Fanfarlo, and six other albums make our Top Ten Best Albums of the First Quarter in 2012.
A big focus of Weekend Checklist is local music, because there is so much good local artists in the Cities, but we often forget that Minneapolis and St. Paul is not always a flyover area for national
Por Federino Arballo “Todo lo que siento es transición. Ahora a estar solo, con el ojo despejado, con una mente nublada.” Así empieza el primer estribillo del disco. Si no podés relacionarte con esa frase, nunca fuiste adolescente. De eso se trata conceptualmente al álbum: amores perdidos, amores encontrados, anécdotas de juventud y la melancolía de una época, que vista por una banda de adolescentes de más de 40, permite agregar ironía y cinismo a esos años . [...]
Nada Surf will hit the First Avenue Mainroom this Saturday in support of their sixth and latest release, The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (out now via Barsuk Records ). Australian indie-rock duo An Horse will kick off the night in style, and MFR is amped to give away a pair of tickets for your show-going pleasure! To enter email laura@minneapolisfuckingrocks. com with your answer to the following question: If you had to wear one color for the rest of your life what would you choose? [...]
Barsuk Records has just announced the release of Nada Surf’s The Dulcitone Files EP, a set of acoustic versions of tracks from their recently released seventh album The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy. The EP, now available for purchase through digital retailers across the US, is being highlighted on Billboard.com with ...
Frank Yang Back to back festivals! What a great idea. Just prior to heading out to engage with Canadian Musicfest's 2012 edition, I took a look back at years past and noticed a couple trends - one, that I usually complain about the lineup ( check! ) and that as a result of not wanting to see the same old same old, I try to branch out and see new and unknown acts, usually from foreign climes, with little background and no guarantee of [...]
The first band I saw this year, marching along at 6th and San Jacinto at midnight SXSW is the world's best music festival if only for the sheer volume of superb choice. On any given day/night/early morning, I was staring at a ridiculously, totally stupidly embarrassing list of terrific musical choices. I was very cognizant that this spring break for grownups is one of the richest weeks of the year for me. I survived this, my "senior" (fourth) year, and came back bone-crushingly exhausted but smiling widely (and bruised without remembering precisely how I [...]
Happy Spring, beautiful freeloaders! We know it's been a while, so to make up for the two-week recess we're jam-packing your Friday with some pretty sweet music from a collection of our friends. Setting things off, we suggest you check out free tracks like MESHUGGAH's "I Am Colossus," Heavy Blanket's ...
The Fonda Theatre in LA has re-opened and thank God since indie long-timer, Nada Surf, was in our hood.
If you happened to miss Nada Surf 's Bowery Ballroom show back in January, have no fear. Unlike most of the internet, which has the attention span of a child whose parent is panicking over an imminent Ritalin shortage , we here at HAD believe good music is still good music, even if it's been around more than a month. As such, we've embedded a lovely YouTube archive of the show above, which you can watch in its entirety and enjoy a seriously killer set from this seriously awesome band, who seem to grow more [...]
Check out my photos of Nada Surf at the Fonda Theater over at Stereogum .
Check out my photos of Nada Surf at the Fonda Theater over at Stereogum .
Minus a few exceptions, I tend to be a pessimist when it comes to acoustic renditions. Unfortunately, Nada Surf's new acoustic EP doesn't fall into my exceptions list. Although, I can definitely appreciate these stripped down melodies from their 2012 album, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy . The Dulcitone Files obviously takes a subtler approach to these five songs, but don't really sound any better than the original versions. For example, take a Foo Fighters song like "Everlong," which has a hard crunching chorus and nice gooey verses in between. Mellow it down to just Dave [...]
Yeserday Nada Surf released the digital The Dulcitone Files EP in advance of their just starting nationwide tour. Above you can listen to the acoustic single from that EP “Looking Through." Following a quickly sold out small show at the Tractor back in February surrounding the release of their new LP the stars are indifferent [...]
Nada Surf kicked off the tour behind their latest album The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles last night. As a companion to the album, they also released The Dulcitone Files EP which offers stripped down acoustic performances of tracks from the new album. Last night they worked through a twenty song setlist augmented by Martin Wenk from Calexico on keyboards and Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices on guitar. Australian duo An Horse lamented about the cold weather but warmed up the audience with their tunes. Check out the [...]
In case you need another reason to head to Aquarius Records , Nada Surf will be performing a free live acoustic show at the store tonight at 6pm (before playing at The Fillmore later tonight). Nada Surf - "When I Was Young" Below, you can read Aquarius' glowing review of the band's latest album, The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy . We might as well just start out with the [...]
Tuesday things: ► Sharon Van Etten and the War on Drugs visit the Avalon Hollywood in a double bill of two artists with gorgeous (and critically praised) albums. Van Etten's third album "Tramp" came out earlier this year to almost universal acclaim; the War on Drugs is still riding a wave of attention for August's "Slave Ambient." ► Of Montreal is coming off exhilarating shows at SXSW where the band performed its 2005 album "The Sunlandic Twins," but tonight at the Wiltern, where they are appearing with Deerhoof [...]
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