Nada Surf News

Nada Surf 's new single, When I Was Young, is taken from their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy.

It's fair to say that Nada Surf's music has plateaued in the past few years. "The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy," released Jan.

Sounds Like: Cleveland's Dylan Baldi switches gears on this one, taking his punk-flavored garage rock, cranking the volume and making one of the best LPs of the winter.

We remember distinctly the edge of puberty - all awkward, disproportionate limbs, angsty scrawls in diaries emblazoned with pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tiffani Amber Thiessen , and Nada Surf 's "Popular." Somewhat of an anthem for the 90s, "Popular" is probably the first thing you'll think of when you hear the name Nada Surf, despite the ... (more)

It seems that in the last couple of years, more and more bands from the 1990s are coming back, either taking the reunion route like Pavement, Chavez, the long-inactive Superchunk, and even Soundgarden, or releasing new material long after their last memorable hit.

On my subway ride home from work the other day, a young man pointed to my headphones and asked, "What're you listening to?" This is an awkward question for music journalists.

PLAN A: The Wood Brothers, Sarah and Christian Dugas @ Belly Up. Chris Wood is best known as a founding member of jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, but for years he's also played in The Wood Brothers with his bro, Oliver.

Nada Surf is probably best known for its 1996 hit, "Popular" - a nice ode to a high schooler's dating angst.

Every day, an avalanche of new releases threatens the desks of Goings On About Town; here are a few that have caught our attention.

Nada Surf have managed to squeeze in several lives over the course of almost two decades together.

About halfway through The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy , singer Matthew Caws issues a mission statement to sum up this and all Nada Surf records: "It's never too late for teenage dreams." Those seven hopeful words perfectly summarize a long-suffering rock group's unflagging optimism and wise, wide-eyed love of life.