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17 Musicians Share Their Favorite Cocktails

Whether it's as classic as a Whiskey Ginger or as off-the-wall as something called Penicillin, musicians discuss their love for cocktails and share their favorite recipes.  read more

Sasquatch Launch Party Photos - Seattle, Wash.

Check out Chona Kasinger's photos from Sasquatch Launch Party! in Seattle, Wash. below.  read more

Album Stream: Nada Surf - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy

Maybe not all the tracks aren’t as hard hitting or heavy as the commanding album opener, but the idea’s the same: grab the audience with Matthew Caws’ great melodies and producer Chris Shaw’s clean production, but hold their interest with huge guitars and an air-tight rhythm section made up of bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot.   read more

Nada Surf: The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy

Nada Surf have managed to squeeze in several lives over the course of almost two decades together. They’ve been called one-hit wonders, sophomore slumpers, dead-and-goners, and have emerged relatively unscathed to find themselves in the year 2012.  read more

Nada Surf Expands U.S. Tour

As Brooklyn Vegan reports, Nada Surf has announced a full U.S. tour behind their upcoming album, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy. The show kicks off at a sold-out album release show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York in January and finds its way to Washington, D.C. in April.   read more

Nada Surf Announces New Album, Tour

As Consequence Of Sound points out, New York alt rockers Nada Surf are set to release a new album on Jan. 24 of next year.  read more

14 Awesome Modern Power Trios

Massive ensembles like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene create wonderfully lush, orchestral music that could only be pulled off in a large group—but there's a time and place for everything, and sometimes that tight-knit, bare-necessities combination of guitar-bass-drums beckons forth.  read more

20 Bands with Nautical Names

It’s hard to beat an afternoon spent building sandcastles and splashing in the surf—unless a jellyfish is involved. So it’s easy to see why so many bands have borrowed their names from all things coastal....  read more

The 20 Best Cover Songs of 2010

The artists who made our list transformed the songs they chose, playing to their own strengths while keeping the core elements that made the song great in the first place.  read more

Nada Surf: If I Had a Hi-Fi

Forever a tribute band On their sixth album, Nada Surf repurposes a dozen songs from inside and outside pop music’s canon. Covers, of course, are always fraught with peril, and at times singer/guitarist Matthew Caws’ inflection has a way of fermenting the source material’s latent cheese. On the synth-less “Enjoy the Silence,” he over-enunciates some of Depeche Mode’s most ironically banal lyrics: “Words are meaningless / And forgettable.” But on “Love and Anger,” a ballad originally energized by Kate Bush’s octave-bending trill, he belts the melody to better effect. The appropriation of other people’s words works best on “Agony...  read more