Results for Nada Surf

  • Portishead

    by Lavinia Jones WrightApril 30, 2008Comments (1)

    "tin cups tapped on the bars of desolate jail cells" (read more)

  • Christopher Denny: Chicken-fried Southern Gothic

    by Lavinia Jones WrightApril 9, 2008Comments (0)

    With lyrics that evoke Gypsy girls and dark-wood cabinet radios laid over old-timey three-chord blues progressions, Denny’s music is antique in all ways but one: His voice. Denny spins his melodic yarns with an otherworldly high, tremulous trill that is timeless in a way that implies the future, where his traditionally timeless instrumentations invoke the past. (read more)

  • For Unlawful Cuomo Knowledge: Van Halen vs. Weezer

    by James Greene, Jr.March 5, 2008Comments (11)

    I think the biggest mistake my generation ever made, aside from casting aside funnyman Norm MacDonald once he was fired from Saturday Night Live, was believing from day one that Weezer was just kidding around about all those ’70s hard rock references. (read more)

  • Nada Surf

    by Lavinia Jones WrightFebruary 6, 2008Comments (1)

    "achieves the freedom from flash stardom" (read more)