Nada Surf

Nada Surf enjoyed a buzz-bin moment in 1996 with the high school satire "Popular," and
while the extremely groovy guitar ripples stuck in your head long after the joke was over,
it wasn't the kind of hit that suggests a long-term career, as Harvey Danger or the Primitive
Radio Gods would be happy to explain to you. So the New York guitar-rock trio hit the
indie trail to earn its cred the hard way, and after the Weezer-like introspection... More >

Right, they do Coldplay better than they did Weezer ("Inside of Love," "Blizzard of '77").