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New Zealand Band’s First Ever North American Tour
Mar 10, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Surf City is heading stateside for their first ever run of North American dates. We have the dates. More
Oct 15, 2010
By Laura Studarus
New Zealand’s Surf City has signed to Fire Records and is ready for action with upcoming album, Kudos (due out November). They've already unleashed the title track, a spunky guitar track with beach-ready vocals. More
Interviews
Jul 30, 2009
By John Everhart
Sure, it’s easy to pin down the provenance of Auckland, New Zealand act Surf City’s self-titled debut EP. There are delectable dashes of Pavement-style melodies, nods to the roughshod pop of the ’80s Flying Nun roster, and elements of the stomping tribal rhythms of Animal Collective. The band’s frontman Davin Stoddard admits this, but he’s unapologetic. “Those are all bands we’re into, a common thread among us all. A song like ‘Dickshakers Union,’ we got the idea from Animal Collective, and thought it was a great song. Some people said, ‘fuck, this sounds just like Animal Collective,’ and others said, ‘we dig it, it’s a great pop song.’” More
