Matthew Caws from Nada Surf

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“The decade’s foremost purveyor of power pop.” -Los Angeles Times

The three members of Nada Surf have played together now for a dozen years. They’ve survived overnight major-label success and the inevitable morning-after bleariness, persevering past obstacles that would have sunk a less resilient combo to become one of America’s most truly
independent bands. Experience has only made their work richer, bringing gravity to the subject matter and lightness to its presentation. Keeping things honest – and often rapturous — has become a modus operandi. Lorca, who first met Caws at their mutual grammar school, explains,
“When Matthew and I decided we were going to start our own band and that we were going to sing, we set a couple of rules. One of them was that we would not sing in any affected sort of way, that we would sing the way we talked. Another is that we would write about things that
were close to us and about our lives.”

Vocalist, guitarist Matthew Caws strips down from the trio to solo mode at etown.