We All Want Someone To Shout For — Last night was one of my rare appearances in Brooklyn. I don’t usually venture down there, as I normally find everything that I need in Manhattan. Occasionally a good show suffices in Brooklyn, and I will decide to make the trek. The Morning Bender... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Surfer Blood @ Brooklyn Bowl in 2009 (more by Vincent Cornelli) tonight in NYC * Jerry Lee Lewis @ BB King's * FIXED w/ Beni @ Public Assembly * Glenn Branca @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * The Sway Machinery, Djarara... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 03-13 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo *03-14 New Orleans, LA - Saturn Bar03-15 San Antonio, TX - El Ten Eleven03-16 Austin, TX - Mohawk 03-17 Austin, TX, SXSW - Official Girls Rock Camp - BMI show 03-18 Austin, TX, SXSW (day party) - Find N Grind Ska... more info

Rolling Stone — Who: Surfer Blood, a pack of indie rockers from West Palm Beach, Florida, who in the span of less than a year have traded in their day jobs as waiters for a spot on the bill of the massive Primavera Sound festival alongside artists that inspired them... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Music – Hollywood 1. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM 2. Beach House – Teen Dream 3. Spoon – Transference 4. XX – Self-Titled 5. Vampire Weekend – Contra 6. Soft Pack – Self-Titled 7. Dave Rawlings Machine – Friend of a Friend 8. Sur... more info

Guardian Music — Dream-pop, nature and nostalgia is in, raging against the machine is out. Just when did indie rock get so laidback?The US music blogosphere seems to have been turfed of late. The general terrain has returned to nature: gone are the tacky, post-Justic... more info

KEXP Seattle — The four members of Surfer Blood in an odd twist of fate met at an afterparty for a music festival none of them attended. Sharing distaste for drum and bass, and perhaps bonded by the irony they were attending said party, John Paul Pitts, Tyler Schwa... more info

Music For Ants — I feel sort of ashamed that it took me this long to catch on to this band, but I’m glad I finally gave in and listened to Surfer Blood’s fantastic debut album, Astro Coast. The Florida indie rockers follow the lead of recent debuts from Japandroi... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-04 Stony Brook, NY - Stony Brook University02-06 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl02-26 Hanover, NH - Dartmouth College !03-06 Hartford, CT - The Wadsworth Atheneum $^03-07 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge $03-08 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge $03-09 Phila... more info

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