The best albums of 2020 include (clockwise from top left): Fiona Apple, Doves, Run The Jewels, Thurston Moore, Fantastic Negrito, Jónsi, Code Orange, Hayley Williams and Tame Impala. And so, we’ve arrived at the end of this countdown of the best 75 albums of 2020. If you haven’t yet,…

New York City’s Nada Surf burst onto the scene in 1996 with “Popular,” a deeply ironic and subversive hit critiquing the trivialities of high school popularity. The song became an unlikely summer anthem, attacking the very aspects of Americana normally celebrated by our culture. The song snidely dismissed elevated…

Nada Surf, courtesy. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO — In the world of pop music, you’re either “popular” or you’re forgotten. Nada Surf knows how it is. The New York indie band — singer-guitarist Matthew Caws, drummer Ira Elliot and bassist Daniel Lorca —…