NADA SURF ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR FOR SPRING 2012

NEW RECORD THE STARS ARE INDIFFERENT TO ASTRONOMY OUT JANUARY 24, 2012 ON BARSUK

Barsuk Records and Nada Surf are excited to announce Spring 2012 tour dates. The national tour will kick off March 20th in Los Angeles, CA and see the band roll cross-country, wrapping up in Washington, DC on April 10th. The dates in support of Nada Surf's new album - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (Barsuk) - follow select east and west coast gigs in late January, including a home town show at Bowery Ballroom on the day of album release January 24, 2012. A Pre-Sale for fans will begin Wednesday, November 9th with tickets available at www.nadasurf.musictoday.com, and regular on sale for all other dates will begin Friday, November 11th.

Nada Surf recently unveiled the track "When I was Young" as a first glimpse of the forthcoming album, which has already been heralded by NPR as "tremendous - full of big, booming rock that practically glows with generosity." Fader lauded the track itself as "delightfully earnest," while Stereogum positively described "When I Was Young" as starting out with a "delicate acoustic flutter" that "gradually builds into a more muscular crash-rock song."

Listen to "When I Was Young"

Nada Surf "When I Was Young" by Barsuk Records mp3

Download at NadaSurf.com

Stars is Nada Surf's seventh record, and fourth for Seattle indie Barsuk, following the successful and critically lauded Let Go (2003), The Weight is a Gift (2005), Lucky (2007) and their self-released covers record if i had a hifi (2010). This is their first album of new material in four years, and unlike all of the other Nada Surf records, Stars was made with a distinct attempt to capture their live sound. "We've always played faster and a little harder live," says Vocalist/Guitarist Matthew Caws, "but we'd play so carefully in the studio. So with this album, we made a conscious decision to preserve what it felt like in the practice room, when you play with that new-song energy.

Nada Surf's lineup for 15 years has been and still is Matthew Caws (vocals, guitar), Daniel Lorca (bass) and Ira Elliot (drums), though this time, as on if i had a hifi and the tour that followed, they invited guitarist Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Death of Samantha) to join in the proceedings. Chris Shaw (Wilco, Brendan Benson, Elvis Perkins in Dearland and Super Furry Animals) was brought in to produce and record.

2012 TOUR DATES:

JANUARY
24 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (Album Release Show)
28 - San Diego, CA - Bright Lights Concert Series @ 4th & B

FEBRUARY
02 - Seattle, WA - The Tractor Tavern

MARCH
20 - Los Angeles, CA - The Music Box
21 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
23 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
27 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
29 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall
30 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
31 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue

APRIL
02 - Chicago, IL - The Metro
04 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
05 - Montreal, QC - The Corona Theatre
06 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
07 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
09 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of the Living Arts
10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club