Surf City
Kudos

Self-branded as "shoewave", Surf City are either poking fun at writers' mindless haste to pigeon-hole and box music or the world of genre has clearly ...

Surf City's self-titled debut EP arrived in 2008, but you could be forgiven for thinking that the band had actually time-warped in from the early 1990...

Buy at iTunesIt's been 20 years since My Bloody Valentine released Loveless. It's been 26 since The Jesus and Mary Chain dropped Psychocandy. And even...

On their Facebook page, Surf City has listed “shoewave” as their genre. While they are clearly poking fun at the absurdity of genre names like “shoeg...

On 1963’s “Surf City”, Jan and Dean may have thought they were the pinnacle of chilled out cool. But in 1988, “Two girls for every boy” was exactly wh...

From theperspective of we Yanks over here it would appears that after a serious burst ocreativity in the 80's and early 90's that new Zealand has been...

In the opening minutes of Kudos, Surf City make a fine first impression. They?ve got a Steve Keene painting on the cover, guitars rendered larger-than...

This New Zealand band finally follows up their promising 2007 EP with their debut full-length, and it’s a scorcher straight from the noisier side of c...

Maybe because of Surf City's far-out location, or because they're so laid back, it's taken a while for this four-piece from Auckland, New Zealand to g...

The Jesus and Mary Chain-derived band name is an indication of the sound of Kudos, which features booming indie drones drenched in effects; but it's t...