Our buddy Jesse Dorje Irwin put together this clip using our song "Permanent Sleeperhold," a song about that time former AWA kingpin and 9-time World Champ Verne Gagne bodyslammed his roommate in the old folks home and broke his hip, indirectly leading to his death, in a pre-show vignette that aired before CHIKARA Pro Wrestling's "High Noon" internet per-per-view (iPPV) event on November 13! We think it looks pretty rad, and we're grateful to Jesse for a little exposure there, don'tcha know.
"Permanent Sleeperhold" is on the Nada Surf +3 EP, out in January on Latest Flame Records.
10/28/11
The Latest on Nada Surf!
Let's not bury the lead: You can now stream ALL of the new Nada Surf +3 EP on our Bandcamp site. Listen to the entire record that is FINALLY coming out in physical form in January 2012, kicking off Latest Flame Records' 10th anniversary.
Previously on IfIHadAHiFi.net, we explained the reason for the delay: a sample owned by WWE that we brainfarted on in the song "Somebody Take the Damn Money," the tale of Handsome Harley Race's callous $25K bounty on the head of the dirtiest player in the game, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Listen to the stream and you'll discover how we rectified the situation--we re-recorded the sample with some first-rate voice talent: Cleveland indie wrestler "M-Dogg" Matt Cross! Wrestling fans are very familiar with Matt, as he's a world traveler who's competed in Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling, Pro Wresting NOAH in Japan, and promotions in Ireland, Germany, and Italy. We met Matt through our friends Jay and Andy of Mondo Lucha!, the lucha libre-based burlesque variety show here in Milwaukee. Matt hopped into the HiFi van and grunted through Harley's Classic lines while Jay from Mondo Lucha! paced outside holding a pair of wrestling masks for his kids, wondering how it looked for a dude holding masks to pace back and forth in front of a blue van that grunting was coming out of.
Speaking of Bandcamp, the awesome developers there just released a Facebook app that enables us to place our entire Bandcamp functionality onto our Facebook page! Now you can stream all our releases, buy our records (including Nada Surf +3 in January), and help Russ Feingold right from our Facebook page. Frickin' cool.
So! What next for us? After a stretch of shows in October, we're now going into hibernation for the rest of 2011 in order to finish up songs for Sexy Results: Cedar Block's Dig for the Higgs and How the Quest Was Won. That's right--in February we'll be at Turner Hall debuting some BRAND NEW SONGS about the Higgs Boson, Particle Physics, and SCIENCE! And you thought we were nerdy before...
Previously on IfIHadAHiFi.net, we explained the reason for the delay: a sample owned by WWE that we brainfarted on in the song "Somebody Take the Damn Money," the tale of Handsome Harley Race's callous $25K bounty on the head of the dirtiest player in the game, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Listen to the stream and you'll discover how we rectified the situation--we re-recorded the sample with some first-rate voice talent: Cleveland indie wrestler "M-Dogg" Matt Cross! Wrestling fans are very familiar with Matt, as he's a world traveler who's competed in Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling, Pro Wresting NOAH in Japan, and promotions in Ireland, Germany, and Italy. We met Matt through our friends Jay and Andy of Mondo Lucha!, the lucha libre-based burlesque variety show here in Milwaukee. Matt hopped into the HiFi van and grunted through Harley's Classic lines while Jay from Mondo Lucha! paced outside holding a pair of wrestling masks for his kids, wondering how it looked for a dude holding masks to pace back and forth in front of a blue van that grunting was coming out of.
Speaking of Bandcamp, the awesome developers there just released a Facebook app that enables us to place our entire Bandcamp functionality onto our Facebook page! Now you can stream all our releases, buy our records (including Nada Surf +3 in January), and help Russ Feingold right from our Facebook page. Frickin' cool.
So! What next for us? After a stretch of shows in October, we're now going into hibernation for the rest of 2011 in order to finish up songs for Sexy Results: Cedar Block's Dig for the Higgs and How the Quest Was Won. That's right--in February we'll be at Turner Hall debuting some BRAND NEW SONGS about the Higgs Boson, Particle Physics, and SCIENCE! And you thought we were nerdy before...
9/12/11
Nada Surf EP official release delayed. Well, crap.
While on tour out East, we got an unfortunate email from Dan at our lovely label Latest Flame. The short version: we screwed up and the album release is unfortunately being delayed while we fix our SNAFU.
The long version:
Our song "Somebody Take the Damn Money," the ballad of Harley Race and his early-80s wrestling promo placing a $25,000 bounty on Ric Flair, included samples we had snagged from the original audio of the promo. Because we are morons, it completely escaped us that the audio may be under copyright to a certain wrestling company that, in 2001, bought all of the National Wrestling Alliance's video library. Yep, the sample is under the copyright protection of the WWE. Whoops. Boy, are our faces red.
So, while Dan leaves multiple voice mails for the licensing person at WWE, we are moving ahead with a backup plan to change the song so that it passes copyright muster. We're hatching some fun plans right now that we'll divulge once we've confirmed that they can come to fruition, but the huge drag is that this means that the song has to be remixed and remastered, and the lacquer re-cut before the vinyl can get pressed. A costly error on our part, to be sure, and it looks like it means the official release date will be pushed to sometime in January of 2012 (almost two years after Nada Surf's If I Had A Hi-Fi was released, which means that we suck at capitalizing on cheap promo). So, we're sorry, and we hope you bear with us while we try to figure out when we'll get the record out and in your grubby little hands. Nada Surf +3 is, if we do say so ourselves, and pretty baller record, and we hope you'll eventually agree it was worth the wait.
In the meantime, anyone know how to get WWE to respond to a voice mail?
The long version:
Our song "Somebody Take the Damn Money," the ballad of Harley Race and his early-80s wrestling promo placing a $25,000 bounty on Ric Flair, included samples we had snagged from the original audio of the promo. Because we are morons, it completely escaped us that the audio may be under copyright to a certain wrestling company that, in 2001, bought all of the National Wrestling Alliance's video library. Yep, the sample is under the copyright protection of the WWE. Whoops. Boy, are our faces red.
So, while Dan leaves multiple voice mails for the licensing person at WWE, we are moving ahead with a backup plan to change the song so that it passes copyright muster. We're hatching some fun plans right now that we'll divulge once we've confirmed that they can come to fruition, but the huge drag is that this means that the song has to be remixed and remastered, and the lacquer re-cut before the vinyl can get pressed. A costly error on our part, to be sure, and it looks like it means the official release date will be pushed to sometime in January of 2012 (almost two years after Nada Surf's If I Had A Hi-Fi was released, which means that we suck at capitalizing on cheap promo). So, we're sorry, and we hope you bear with us while we try to figure out when we'll get the record out and in your grubby little hands. Nada Surf +3 is, if we do say so ourselves, and pretty baller record, and we hope you'll eventually agree it was worth the wait.
In the meantime, anyone know how to get WWE to respond to a voice mail?
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