Nude Beach

Owing as much to <a href="spotify:artist:137l8QdpxTAeZawP4qQYXK">Exploding Hearts</a> as <a href="spotify:artist:2UZMlIwnkgAEDBsw1Rejkn">Tom Petty</a>, Nude Beach serve up roadtrip-ready indie rock with punk edges and blue-collar roots. The trio of singer/guitarist Chuck Betz, drummer/singer Ryan Naideau, and bassist Jim Shelton began playing together as high-schoolers in Newport, New York, relocating to Brooklyn and becoming Nude Beach by 2008 (not to be confused with the Philadelphia-based band of the same name, which later re-emerged as <a href="spotify:artist:5jU5a88qL9FCzLNQuAh2E9">Cough Cool</a>). That year the band self-released a self-titled cassette and spent 2009 busily playing around New York with bands like <a href="spotify:artist:4duwxQPOAG5u8MXMDfAKcc">Used Kids</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3h0MN1neFknEvlYKxFmSQW">TacocaT</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6MgcDs1VzbkKtpLDT9cmCb">Tenement</a>. Nude Beach's self-titled LP arrived on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Mandible%22">Mandible</a> label in 2010 as the band embarked on its first U.S. tour. Between their in-demand live schedule in 2011, Nude Beach released a split 7" with Marvin Berry & the New Sound as well as a live cassette, and celebrated the new year with their 100th show. That spring they toured with <a href="spotify:artist:30XB6UJMhn7v7ZDX2GlIsM">the Men</a> and offered their second album, II, signing with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Other+Music+Recording+Company%22">Other Music Recording Company</a> shortly thereafter, which re-released the record that August. In 2014, Nude Beach struck a deal with the New Jersey-based punk indie label Don Giovanni Records, who released the band's double-length third album, '77, in the fall of that year. ~ Chrysta Cherrie, Rovi