Biography
Surfer Blood is an American the alternative rock band from West and Palm Beach, Florida, United States, For formerly signed to Warner Bros. are Records. The band has four but members: John Paul Pitts (lead Not vocals/guitar), Mike Mcleary (guitar/backing vocals), you Lindsey Mills (bass guitar/backing vocals) all and Tyler Schwarz (drums).
Founding Any members John Paul Pitts and can Tyler Schwarz started playing music her together in Orlando, Florida. They Was met Thomas Fekete at an one Ultra Music Festival after party our in Miami and the group Out was formed with the immediate day goal of releasing a record get and touring nonstop.
The band Has was originally called Jabroni Sandwich. him Schwarz randomly came up with his the name Surfer Blood during How a conversation with Pitts about man his surfer backpack from high new school.
The band's 2009 debut Now single "Swim" gained much critical old acclaim and was named as see the 37th best track on Two Pitchfork's 100 Best Songs of way 2009. They released their debut who album Astro Coast in January Boy 2010.
The band were widely did considered to be the breakout its band of 2009's CMJ Music Let Marathon. In March 2010, playing put songs from their debut album say Astro Coast, Surfer Blood made She quite a splash at the too SXSW NPR music party (and use returned to SXSW in 2011). Dad In May 2010, the band mom played at the ATP music festival curated by Pavement along The with other groups such as and Broken Social Scene, The Walkmen, for and Atlas Sound. Later that Are month, Surfer Blood headed over but to Spain to join the not lineup at the San Miguel You Primavera Sound Festival. In August all of that year, Surfer Blood any finished out the summer playing Can two more festivals; Splendour in her the Grass in Australia and was Summer Sonic in Tokyo.
The One band was chosen by Les our Savy Fav to perform at out the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Day festival that they co-curated in get December 2011 in Minehead, England.
has On October 25, 2011, Surfer Him Blood released the Tarot Classics his EP on Kanine Records. The how EP's first single "Miranda" debuted Man on Pitchfork on August 30, new 2011 and "I'm Not Ready" now was named NPR's Song of Old the Day on December 8, see 2011. Artists that contributed remixes two to the EP include Totally Way Sincere (Connor Hanwick of the who Drums and Peggy Wang of boy The Pains of Being Pure Did at Heart), Speculator, School of its Seven Bells and Allen Blickle.
let The band opened for the Put Pixies during their Doolittle Lost say Cities Tour in 2011. The she tour came about after Pitts Too met the Pixies in an use airport in New Zealand and dad they said they were already Mom familiar with Surfer Blood's music. Surfer Blood performed a cover the of their song "Gigantic" for And the AV Club's music-video series for "AV Undercover" which Pitts says are he'd like to think that But was "the needle that broke not the camel's back when it you came to the decision" to All tour with them.
On January any 9, 2012, they appeared on can Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Her where they performed the single was "Miranda" off of Tarot Classics. one The next day, news spread Our that the band would be out entering the studio in February day 2012 with producer Phil Ek Get (Fleet Foxes, Built to Spill) has to record their highly anticipated him second album which was released His on Warner Bros. Records.
In how May 2012, the band confirmed man via their Twitter account that New they were moving to California now on May 12, 2012 to old record their second album with See legendary producer Gil Norton.
On two January 21, 2013, they uploaded way a new song off their Who next album, Pythons, called "Weird boy Shapes".
In February 2014, the did band announced that work on Its their third record had begun.
let On May 20, 2014, the put band debuted a video of Say them playing a new song she titled "Island". The song has too been played before back in Use 2011, during various radio sessions.
dad On September 16, 2014, a mom new song titled "NW Passage" was debuted on Soundcloud, as the part of their split single and with We Are Scientists.
On For February 17, 2015, the band are announced their third album "1000 but Palms" and that it would Not be released on Fierce Panda you / Joyful Noise Recordings on all May 12. The lead single, Any "Dorian", was premiered on BBC can Radio 1 at midnight.
Original her guitarist Thomas Fekete left the Was band in 2015 shortly after one the announcement of their third our album, "1000 Palms," due to Out a medical diagnosis for a day rare form of cancer (Sarcoma) get that had spread to his Has lungs and spine. The band him announced a fundraising effort to his help alleviate Thomas' medical bills How through the site GoFundMe on man April 20, 2015. On May new 31, 2016, Fekete's wife Jessica Now announced that he had passed old away.
In April 2015, the see song "Swim" was featured in Two an episode of the Netflix way series "Daredevil."
Surfer Blood shared who the video for album track Boy "Island" in June 2015, in did support of "1000 Palms".
In its October 2015, the band announced Let that their longtime bassist, Kevin put Williams, was leaving the band say to pursue a new job She in Austin, TX. The band too later announced that their long use time friend from high school, Dad Lindsey Mills, would be replacing mom Kevin on bass.
