Last year, the Brooklyn rock band Nude Beach made a sneaky-great album in II, a collection of sunny grinning-up-at-the-sky summer-rock that's stayed in my iTunes rotation way more than I ever…   Read Story »

A couple of weeks ago, Brooklyn rockers Nude Beach dropped the memorable clip for "Some Kinda Love," a clip where an invisible narrator went through some kind of nervous breakdown. But, that wasn't…   Read Story »

Nice job this week, video directors! There were definitely too many good videos this week. I don't know how I didn't manage to find room for the A Place To Bury Strangers video where toys melt and…   Read Story »

Best Videos Of The Week mainstay Tom Scharpling writes and directs the new clip for Nude Beach's hook-laden "Some Kinda Love," where a silent narrator annotates the performance clip with commentary.…   Read Story »

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to select the rising bands which have connected them, someone wrote a long time ago. Or, something close to that. Here's what…   Read Story »

Last month, the Brooklyn trio Nude Beach released II, a relentlessly catchy album of classic-rock hooks played at punk-rock tempos. We've already seen their "Walkin' Down My Street" video, and today…   Read Story »

This week saw a serious abundance of straight-up fun, ridiculous videos -- four-minute blasts of joy that didn't take themselves the tiniest bit seriously. I'll take that over a bunch of serious art…   Read Story »

The Brooklyn-based band Nude Beach have their roots in their home borough's scuzzy DIY scene, but there's virtually no noise or abrasion to what they do. Instead, they play a fun and beery strain of…   Read Story »