Nada Surf’s new Jonathan Krisel-directed video for “Whose Authority,” from the forthcoming Lucky, stars Michael C. Maronna, who you should all remember as the elder Pete from The Adventures Of Pete and Pete. Classic. Here, instead of dealing with his pain-in-the-ass kid brother or doing those sensitive wise-beyond-his-teenage-years voice overs, he’s working as a bad-ass bicycle messenger delivering packages around Manhattan after leaving his Brooklyn crib. En route he disrupts pigeons, chats with other two-wheeled friends, kicks over traffic cones, knocks on buses, and narrowly escapes collisions with taxi doors before heading back over the Wiliamsburg bridge and calling it a day. Yes, home to that cool place MTV told us about. Gosh we hope Kyp says hi this time.
That’s a really catchy song. Also: Like that Led Zeppelin commercial, this one’s obviously lined with Nada Surf cameos and references. Catch ‘em all? If you want a Lucky MP3, you should see “These Bones.”
Lucky is out 2/5 on Barsuk. Then you can catch ‘em live.
01/19 Vienna, Austria @ Arena
01/22 London, England @ Borderline [Sold Out]
01/30 Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door [Sold Out]
01/31 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
02/02 San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall [Sold Out]
02/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg [Sold Out]
02/08 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom [Sold Out]
02/14 Madrid, Spain @ Sala Heineken
02/15 Vigo, Spain @ Sala A
0216 Bilbao, Spain @ Cafe Antxokia
02/20 Paris, France @ Showcase
02/21 London, England @ Scala
02/22 Manchester, England @ Manchester Club Academy
02/23 Glasgow, Scotland @ The Garage
02/25 Brussels, Belgium @ Brussels Botanique/Orangerie
02/26 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland @ Melkweg/Max
02/27 Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall
02/28 Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan
02/29 Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Club
03/01 Munich, Germany @ Backstage
03/03 Lausanne, Switzerland @ Salle Metropole
03/04 Zurich, Switzerland @ Rohsotfflager
03/05 Milan, Italy @ Music Drome
03/17 Tempe, AZ @ Clubhouse Music Venue
03/18 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
03/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
03/21 Pomona, CA @ Glass House
03/22 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
03/25 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
03/26 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
03/28 Seattle, WA @ Showbox
03/29 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
04/01 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
04/02 Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room
04/03 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
04/04 Chicago, IL @ Metro
04/05 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
04/07 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
04/08 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
04/10 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
04/11 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
04/12 Washington DC, Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
04/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Trcoadero
Tickets seems to be selling out fast. They’re popular.
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pete and pete = one of the few positive contributions to cable television during the 1990′s.
Help a brother out…
What references did you catch?
stupid fixed gear bikes
The 4/11 Nada Surf gig at Terminal 5 is a co-headlining show with the original reunited Superdrag lineup! A night of power-pop goodness!
Just a great great song. The album is pretty damn good. Not their best, but then again “Let Go” is pretty hard to top.
Glad I got my tix already for the Terminal 5 show. I was too late pulling the trigger on the Williamsburg show, and it sold out. They are great live, and getting to see Superdrag with them is a great bonus.
A few years ago when I was living in Boston people use to see big Pete riding his fixed-gear around, so I guess this video isn’t a big leap.
Superdrag rules hard. A Nada Surf/Superdrag show would have given me a woodrow 6-7 years ago.
Um, what references are we looking for exactly, apart from the band member cameos?
yes. the messenger, the last great american hero. right?
sweet.
he is riding a GT.
Thanks for paying an already successful actor the money to pose as a messenger in NYC. I’m sure there aren’t any messengers out there who could do the shoot and use the money. Once again we watch as pop culture takes a big bite out of our community and contributes nothing in return. How about donating 1% of the net sales of this single to the Bicycle Messenger Emergency Fund? Help someone else while you help yourselves.
Hey, if they found an actual messenger to do the shoot we’d miss out on those hilarious moments like the one at 1:10 where said actor/messenger goes slamming into a parking meter while riding on the sidewalk… because he is unable to effectively control his speed. Funny.
Regardless of the shoot and actor choice I believe that the creator of this video should re-edit the short clip and on the last frames insert these words.
“The Bicycle Messenger Emergency Fund is a 501c3 non profit charity that provides emergency compensation to bicycle messengers around the world who are hurt on the job. ” Please donate and this is tax deductable. http://www.bicyclemessenger.org
So lame. Fixed wheels and bike messengers are so 2005.
I was him for halloween
haha
Older Pete still looks like a cool nice good guy…forget those other comments…Pete is SICK 4 ever in my opinion.
danilo, totally agree with you. Pete has skills….get over it cocky messengers, and enjoy the video.