Introducing: Surfer Blood

Name: Surfer Blood
From: West Palm Beach, Florida
Story: Not actually beach bums
Sound: Surfer Rosa gone surf music

Last week I introduced you to New Yorker hipsters The Drums, a hype-gathering outfit whose scandalous marriage of surf-rock and twee-pop has cemented them as one of the breakout bands of 2009.

Now, meet Surfer Blood. They hail from West Palm Beach, Florida (a town I'll always associate with a classic, Viva Last Blues-era single by Will Oldham), and, sure enough, there's a downpick'd twang to their shootin'-the-curl guitar stylings. But, it's surf-guitar by way of The Pixies: Surfer Blood making undeniably anthemic indie-rock replete with quiet/LOUD dynamic shifts.

On the band's forthcoming, January-due debut, Astro Coast, JP Pitts and his crew play dynamic guitar-music summoning early-'90s summers with its six-stringing crunch. The LP has already caused quite a ripple due to its first single, "Swim (To Reach the End)," the most crank-it-in-your-car-stereo-and-yell-along song this year not found on that Japandroids album.

Speaking of Japandroids, Surfer Blood will be touring with them in the coming weeks (from November 20 to December 1), as well as playing a run of shows supporting Art Brut (Nov. 6-14). All known shows below...

• Visit: Surfer Blood on MySpace

Surfing the Highways:
November 6: Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
November 7: Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
November 8: Omaha, NE - TBA
November 9: Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
November 10: Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
November 11: Oberlin, OH - Dionysus Disco
November 12: Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
November 13: New York City, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
November 14: Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
November 20: St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club
November 21: Omaha, NE - Slowdown
November 25: San Diego, CA - Casbah
November 27: Los Angeles, CA - Echo
November 29: San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
November 30: Portland, OR - Holocene
December 1: Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
December 7: Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space
December 9: Lubbock, TX - Bash Riprock's
December 10: Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre
December 12: Mobile, AL - Alabama Music Box
December 13: Orlando, FL - Backbooth