Nude Beach

Owing as much to Exploding Hearts as Tom Petty, 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 Cough Cool). That year the band self-released a self-titled cassette and spent 2009 busily playing around New York with bands like Used Kids,...