Author Archives: David

Nova Social Happy Hour Playlist

Here are the songs we played at our “Nova Social Happy Hour” at 116 Bar on Friday, March 2: I Hate Milk – Air Miami There May Be Dark Days Ahead – Alden Tyrell In The Art Of Stopping – … Continue reading

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For Any Inconvenience Track-by-Track Commentary

“The Hard Part” David: One of the minute-long pieces Thom created for his 2008 Kendal Mintcake release was a particularly smutty track that, stripped of its late 60′s audio porn spoken bits, is quite the jam. It’s the first lyric … Continue reading

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Nova Social EP on YouTube

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New Nova Social Record…For Any Inconvenience

1. the hard part 2. we’ll help you move 3. the exception 4. martin 5. the star 6. the delano 7. company car 8. a boxer’s wedding 9. drunk at the prom coming fall 2011…more on the way

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Extended Remixes!

As Thom and I were finishing the recent Nova Social EP, we realized there was one major problem with all the songs: they simply weren’t long enough. In the tradition of Arthur Baker, Tom Moulton, etc., we created our own … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Yianni Papadopoulos

We first worked with Yianni in 2000 while recording our first full-length album, The Jefferson Fracture. Yianni seemed to inhabit an entirely different musical and cultural world than we were situated in — most of his projects were dance-pop or … Continue reading

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Sessions at Perfect Mixes

I got in touch with engineer Godfrey Diamond in the fall. I spent last year listening to Bionic Boogie’s “Hot Butterfly,” a song he co-produced in 1978 with his brother Gregg, at least once a week. It’s a beautiful song … Continue reading

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the new nova social blog

Hello and welcome to our new blog. We wanted something that looks a little more like our new website… which looks a little more like the artwork of our latest self-titled EP… which, coincidentally, we neglected to mention on the … Continue reading

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Style Over Substance

The lyrics and basic melody for “Style Over Substance” date back to early 2002. A very rough demo was recorded in Logic maybe around six months after that. It took us about five years to finally finish it, but when … Continue reading

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Nova Social Sounds Good in the Nude

Musician, DJ and bearded expat Tim “Love” Lee posted “Now You’re a Nun,” the first song off of the forthcoming Nova Social EP, on his blog. You can listen to the track and even participate in some sort of mildly … Continue reading

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