Matthew Caws

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this week’s episode Rhett welcomes Matthew Caws, frontman and founding member of the beloved alternative rock band Nada Surf. With hits like "Popular" and "Always Love," he has built a legacy of thoughtful, emotionally honest music that has captivated indie rock fans since the mid-90s. Matthew explains why living in Cambridge has deepened his connection to music history, shares insights into his songwriting process, and opens up about how meditation has become a crucial tool for managing anxiety and nurturing his creativity. Nada Surf’s new record Moon Mirror is out now Follow Matthew @matthewcaws Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	He started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Matthew Caugh's band, not a serf, has been together even longer somehow than the old 97s have been together.
0:33.2	Granted, there's been, I think, one member change in there, which maybe eliminates them from the conversation of the longest standing original member band.
0:45.6	But, look, we're not here to have any sort of competition.
0:49.9	We're here to celebrate creativity in the creative life.
0:53.5	And Matthew Cause has definitely trafficked in a lifetime of creativity.
0:59.5	So what an incredible opportunity it was for me to get to talk to him all the way from the
1:05.1	UK.
1:06.0	We were labelmates, but never met.
1:08.9	We have been members of the same music scene, even lived in the
1:15.1	same city for some stretches of time, but I've never gotten to be, you know, one step removed from
1:25.8	this brilliant songwriter and musician.
1:28.7	So I'm so grateful, as is so often the case, Wheels Off has brought me into proximity
1:34.1	with a kick-ass artistic human being in Matthew Cause.
1:40.3	So I'm really grateful that he submitted to the Wheels Off treatment,
1:43.6	and I'm really glad that you're going to get to hear his wisdom that he so generously shares.
1:49.7	So please welcome to Wheels Off, Not Asserfs, Matthew Cause.
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