Editing Nada Surf (section)

===2000s===
In 2000, Nada Surf released ''The Proximity Effect'' in the United States on their own label, MarDev (named after Caws' maternal grandmother, Margaret Devereux Lippitt, daughter of the painter [[Margaret Walthour Lippitt]]), after being dropped by Elektra. Subsequently, the band performed at their record release party at [[Luna Lounge]] in New York City and toured extensively for several months to rebuild their North American fan base.

From 1999 to 2002, the band members took regular day jobs: Caws worked at a Brooklyn record store called Earwax,<ref name=ThirdCoast-MCint>{{cite web |last=Jayasuriya |first=Sahan |title=Still "Popular": An Interview with Nada Surf's Matthew Caws |work=Third Coast Daily |date=December 6, 2012 |location=Milwaukee |url=http://thirdcoastdaily.com/2012/12/still-popular-an-interview-with-nada-surfs-matthew-caws/
|url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102131600/http://thirdcoastdaily.com/2012/12/still-popular-an-interview-with-nada-surfs-matthew-caws/ |archive-date=November 2, 2013 }}</ref> Lorca worked on some computer projects, and Elliot did drum and guitar session work for other artists. Caws later referred to these times as a period of luxury, and the record store job as his "favorite job ever."<ref name=PMatters-Toronto2012>{{cite web|last=MacIntyre|first=Dave|title=Nada Surf - 4 April 2012 - Toronto|url=http://www.popmatters.com/post/157151-nada-surf-4-april-2012-toronto/|work=Pop Matters|access-date=October 31, 2013|date=April 12, 2012}}</ref>

In 2002, they released ''[[Let Go (Nada Surf album)|Let Go]]'', a critically acclaimed album<ref name=Billboard-LetGo>{{cite news|last=R|first=C|title=Let Go|newspaper=Billboard|date=February 8, 2003}}</ref> that included the single "Inside of Love". They went on tour for several months, including many European festivals, in the summer of 2003. Mostly recorded the year before, the album was produced by their friends Louie Lino and Chris Fudurich, who had engineered ''The Proximity Effect''; the band paid them with $1 and $5 bills, the money earned from tour merchandise sales.

In 2005, Nada Surf released ''[[The Weight Is a Gift]]'', an album produced by [[Chris Walla]] (among others), and finished touring for this album in October of the following year.<ref name=Lazy-I-Elliot>{{cite web|last=McMahan|first=Tim|title=Nada Surf: Back to the Van|url=http://www.timmcmahan.com/nada.htm|work=Lazy-I.com|publisher=The Omaha Reader|access-date=October 31, 2013|date=February 22, 2006}}</ref> The record was made during a month spent at John Vanderslice's [[Tiny Telephone Studios]] in San Francisco.<ref name=PopM-TenYrConv>{{cite web|last=Rubin|first=Joey|title=Finally Professional: A Conversation with Nada Surf at Ten Years Old|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/nada-surf-050930/|work=Pop Matters|access-date=October 31, 2013|date=September 29, 2005}}</ref>

In 2008, the band released ''[[Lucky (Nada Surf album)|Lucky]]'', an album made with producer [[John Goodmanson]] at the [[Robert Lang Studios]] in [[Seattle]], from material recorded the year before. That same year, their song "No Quick Fix" was featured as the Spinner MP3 of the Day, and they were featured on the cover of ''[[Beyond Race Magazine]]'' for the publication's winter issue.