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Be sure to check out Surf Radio and dig the great Surf, Garage and Hot Rod music!

The Waxfoot Surf Show spins surf rock and other cool music. It's an opportunity to get some valuable TV exposure for your band!

Surf rock and heavy metal legend Dick Dale is still absent from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Please visit his website to find out how you can help get him inducted.

Surf rock music at its best. North Of Malibu lays down a wild mixture of 80% surf with a little punkabilly and good ol' rock 'n' roll.

Dan 'Hound Dog' Taylor tells us about his chance encounter with The King of the Surf Guitar!

The Aquamarines new BAY OF REVERB LIVE! CD is now available! Includes fourteen (14) songs. FREE sample MP3s (full-length songs) available also.

The Fender Forum is a big collection of individual forums for discussing everything related to Fender. Topics include guitars, basses, amps, modifications, repairs, performing and recording.

The Musicians Online Database Exchange Brew's site helps you make that important connection!

If you dig surfing, you've got to check out The Dirt Farm. Those surf dudes and surf dudettes are a real gas! They love the ocean, they love to surf and they love dirt!

For a remarkable Space adventure, Hobby Space is a must see. While you are there, be sure to see Music Space - Listening to the Cosmos and Space Age Sounds - A Trek Through Space Pop of the 1950s and 1960s.

"We didn't even know we were The Beach Boys until the song came out."
...Mike Love
"I may not be good, but I'm moderately steady."
...Peewee

Texas Radio CD Released by Los High Tops, Acclaimed Surfabilly Band

Los High Tops
Texas Radio Full-Length CD Release!
Acclaimed Surfabilly band, Los High Tops, released “Texas Radio,” their first full-length CD, published by Nervous Music America. “Texas Radio” features an engaging mix of originals that draw from the diversity of Americana Roots music.

Tabarnacos Surfers
Hectares and Hectares of Decibels Quality!
From Melodic Surf to rock and roll garage, we always have an abrasive personal touch and we are generously delirious during our shows. We love our public so much that we do not hesitate to give them generously hectares and hectares of decibels quality!

The Incredible Mr. Smith
The Right Sound for Your Ears
An energizing mixture of California Surf, Spaghetti Western Sound in the tradition of Ennio Morricone, Hillbilly Twang and wild Sixties Rock combined with a lot of guitar action between Twang, Noise & Blues. The Incredible Mr. Smith has been an important figure in the international instro scene since 1997.

The Razorblades
Surf Music for the 21st Century
Influenced by Dick Dale and modern bands such as Slacktone, The Mermen and Jon & The Nightriders, they play surf music for the 21st century — dynamic, powerful and full of Twang. They've toured all over Germany and have met colleagues such as Slacktone and Fifty Foot Combo. Look out for The Razorblades when they come to your town!

Guitar Bob's Home Built Gigging Amplifiers
Courtesy of Guitar Bob
What can we, at Surf Rock .org, say about Guitar Bob Ohsiek? He's cool, he's talented, and he builds some damn fine guitar amplifiers! They don't just sit on a shelf. He gigs with 'em!

GOODNIGHT CBGBs
by Robert Lastdrager
...it was like something out of the Addams Family. The walls were covered thick with the posters, stickers, sweat, snot and ash of ten thousand bands, and I was keen as mustard to add our little poster to the sea of grimy paste and paper...

The Breakaways - Time Surfin' CD reviewed at Surf Rock .org by Stephen L. Robbins

The Breakaways
Time Surfin'
I consider the day I was asked to review Time Surfin' to be one of my luckiest. This is a really fantastic collection of classic style surf rock. The Breakaways are a blast from the past and are deeply connected to some of the best traditional surf music you're ever going to hear... by Stephen L. Robbins

Working at Fender
(or I decided to get a 'real job')
I worked assembling amps at Fender in '72 and '73. When I walked through the plant mornings and afternoons I would pass bins of 'blem' guitar necks slated for destruction at the bandsaw. I agonized over it: "Can't I just take 'em home?" As it was, I ended up importing a few handfuls of pots, switches, and jacks home in my lunchpail... By Guitar Bob

Sony Pictures Classics: Riding Giants Check it out! Be sure to check out the Riding Giants trailer.

Who says Surf isn't commercially viable?
Los High Tops wrote and recorded music for Hotwire's 30-second TV spots on Oprah!, SNL, E.R., Survivor and many fine programs.

The Tommys: Groove Based Surf Rock Very cool surf slackobilly sounds from Australia!

Twang Shebang Surf Rock Show Unsteady Freddie is now hosting the new Twang Shebang Surf Rock Show on Internet Radio! Don't miss it!

Jan Berry and Dick Dale Meet Unsteady Freddie!
Freddie is a cool guy! He tells us about meeting up with Surf and Hot Rod Legend Jan Berry and King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale!

DJ Clint Beachwood has a very groovy surf show on KCR College Radio. Be sure to check out "A Day at the Beach"! (Netcast)

Surf Music in Italy
SurferJoeMusic.com manages the information and news about all of the Italian surf bands ... biographies, audio files, posters, concert dates and various services!