SurfMusic.com features Surf Music that
is broadcast on the internet,
including broadcast radio stations,
mp3 sites, net radio, and live
Surf Music shows! A very comprehensive
list of Surf Bands is maintained. Surfmusic.com
features four decades of SurfMusic
performed by artists such
as Dick Dale, The Surfaris, The Ventures,
Jan and Dean, The Chantays,
The Tornadoes, The Beach Boys,
Jan and Dean, The Penetrators,
The Bel-Airs, The Mermen, The Eliminators,
The Sandals, The Tornadoes, The Bel-Airs, The Malibooz,
The Pyronauts, The Blue Hawaiians, Agent Orange,
Pollo Del Mar, Los Straitjackets, Laika & the
Cosmonauts, Los Straitjackets,
The Insect Surfers, Los Mel-Tones, The Torquays, Jon and the Night
Riders,The Madeira, The Surf Kings, The Duo-Tones, Pollo Del Mar, Slacktone, The Sandals, The Lively
Ones...
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music store.
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You can see uploaded songs to the live365 Surf Music station on the music page.
SurfMusic.com's Surf Music Station at live365.com!
There
are 270 Surf Songs. That's 12 1/2 hours of Surf Music! Surf Music Heaven! The songs
can be played on dial up, cable,
and DSL connections.
Thanks for listening. Surf's Up!
Sound of the Surf is the first feature documentary to tell the true story of Surf Music. Co-developed with musician and author John Blair, Director Thomas Duncan spent over three years researching and filming entirely in HD. The doc explores the early 60's when venues like The Rendezvous Ballroom, Harmony Park Ballroom, Revelaire Club and the Retail Clerk's Hall dominated the Southern California music scene . But it didn't stop there. Blair goes beyond the rumored demise of Surf, to the late 70's when his band "Jon and the Nightriders" re-ignited the Surf phenom in the middle of a LA punk scene. He winds it up today as that scene has spread across the globe and thousands of bands now come from nearly every nation. Live performances are included by today's best bands who show the diversity and innovation that Surf Music continues to experience. Bands appearing in the film include The Eliminators, Surfaris, Slacktone, The Madeira, Surfcoasters, Meshugga Beach Party, The Bitch Boys, The Barbwires, Wadadli Riders, Los Straitjackets and more.
Dick Dale has been inducted into the Musicians Hall Of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. October 15, 2009. Legends Chet Atkins, Billy Cox, Dick Dale, Charlie Daniels, Fred Foster, Victor Feldman, Paul Riser, and band TOTO all became members of the prestigious club that already includes Booker T. & The MGs, The Crickets, Duane Eddy, Al Kooper, The Memphis Horns, The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Billy Sherrill, The Nashville A-Team, The Blue Moon Boys, The Funk Brothers, The Memphis Boys, The Tennessee Two, and The Wrecking Crew.
Catch the big wave of family fun at Surf Ohio Festiki 2010, the second annual celebration of classic surf, tiki and hot rod culture in Dayton, Ohio at Old River Park.
Saturday August 14, 2010. Festiki 2010.
Surfer Joe Summer Festival 2010. Livorno Tuscany, Italy.
This festival is huge; the greatest surf music event in the world!!! Surf Bands from all over the world are showcased. Admission is free.
June 24-27, 2010
Start planning now for The Surfer Joe Summer Festival 2011.
Hey, Check out SurfGuitar.com, a fantastic site with lots of information on Surf Music. There are links to videos, information about guitars, Surf Band links, current news, new release information and more...
Wadadli Riders new album.
Ten original tracks of pure instrumental Surf Music, from the Caribbean island of Antigua.
Pure Tropical Reverb Drenched Surf.
Soon available in 12" Vinyl.
Gil McLean, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based on Long Island, New York for hire as a musician. Listen at Myspace - Shredding Shortboards, Chevy Nova, Revenge of the Rickenbackers, and my favorite, Beach Boys' cover Let The Wind Blow.
I've posted a playlist of Surf Music that I put together at MySpace.
Hey, there are 62 songs right now. Cool.
Two researchers on this site have been working alongside Dean and other people relevant to Jan & Dean to build up the greatest Jan & Dean resource on the internet. Check it out for biographies, photographs, discographies, downloads and more. jananddean.moonfruit.com
The official Jan & Dean Site .
Jan Berry and Dean Torrence were riding a tidal wave of hits in the 60s, but it all came crashing to a halt with Berry's tragic car accident. As Berry battled through a difficult recovery he spent three years recording songs for CARNIVAL OF SOUND. Despite the quality of the music, the album was never released and became one of rock 'n' roll's lost treasures, until now.
Monthly Surf Nite! at Jimmy's Seaside in Stamford, CT
Surf Nite! has moved to Two Boots in Bridgeport, CT.
The last Thursday of each month.
Presented by NESMA (North East Surf Music Alliance)
281 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604
Cost: $5
A one hour broadcast contains "Web Wizard" Mike Elam's guest appearance on Barry Sultanoff's weekly show on Manao Radio from Wailuku, Maui. Broadcast Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Mike spent an hour highlighting vintage and current "Surf" music he discovered in video clips hosted on YouTube.com. Tons of music.
Beach Boy Brian Wilson, enshrined in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, author of classic songs "Good Vibrations," "God Only Knows" and "Surfin' USA," and the creative force behind all-time classic album "Pet Sounds," was featured at the Kennedy Center Honors. Washington Post
Brian's biography
The Fendertones Hey check this out on youtube.com, Watch the amazing live performances of Beach Boys classics, The Little Girl I Once Knew ('65)/Help Me Rhonda ('65), and God Only Knows ('66), California Girls, Let Him Run Wild., and the instrumental, Pet Sounds ('66). From Pennsylvania. DVD?
Surfer Joe Music. All things SurfMusic, wordwide.
The founder of The Surfer Joe Music Festival held yearly in Livorno, Italy.
Listen to reverb in Italian.
Richard Delvy, who played a key role in the devlopment of surf music, has passed away. A composer, arranger and publisher, and was the drummer of pioneering surf combo, The Bel-Airs.
Febuary 6, 2010.
Dave Bruer of the Fathers Resource Center was killed recently in a motorcycle accident. Dave was a committed advocate who helped many, many fathers with their custody and family law problems. Dave began working as an advocate for fathers nearly 20 years ago. He brought the Fathers Resource Center - which formed to help fathers with issues such as paternity to domestic abuse, to custody and visitation - to Encinitas in 1997. He was a great fan and promoter of Surf Music. The Duo-tones + 2 + Friends: Memorial Tribute to Daddy Dave "Don't Fear The Reverb" Bruer at the Huntington Beach International Surf Museum on September 30, 2007, at The Huntington Beach Surf Museum.
Surf Products
Take a look at my iMix also found on the music page. It contains 12 surf songs. You will need iTunes to see the list.
A newly added Art Page on this site. Great prices and selections of Surf Art.
Les Williams Legendary Surfer Les Williams has passed away, July 2007.
Note that his picture graces the cover of The Beach Boys 'Surfin' USA" album.
“Delightful
Rain” is a celebration of Australian
surf music and our beach culture over the last five decades.
Filmed and recorded between May 13th and 27th 2006, in the Freshwater
Surf Life Saving
Club, right on the beach at Harbord on Sydney’s
North Shore, and looking out over the water where in 1915 Hawaiian
Duke Kahanamoku introduced surfing to Australia. This was a unique
recording project. “Delightful Rain” gathered together some of Australia’s
greatest ever surf music artists to record material, old and
new, and to tell their stories and to celebrate the journey of
Australian surf music. Listen
to an Interview with
executive producer, David Minear.
View a video of "The Surfaris" from the TV Special "AT THE DRIVE-IN".
Performed October 3, 2004. As an added bonus, "The Surfaris" have
links to mp3 files of "Point Panic", "Penetration", "Apache",
and "Misirlou".
The Surfaris website.
Interviews and Surf Music Related
News
Eugene Landy the psychologist who gained notoriety for his controversial treatment of and control over Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, Eugene died March 22, 2006.
Visit Paul Johnson's site.
Check out his recent improvements, including the colorful new "tour" at the "history" page and an even greater abundance of free audio streaming - about 150 complete tunes (not just samples) - on his various "specialty" pages. Read an article about Paul Johnson, in the North County Times (San Diego, CA).
A Performance from the Past
The Duotones performance
Saturday, November 22, 2003 on Garrison Keilor's Prarie
Home Companion, was braoadcast live from the San Diego
Civic Theatre (sold out) on Minnesota Public Radio.
Les Paul, a brilliant guitarist, who helped revolutionize the electric guitar and musical recording technology with his innovations of multi-track recording and overdubbing has passed away at 94, August 13, 2009. The music industry has lost a true innovator and legend. Gibson Guitar link. Rolling Stone link - with video..
Buddy the Surf Dog (1)(2) Complete with surf music! Filmed at Ventura Beach, CA.
Check out individual band websites for their performance schedules.
