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Sad news from The Ventures website. Founding member Bob Bogle passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2009. At least we'll always be able to cherish the great music that Bob made with The Ventures. Here is a clip of "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from the Beloved Invaders film (1965). Thank you for the years of fantastic music Bob!

Another track from their highly anticipated first album of all new material in 10 years, "Psychsploitation"! Satan's Pilgrims, the Northwest's premiere purveyors of surf and guitar instrumentals invite you take a trip with them on the psychedelic side of things. "Psychsploitation" features 13 garage psychedelic guitar instrumentals that will blow your mind. Available on CD and LP in June 2009 on SP records! Pre-orders are available now at www.satanspilgrims.com!

Courtesy of tdsurf, check out this rare footage of Jon and the Nightriders playing 'The Wedge', a Dick Dale classic, at the Whiskey-a-go-go circa 1981. John Blair, Dusty Watson, Dave Wronski, Niki Syxx.

John wrote the 4th edition of "The Illustrated Discography of Surf Music; 1961-1965". For books, CDs and more on J&TN visit http://www.johnblair.us.

Check out this killer video for The Madeira's Crescent Moon. This was filmed for the upcoming surf documentary Sound of the Surf. Don't forget The Madeira are playing tomorrow night in Indianapolis and next month in Champaign, Illinois! Keep your eyes out for more sneak peek videos from the Sound of the Surf project.

The Pounding Surf full-length documentary explores the roots and branches of the SoCal surf music scene from 1961 to the present. Narrated by Paul Johnson, featuring interviews with and concert footage of first, second and third-wave surf artists. Includes "The Art of Surf Drumming", 75 minutes of tips and lessons from four great drummers, including the incomparable Dusty Watson. Grab your copy at surfdrums.com or from Paul's website!

Here is a cool new video from Argentina's Los Kahunas: 6G15. Enjoy!

Here we have a brilliant video and stellar surf song from Argentina's The Tormentos. This is Dragstrip Night from their split album "The Phantom Surfers Race Against The Tormentos".

Holy Surf Legends, Batman! Check out Eddie Bertrand (Belairs, Eddie & The Showmen) playing Mr. Rebel, Squad Car, and Dark Eyes, with The Eliminators at Linda Miller's Birthday Bash! Taped at The Gas Lamp, Long Beach Ca. 2-23-3008 by HBKahuna. This is truly great stuff!

Edit (April 2016): This video has was hosted on blip.tv which seems to have gone under.

Wow, check out Dick Dale performing Esperanza at the 2008 NAMM show! There are many more clips from the NAMM show on YouTube featuring Dick. Check them out!

Here is a classic video from the stylish, suave, and debonair Penetrators! Here is Redlined from their epic album Locked & Loaded.