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Surf inspired instro powered by swamp gas !!!! Located on the beach in the Sea Of Reverb. Check out our website for links to other great surf bands from around the world.
The Anacondas, a spicy surf band from Amsterdam with a taste for ballroom blitz and psychedelic bizarre. The Anacondas started in 2000 when Johnny Torpedo stopped playing raw power punk with his band The Killers. Johnny had enough of noise and distortion and started to gain more interest in reverb and vibrato. He met Jack Stuka, Pete Python and Messerschmitt Marzl and formed The Anacondas, a surf style band with a rock & roll heart.
The Aqualads got together in 1997 under their original moniker of the Big Swinging Hammers while playing out their set of '60s surf rock instrumentals throughout their native of Charlotte, NC. With a live set that partially consists of covers and their backing go-go dancers the Aquanettes, the bands first official release was a 1998 Christmas 7" aptly titled Aqualads XMAS. After a slight lineup change that left guitarist Jimmy King as the only original Aqualads member, the rest of the quartet consisted of Greg Walsh (guitar), Colin LaRocque (drums), and Jeremy DeHart (bass). Soon after this settled lineup was complete, the band eventually released their debut album, entitled Hotbox, in 1999.
Denver's premier instrumental surf band!
The Aquasonics are a Denver, Colorado based Surf band. We play all instrumental, traditional, reverb soaked, guitar driven Surf Music like you might have heard in Southern California in the early sixties.
Excellent Surf trio in central Connecticut, USA!
It is not very common to find a band that succeeded to shape a brand new musical genre. The Astroglides, who coined the term 'Surf Core' to describe their own blend of dark surf and metallic thrash-core managed to galvanize a new power tool that retained the true essence of surf music with guitars played through vintage Fender amps, reverb units and speakers with the aid of a slashing theremin and exotic musical instruments. Since their formation in 1997, the Astroglides have been crafting unique instrumental and vocal Surfcore tunes, alongside and separated from both the Israeli musical mainstream and the local alternative scene. Leading their own crusade, the band released their first two albums "Penetrate with" and "Fondling with" in the Israeli independent label Fast Music in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Later joined their third effort "Channel Surfing with" a record that was based around TV and movie instrumentals, including cover versions of obscure theme songs from old Israeli TV shows.
One of the greatest instrumental surf groups did not even hail from America. The Atlantics, despite their name, were an Australian combo who not only emulated the sound of California surf music, but ranked among its very best practitioners. Featuring a reverb-heavy, extremely "wet" sound, The Atlantics attacked original material, standards, and movie themes with a nervy blend of precision and over-the-top intensity. As in Dick Dale's music, touches of Middle Eastern influences can be detected in the rhythms of melodies (some members of the group claimed Greek and Egyptian heritage). Their second single, "Bombora," went to the top of the Australian charts in 1963, and the follow-up, "The Crusher," was also a big hit. But Beatlemania spelled commercial death for The Atlantics, as it did for U.S. surf combos, in 1964 and 1965. After several albums and a few more equally fine instrumental singles, The Atlantics became a vocal group in the last half of the '60s, but are most renowned for their instrumental recordings.
New EP "Hope" by The Baltic Side is now available at http://thebalticside.bandcamp.com/releases
Cutting edge instrumental combo from Croatia.
