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Unsteady Freddie, the "Ed Sullivan of Surf", the indefatigable world travelling surf fan, emcee, and owner of the world famous magic camera which has documented so many surf shows for all of us, is celebrating an imporant milestone. This year marks the ten year anniversary of his monthly SURF ROCK SHINDIG shows he puts on at Otto's Shrunken Head in New York City!

To comemorate this amazing achievement, Freddie is hosting two special SHINDIG events, one in May and one in June.

• May SHINDIG Facebook event
• June SHINDIG Facebook event

Performers for these events include The Clams, The Howlin' Thurstons, The Supertones, The Coffin Daggers, El Muchacho, Bongo Surf, The Tarantinos NYC, Mister Neutron, Ninth Wave, and Strange But Surf!

To keep up on Freddie's SHINDIG events, please check out his forum thread. And don't forget to follow Unsteady Freddie on Facebook!

Surf Guitar 101 Friends:  

The Surfaris are excited to announce confirmed 2014 shows for this summer.

Come join us for another season of summer fun and good surf music!

• May 3: Ventura, CA. - The Ventura Beach Festival (with The Motels) TICKETS    INFO
• May 24th:  - Miami, FL - Pinned Festival (with Los Straightjackets) TICKETS  Info
• June 29: Harris Center at Three Stages, Folsom Lake College, Folsom, CA (with Jan & Dean Show) TICKETS and Info
• July 4: Burbank, CA Starlight Bowl, Burbank, CA (with The Tokens) TICKETS  INFO
• July 5: Horizon, San Diego, CA More info TBA

Go the thesurfaris.com for new updates, shows and recordings.

Join The Surfaris on Facebook  and Twitter for the latest news and photos from the 2013 50th Anniversary Tour as well as keep in line with the 2014 events.

North Sea Surf Radio was already doing groundbreaking work with compiling and broadcasting the Classic Surf Top 101 and the Surf Revival Top 101. Now, for the first time in history the surf music scene is to compile another ultimate list in surf music; The Album Top 101, the best 101 Surf Revival Albums as voted for by the listeners of North Sea Surf Radio and the members of the Surf Guitar 101 forum.

Everybody can submit their 10 personal favourite albums from the Surf Revival Era (1979-2013). Records released this year are excluded from the list. With all the contributions the team at North Sea Surf Radio will compile the Album Top 101 which will be broadcasted on April 20th, presented by DJ Jonpaul (Surf Guitar 101) and DJ Phantom (North Sea Surf Radio).

People can help decide what the best instrumental surf music albums of all time are by adding their Top 10 to the Surf Guitar 101 forum in the following thread.

Another option to submit votes it to send an email with name, country and the Album Top 10 list to TOP101@northseasurfradio.com

The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th April.

Please note: 

• Albums are releases with at least 5 different tracks or over 25 minutes of music.
• NO 2014 albums allowed.
• NO "Best Of" albums allowed.
• NO Various Artist compilation albums allowed.
• NO Single Artist compilation albums allowed (b-sides, single collections etc.)
• If an album contains some vocal tracks this is not a problem as long as the majority of tracks are instrumentals.
• The order of the albums DOES matter, the number 1 will receive the most points in the Top 101, your number 10 will receive the least points.

The Pyronauts are going to Europe this summer to play the Surfer Joe Festival in Italy!  The band will also travel to a few other countries (TBA).

The buoys will be taking their new CD: The Pyronauts Live in San Francisco with them, but they need your help to make it happen!

Please pledge what you can through their Kickstarter campaign: http://kck.st/1hiwcad

They will be throwing a party on Saturday, April 26th in Auburn, CA at the Auburn Event Center.  Please attend if you can!  Even if you are out of the area, your support is still needed and the band will send you merchandise through the kickstarter campaign.

Up-to-date info, updated website, and tour dates at www.thepyronauts.com

Check out the excellent cover art by Fred: