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SG101 convention weekend.
Fri. July 31st in San Diego, Bar Pink. 9 pm
Secret Samurai, The Verbtones from Portland, and The Tomorrowmen, from San Francisco.

Also Fri. July 31st in El Segundo-L.A. The Purple Orchid
Insect Surfers, The Boardwalkers, and The Surge from Atlanta.

Sat. Aug 1st. Surf Guitar 101 Convention, 11 am to 8 pm,
The Starting Gate, Los Alamitos, Ca.
The Ghastly Ones, The Tomorrowmen, The Verbtones featuring surf guitar legends Eddie Bertrand and Paul Johnson, The Surge, Secret Samurai, The Sand Devils, The Detonators,  The Reventlos, and probably a surprise short set by a band doing a reunion. a few weeks later.

Sun. Aug 2nd at the Huntington Beach pier, 11 am to 5 pm
Verbtones, The Surge, The Reventlos, The Eliminators, and The Chantays.

And working on getting the Duo tones, Paul Johnson, and Gil Ore at Don the Beachcombers, in Sunset Beach, 5 min north of HB pier.
Sun. Aug 2nd, 6 pm to 8 pm.

Also thinking about doing a show on Thurs. July 30th.

pheeeew.

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.

Link Wray Tribute concert - May 9, 2009 at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Oh.  Performing will be Link Wray's Raymen, Webb Wilder, Wraygun, The Topcats, Chris Webb, Jason Kay, & Gary Small special guests. This will be only the third tribute to Link ever, first in Cleveland. The venue is located at 15711 Waterloo rd. Cleveland, Oh. and tickets are available at the Beachland's website.

The Five kick off with a gig supporting Sydney's The Model School at Ric's Bar, Brisbane on 9th May.

Over the next 5 months The Five will be playing a limited run of 5 gigs, and releasing a 5-track EP of original tunes.

Stylistically the band's music covers Link Wray/Davie Allan/The Shadows/Dick Dale/The Ventures and all ports between.

www.thefive.com.au

Robbie Allen and The Outer Edge will be performing at the Park Chalet on April 25th, drummer Gary Christensen's birthday. So those of you in the Bay Area come on out and have a good time and offer your congrats for Gary. This will also mark Josh Tucci's last performance with the group until later this year as he will be spending the rest of spring and summer back home in Wisconsin due to prior commitments. Original bassist Geoffrey Clegg will be filling in until his return.

April 25th, 2009
Robbie Allen and The Outer Edge
Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Fransisco, CA 94121
http://www.beachchalet.com/

Hey everybody, this is Joe Jabon from Banzai Surf.

I am going to be starting to set up some surf shows up here in Seattle this Summer.

If you know anyone who's planning on making the trek near these parts or would just like to lay the ground work for playing up here in Latteville, give me a buzz and I'll do what I can to help set things up with local clubs, bands and radio stations.

Thanx

-joe jabon-
www.myspace.com/banzaisurf
joejabon@gmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Robbie Allen Ditches ‘Sundogs’; Says Hello to ‘The Outer Edge’

Sacramento, CA – With the band’s one-year anniversary looming just months away, Robbie Allen along with his band mates Josh Hester and Gary Christensen, have announced that they will be dropping the current name of the band (“The Sundogs”) for a title that better portrays their image and style of music. The surprise announcement comes in the wake of a legal hang-up regarding the use of the band’s current name, already a registered trademark of a Berkeley, CA based roots rock group. “The Sundogs” name was originally coined by Gary Christensen after much deliberation between the band’s original members. Gary and Robbie have both stated that it was not their intention to infringe on the rights of the current trademark holders and, at that time they were unaware of the Bay Area group (who ceased from touring nearly ten years ago) that had seven major releases – some of which are still available at select retailers. The band’s recent move to the title “The Outer Edge” was mutually agreed upon by the members of the group after considering over two-hundred titles. The decision was based on legal advice from the band’s attorney. In response to an email, Robbie Allen commented from his apartment overseas: “We think that while the core theme of our music draws heavily on the instrumental guitar trends of the 60s including surf music, on the same token, our style is very versatile and constantly adapting to the melting pot of influences and creative whims common to all three members of our band, not to mention the people we collaborate with behind the scenes. I think the new name reflects the edgier-sounding ‘acid surf rock’ vibe that is beginning to define us more and more.” The band has also decided to maintain “Robbie Allen” as part of the group’s name so as to avoid confusion during the transition. More info can be obtained by sending an email to press@m3california.com.

The web site for the SJ Summer Festival 2009 is online!
As you can see there is still something missing, you know... last minute confirmations, other bands, exhibitors... but most of it is there.

www.surferjoemusic.com/festival

I hope to see some of you guys at the fest this summer, it will be amazing! We managed to put together a very nice line-up of bands and the exhibition will be bigger. On the web site you find some info about accommodation, but feel free to contact us for details.

Good vibes,
Lorenzo

After months of work, we're ready to launch the brand new Double Crown Records website!

Check it out at: www.doublecrownrecords.com

It has a bunch of features that we're really excited about. It's easy to integrate video and audio into the website, both on the front page and in blog posts. We are still using CCNow for order processing, so for all of you long-time customers that part of ordering with us will be the same as usual. The shopping area of the website is much easier to navigate than the old site, and every item has a cover scan and track listing (for CD's and 7"s). There are options to view 10, 20, 50 or all items on a page, and best of all, there is a search function, so you can enter a band name or keyword, and get a list of every CD, 7" and magazine that features that band or keyword. For example, search for "The Madeira" and you'll see all 3 Double Crown CD's, plus the 3 issues of The Continental magazine that they appeared on the CD comp.

I have gone through the site and looked for any mistakes or broken links, but if you find one drop me an e-mail at: records@dblcrown.com. I would also welcome any comments or criticisms about the new site.

The old URL, www.dblcrown.com , will continue to work indefinitely. I will update both sites for the next few months or so, until I know that the new site definitely works. At that point I will then redirect www.dblcrown.com to the new site, so both URLs will work.

It's a big step - I haven't really ever updated the look and functionality of the old site, and it shows!

Order from either site until March 31st and take 20% off any order over $20.00 using coupon code: MARCH20
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Sean
Double Crown Records
www.dblcrown.com
http://doublecrown.blogspot.com

Howdy Surfer Boys and Girls!

There are many many things happening in The Pyronauts world, so read on to not miss important information:

We've been busy planning our 10 year anniversary party for June 13th this summer!  Make your plans now to be in attendance!  We will be featuring many former band members, have special guests, special displays, new merchandise, and possibly some very rare out of print vintage merchandise!  We hope to have serveral of our 10+ current and former drummers as well as our some of our 8 current and former bass players!  This will be a free show held at the former "U-Turn" building in Auburn.  Please contact us and let us know if you'd like to help with the show or have any cool pictures or video that you can send us!

We also have a very important show on May 15th at Slim's in San Francisco.  This is a huge club and it is a very big deal that we are opening for The Red Elvises there on this Friday night (May 15th).  It's our first time playing there and we need everyone's help to fill this place up!