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Surf Webzines, Tablature and MIDI Files

3rd Eye Surfer Zine - Surf music webzine.
Beach Boys MIDI Files - MIDI files of The Beach Boys music.
Guitars and Cars - A photographic museum of guitars, amps, cars, motorcycles and other cool stuff. Home of The DelReys surf band.
HangNine - Surf rock music webzine.
Lance Monthly - The Lance Monthly Newsletter by Lance Records.
NESMA: North East Surf Music Alliance - NESMA covers the East Coast surf music scene.
Pacific Northwest Bands - A collection of more than 2,900 Pacific Northwest bands that existed between 1954 and 1979.
Pipeline - Instrumental surf and rock magazine.
Reverb Brasil - Brazilian surf rock music page with information about Brazilian surf music events. In Portuguese at this time, but an English version is coming very soon.
Reverb Central - Home of Phil Dirt.
Ryan's Surf Music - History of surf music.
Sandcastle V.I. - Large Ventures resource.
ShadowMusic Web Community, The - A whole world of Shadows music clubs in the UK and across the world.
Space Age Sounds - A trek through space pop of the 1950s and 1960s.
Surfbands.com - Links to radio and stores, gig information and photos.
Surfmusic.com - Links to radio stations, bands and goodies.
Tsunami Soul Surf Music Page - Surf music history with links.
Walker, Don - Ventures MIDI files and history.


Surf Radio and Podcasts

A Day at the Beach - Clint Beachwood's podcast.
Big Surf - Formerly Tsunami Soul Radio. Tuesday 6:00-8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on WOBC 91.5 FM. Listen via webcast.
Casbah, The - Brian Parrish's podcast. The program airs live every Saturday night on KSYM 90.1, San Antonio, Texas ( http://www.alamo.edu/sac/ksym/schedule.htm ).
Devlar Surf Sessions - Internet surf radio.
Radio Free Bakersfield - A 60 minute podcast featuring indie and unsigned bands.
Reverb Central - Phil Dirt's podcast.
Reverb Hour with Cousin Mary - Saturday 8:00-9:00 p.m. Pacific Time on KFJC 89.7 FM. Listen via netcast.
Storm Surge of Reverb - Surf and Instro Rock and Roll. Monday 4-6pm Central time. Podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/stormsurgeofreverb.
SurfGuitar101 - SG101's podcast.


Music Gear and Geneal Discussion Forums

2 Car Garage - Discussing '60s and '70s Garage Band Music.
Cafe Saxophone - Where saxophone players meet.
Charlie Hall & Friends - For guitarists of all styles and technicians of guitar related equipment.
Fender Forum - Discussing all things related to Fender.
Gear Page, The - A very popular gear discussion website for musicians.
Gearslutz.com - Gear and more gear. This is a huge and busy forum.
Gretsch Guitar Discussion Forum - For lovers of vintage and modern Gretsch guitars.
Harmony Guitars Discussion Board - The place to discuss everything Harmony.
Ibanez Collectors World - Discussions of interest for collectors of Ibanez guitar products.
Ibanez Forum - Ibanez discussions.
Instrumental As Anything - Reverberations from Duane Eddy on.
Let's Talk Guild - The place for Guild enthusiasts.
Mosrite Forum, The - Mosrite guitar discussion.
Music Electronics Forum - Discussion forum about building , modifying and maintaining musical electronic devices such as guitar amps and effects.
Reverborama - Surf rock music discussion group.
RickResource - Rickenbacker guitar and bass forum.
Sax on the Web Forum - Saxophone discussion.
Surf Guitar 101 - Instro-surf music. Features a popular surf music forum.
Underground Fire - Ventures discussion group.
Vintage Amps Forum. - For guitars and gear.
Vintage Drum Forum - The largest drum forum for vintage drums and their history.


Record Labels

Acme Records - An independent label operating out of northern Massachusetts. The majority of releases are hardcore punk rock, but exceptions include less extreme forms of punk, rock & roll, and surf.
Deep Eddy Records - Specialists in instrumental surf music. Located in Austin, Texas.
Del-Fi Records - The legendary label for Ritchie Valens, Bobby Fuller, Frank Zappa, Barry White, Johnny Crawford, great surf and rock and roll.
Double Crown Records - Surf, garage and rockabilly.
El Toro Records - The rocking and rolling record label from Spain.
Estrus Records - Surf and garage. Located in Bellingham, Washington.
FUZZnSURF Records - The voyage continues! Located in Germany.
Fuzzpop Records - Purveyors of fine guitar pop, instro-surf, rock 'n' roll, and all things cool. Located in the United Kingdom.
Garage-Pop Records - The finest in Rock N' Roll since 1999.
Gem Buzz Records - The most addicted singer/songwriter, Americana label in Europe. Located in Bensheim (Bergstr.), Germany.
Golly Gee Records - Where the Cats are Rockin'. The hottest rockabilly, surf and rock 'n' roll music from the heppest cats around today.
GraveWax Records - GraveWax Records releases the sickest rockabilly, surf, spaghetti western, and every other form of archaic music around, including the Creepniks, the Route 66 Killers, the Gore Knobs, and loads more.
Green Cookie Records - A Greek based surf label.
Greenhaw Records - Grammy Award-winning label featuring the music of Nokie Edwards, former lead guitarist of The Ventures; this site also features "Art Greenhaw's International Guitar Celebration" a Texas music festival featuring surf rock.
Guitar Nine Records - Guitar Nine Records is a guitar-oriented record label whose web site contains more than 1800 instrumental guitar CDs for sale, plus feature columns on guitar playing, releasing records, artistic inspiration and more.
HairBall8 Records - Do you still believe in rock 'n' roll? Independent label based in San Diego,
Heyday Records - San Francisco based independent record label featuring alternative pop, surf, rockabilly, lounge and swing artists.
Hillsdale Record Company - Surf, garage and hot rod music.
Kamikaze Records - Home of the finest in surf, rockabilly, rock 'n' roll.
Lance Records - The Internet source for '60s surf and garage band music!
MuSick Recordings - Instro/surf/garage/rock 'n' roll record label!
Norton Records - Surf Music, instrumental rock, garage rock, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. Home to the frantic sounds of Link Wray, The Sonics, The Wailers, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Jon & The Nightriders, Bobby Fuller Four and many other great artists.
Paradisemoon Records - An indie label based in Honuapo Bay, Hawaii founded in 1997 by Bali Lau Entertainment Group, a new media production company. We feature world music on an art, entertainment, and travel theme web site and promote unique music artists in the world rock, surf rock instro, and eclectic new age smooth jazz fusion guitar genres.
Pascal Records - From surf/lounge to avant/spy/jazz to space/classical to ambient/trance, Pascal Records is committed to bringing the listener a standard of quality that can be relied upon, without compromising an adventurous spirit.
Reptile Records - A Glenwood Springs, Colorado based record label featuring surf music.
Rickshaw Records - Promotes and distributes instrumental artists from all over the world.
Sundazed Music - Reissues original albums of classic and overlooked sounds from the 60s: surf and hot rod music, garage rock, psychedelic, pop, country, folk-rock, soul and rockabilly on CD and vinyl.
Surfdog Records - Presents new, cool, street-credible artists. Located in Encinitas, California.
Tremolo Records - An instrumental world of vibrational visual sound from the U.K.
Wildebeest Records - An independent record label specializing in 1960s style rock 'n' roll.
Yep Roc Records - A record label for music lovers. Rather than focus on one genre or niche of music, Yep Roc strives to put out records that feature some of the best, most soulful music of any kind.
Zptduda Music - Offering CDs from unsigned, independent, and small-label artists. Specializes in instrumental surf music and Washington, DC local artists.


Agents and Promotion

Jim Facey Productions - Representing The Ventures, The Surfaris, The Chantays, The California Girls and many others.
NESMA: North East Surf Music Alliance - Promotes the East Coast surf music scene.
Surfer Joe Music - Worldwide surf music promotion, information and booking. News about surf music artists and events.
Unsteady Freddie - Surf rock music promoter.


Hints, Tips, How-To

Help For Timing And Accuracy - If your timing and accuracy aren't what you want them to be, here's a little trick that will improve them.
Sticker Shock - How to remove stickers from guitars.
Supercharged Guitar Slinging - How to double pick a guitar.



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