By harnessing his love for surf rock and other, disparate music forms all at once, Simon Hanes and his Tsons of Tsunami is making the case for why we should enjoy this audacious mixture of styles, too.

Nick Millevoi and Rob Stabinsky are plenty capable of making serious music but Grassy Sound is about them having fun.

Chillingsworth Surfingham is actually a pseudonym for John Ashfield, who is the leader of the internationally known San Francisco band the Bobbleheads.

Desertion Trio’s fun and unpredictable all-covers ‘Twilight Time’ is a vehicle for mining a wide range of non-jazz influences for Nick Millevoi.

In unveiling his Superette band, Chris Lightcap shows that he invests a fair amount of serious artistry into his work even when he’s making casually fun music.

Packed with cool pictures of musicians, vinyl, guitars and gig posters, John Blair’s ‘Southern California Surf Music 1960-1966’ is a surf rock bible.

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