The Mutations debut full-length, "High Tide", out now!

Southern Surf Stompcast

Our debut episode features an interview from North Carolina's Arrows out as well as music from groups that have performed previously at the Southern Surf Stomp.  It can be found streaming below or you can subscribe on iTunes.


Tracklisting:
The Monterreys "Machete!"
The Surge! "Paddle or Die",
The Mutations "Surfer's Dream",
Daikaiju "Flight of Garuda",
Kill, Baby...Kill! "Trioxin Twist",
The Mystery Men? "The Devil You Know",
Arrows Out "Yes, Maybe",
Arrows Out "Tessellate",
MOONBASE "Smoke",
El Fossil "Hair Pin",
Gemini 13 "Chopped and Channeled",
The High Fidelics "Lil' Curfew Breaker",
The Zaratans "Wavos Maximos".

Intro and outro music, "Southern Surf Syndicate Theme", provided by The Penetrators.

Monsters of Surf compilation

This compilation, spearheaded by the mighty Daikaiju, features the four groups from June's Stomp; the aforementioned Daikaiju, Kill, Baby...Kill!, The Mystery Men?, and El Fossil, as well as May's headliners The Mutations.

Here's part of an excellent review by my friend Noel from Surf Guitar 101:
"In a genre filled with great compilation albums of historic importance, and the best of current artists, this record stands firmly side-by-side with the very best. Monsters of Surf is an amazing, jaw-dropping record of music pushing at the contemporary edges of what it means to be surf music. This isn’t your father’s surf music, and I say that as someone who genuinely loves every note of music played and recorded by the founders of surf music, the artists who kept it alive and revived it, and the proponents of it today. This is that music on steroids, surfing hurricane-generated monster waves. This is powerful, extreme surf, head-banging, boundary-pushing, raucous, dangerous surf. I would never operate a motor vehicle listening to Monsters of Surf unless cruise control was firmly controlling the speed."

Photos from the second Southern Surf Stomp! on May 10, 2014

 Bruce Joyner and Atomic Clock

 Julea and her Dear Johns

The Mutations

Video for The Mutations

Second annual Surfin' Saturday at Atlanta Food Truck Park

This excellent event, organized by Jamie Galatas of the Mystery Men? and sponsored by our very good friend The Surf King Surfwear, takes place before the next Stomp and features seven of the best surf groups the Southeast has to offer.  All ages are welcome at this free event, where you can sample eats from the finest food trucks in the city while sipping on your favorite beverage you brought from home.

Second Stomp featuring The Mutations (TN), Julea & Her Dear Johns, and Bruce Joyner and Atomic Clock

  

Don't expect a repeat of the first stomp, this show will serve as the after party to the Atlanta Food Truck Surf Fest and features all vocal groups.

Knoxville, Tennessee's The Mutations play primarily vocal surf evocative of the Beach Boys, albeit with more garage rock leanings.

Julea Thomerson is a hillbilly Siren with pipes for days and a vast knowledge of roots music.  If that weren't enough, her band the Dear Johns are comprised of "a cast of formidable players, all veterans of Atlanta's roots music scene" (James Kelly, Creative Loafing) and at the top of their game.

Bruce Joyner (best known for his work with 80's SoCal punk legends The Unknowns) and Atomic Clock play raucous psychedelic garage punk.