Southern Surf Stomp! presents Los Freneticos, The Mystery Men?, and more!

Los Freneticos (Argentina)

The Mystery Men?
Moonshield
Scott Yoder

At 529 (529 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316)
Tuesday, August 13th at 8pm
$10 / 21+
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Southern Surf Stomp! presents Phatlynx, Flamethrowers, Netherglades

Phatlynx is back with their finger lickin', Southern fried instrumentals (with maybe a couple of greasy vocal numbers). The band features one Crispy Bess who you may have seen or heard performing with SCOTS, Uncle Tupelo, or possibly even Tiny Tim! Crispy, along with bandmate Robby Poore, is also responsible for the world renown Instro Summit. Also performing is Athens' The Flamethrowers and legendary Bruce Joyner's (the Unknowns) Netherglades.

8:00pm - doors open
8:30pm - Netherglades
9:30pm - Flamethrowers
10:30pm - Phatlynx

$8 cover and all ages welcome

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Crimson Ghosts, ELZIG, El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists

The Crimson Ghosts (MA) offer up instrumental surf covers of Misfits tunes, ELZIG is "the demon Elvis" straight from the strip of HellVegas, just south of Memphis, and across the Georgia state line, and performing aggressive spaghetti-surf is Atlanta's own El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets), The Surge!, Caroline & the Ramblers

After a bit of a much needed break we're back, and our first show of the year is going to be a fabulous one!  Welcoming once again to Kavarna we have Grammy nominee Eddie Angel, performing some of his best works from Los Straitjackets, The Neanderthals, Eddie Angel's Guitar Party, and more.  Also on the bill we have our good friends, roots and rockabilly act Caroline & the Ramblers and Atlanta surf mainstays The Surge!

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Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Indicators, Nuclear Juarez, Jeffrey Bützer

Our last show of the year! We've got Atlanta rockers The Indicators (featuring one of my favorite guitarists in town, Michael Goldman) reuniting for one night only, San Antonio's psych surfers Nuclear Juarez, Spaghetti Western inspired solo guitar from my main man Jeffrey Bützer, and special guest DJ Brian Parrish, host of "The Casbah" radio show on KSYM and drummer for Nuclear Juarez.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Del Rios, The Wheel Knockers

We'll be warming the crowd for the later show upstairs at the Star Bar with some hot dogs on the patio and some cool tunes with our friends The Del Rios from Cleveland, OH and The Wheel Knockers in the Little Vinyl Lounge located beneath the Star Bar.

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Surf Guitar 101 Convention, August 4th-6th (Torrance, CA)

Of course we have our own festival, but the Surf Guitar 101 convention in Southern California is arguably the best surf music festival in the entire Americas.  Once again, I have the privilege of performing with my group, The Mystery Men?.

Find out more details on Surf Guitar 101.

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Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Delusionaires, El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists, Kitty Rose

Florida's kings of the high sleaze, The Delusionaires, will be once again be taking over Kavarna for a night of drunken debauchery and tomfoolery.  They'll be joined by the raucous El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists and newcomer Kitty Rose, performing some classic style rockabilly.

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Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Blair-Pongracic Band, The Mystery Men?, The Surge!

We will be announcing the 2017 Southern Surf StompFest lineup VERY soon.  But in the meantime, how about an unbelievable historic event announcement?!

We are proud to host The Blair-Pongracic Band on their first stop of their east coast tour this summer.  The group features two of the biggest names in surf music, John Blair of Jon and the Nightriders fame as well as surf music historian and Ivan Pongracic of The Madeira and The Space Cossacks.  The lineup also includes Dane Carter (also of The Madeira) on drums and Jeremy DeHart (of the Aqualads) on bass.



Supporting The Blair-Pongracic Band will be Atlanta's masked enigmas The Mystery Men? and local surf legends The Surge!.

Find the Facebook event page here.

News and April show announcement

It is with deep regrets that I inform you I will no longer be hosting monthly Southern Surf Stomps. It has been an incredible three years(!) and an honor and privilege to work with so many wonderful and talented people. I've made some lifelong friends in the process from all over the country and found a new home at Kavarna. I'm incredibly proud of all the things we've accomplished; hosting 50 surf and instrumental groups in 4 cities across 3 states, with two acts whose members have been nominated for Grammys!

With all of that said, we are far from done. We will still be doing shows such as April 21st's with Jeffrey Butzer's The Compartmentalizationalists, Genki Genki Panic, In Snow, and Nikki Speake (Midnight Larks). If your group would like to perform, please don't hesitate to contact me as we will still be holding shows at Kavarna and elsewhere.

First Chattanooga Surf Stomp!

Surf's up in Tennessee for the very first ever Chattanooga Surf Stomp with spooky surfabilly from Indiana's The Katatonics, the triple surf guitar barrage of Atlanta's The Mystery Men?, and local noisy surf outfit Genki Genki Panic.



Here's the Facebook event page.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Gemini 13, Forbidden Waves, The 19 Hands

Forbidden Waves are making their way back to Atlanta (by way of Athens, GA) with new album in tow!  Joining them will be regulars Gemini 13 and newcomers The 19 Hands, with their brand of snotty garage-punk.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Liz Brasher, The Fugitives, Rad-isaurus Rex

We're changing it up this go around with just one instro/surf group, The Fugitives (featuring Nicole of The Wave Slaves), and two surf-leaning turf groups.  Liz Brasher is an artist which deserves your attention.  Now normally singer-songwriter is a term that turns me right off but Liz is different, channeling 60's RnB fused with guitar awash in reverb and backed by a phenomenal combo.  The Fugitives are back with guest drummer Nicole Edge of The Wave Slaves.  The trio will be doing mostly standards in their aggressive style with David Northrip's sped-up-tape guitar playing.  Rounding out the bill are surfy, garage punkers Rad-isaurus Rex who did a show for us at the Star Bar a while back and are just a ton of fun.





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Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Buckrabbits, Racket Squad, Two Sisters

We're kicking off the new year with three new groups to the Stomp!  Montgomery, Alabama's The Buckrabbits are an instrumental surf punk trio heavily influenced by the likes of Link Wray and the Ramones.  You may have caught them at the Clarkston Surf Fest almost ten years ago(!) in 2008.  Making their debut, Racket Squad features members of The Surge! and I'm told will perform instrumentals which predate the surf genre, where tape delay was used in lieu of spring reverb as it had not yet been invented.  Maestro Eddie Katcher takes the helm so in my eyes the group can do no wrong and we're sure to be treated to another master class.  Two Sisters will provide the 'turf' portion of the evening with female fronted pop music in the vein of Neko Case and Camera Obscura.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights

We're proud to bring this performance of two classic holiday albums for a third year.  The Knights have also prepared an additional set with an hours worth of Christmas tunes from the likes of Buck Owens, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the Ramones, and so much more!

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Mystery Men?, The Flying Faders, Subatomics

The Mystery Men?'s first Stomp in over 2 years!  Joining them are Maryland's The Flying Faders, whose "No Sweat" LP is among our favorite instrumental/surf records of the past decade or so.  Rising from the ashes of now defunct Bruce Joyner and Atomic Clock, Subatomics make their Southern Surf Stomp! debut.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Zarinah & the Zaratans, The WheelKnockers, Forbidden Waves

The Zaratans return to the Southern Surf Stomp! with a singer (gasp) to perform for you some swingin' 60's surf and pop music.  Also returning are The Wheel Knockers, with their twangy indie-rock.  You may have seen their front man Daniel McNeill aka Jet Powers on the mic as our emcee for this past weekend's festival.  We're happy to welcome newcomers Forbidden Waves, whom I caught for the first time in Athens last Sunday and they are super fun, loud, and incorporate everything from rockabilly to psychedelic stoner-rock into their instrumentals.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Insect Surfers / Forbidden Waves at The World Famous (Athens, GA) 9/18

After StompFest, the Insect Surfers will be heading to Athens on Sunday, September 18th to perform at The World Famous with locals Forbidden Waves.

All ages welcome and cover is only $3!  Here's the link to the Facebook event page.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Messer Chups, Genki Genki Panic, Biggie Rats

It is with great privilege that I announce our very first international show with St. Petersburg, Russia's Messer Chups!  This will be our third show featuring performers from this year's Surf Guitar 101 convention.  Joining them will be Chattanooga's premier luchador horror surf combo, Genki Genki Panic and Atlanta's own Biggie Rats, performing covers you actually want to hear from the punk and garage greats.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Space Cossacks, The Mystery Men?, The Penetrators

flyer courtesy of Jamie Galatas

We're beyond thrilled to be hosting one of THE greatest instrumental surf groups of all time, The Space Cossacks, at the Star Bar on July 30th for one of only two East coast dates, as they warm up to play this year's Surf Guitar 101 convention.  For this special appearance they will be joined by The Mystery Men? and The Penetrators T.R.I.B.U.T.E.

Video by Drew Mobley