Links
Updated 2007/09/01
All links worked as of that date, and all comments are strictly unintentional. Sadly, Pollo Del Mar can no longer boast the most complete surf links page. Damn it's hard to keep this thing up to date. If your band isn't here, drop us an email. And won't you please reciprocate our link? Thankyou.
San Francisco Bay Area Hombres
- Ape
- The Aqua Velvets
- Drifting Sand
- The Mach IV
- The Mermen
- The Mermen - archive
- Pyronauts
- Splashback
- Surf Cinema
- The Ultras
- The Woodies
- The Aquamarines
- The Neptunes
- The Skegs
- Lava Rats
Heroes & Legends
- Davie Allan
- Dick Dale
- George Tomsco and The Fireballs
- Link Wray
- The Ventures
- Paul Johnson (The Belaires)
- The Fender IV featuring Randy Holden
- Read a great interview with Randy about the birth of The Fender IV
- Hear the legendary ranting of Drummer and Band leader Buddy Rich.
- Willie Glover of The Pyramids
Essential Pages
- Phil Dirt's Reverb Central
- The Cowabunga FAQ
- Cowabunga Web Ring Home Page A comprehensive world-wide instrumental surf music links collection.
- Instromania Unbelievably comprehensive Garage, Surf and Psych page (in French)
Labels
- Wildebeest Records
- Blood Red Vinyl
- MuSick Recordings
- Dionysus
- Golly Gee Records
- Halakahiki Records
- Double Crown
Web Zines
- Surf Rock Music.com
- Cosmik Debris Webzine
- The Lance Monthly
- Pipeline
- Garage and Beat
- Hang Nine
- Surf Music Russian language site
- Reverb BrazilMocoto's site for Samba surfers
Surfing Destinations and Lifestyle Partners
- Surfer Joe - Italy
- Surfing Airlines - Belgium
- Don Vigeant- Artist extrordinaire.
- John Detrich - Rat fink illustrator
- The Menhune Beach StoreOur favorite Surf shop in Tokyo, Japan. Say hello to owner Kenji Miyajima and tell him that Pollo sent you.
- Dusty Watson is a helluva drummer and a helluva great human.
- Classic Surf Movie Posters Wow, this site is an amazing graphic resource.
- SurmaniaAustralian site run by Xtabay with links to surf MP3s
- The Sonos Handbell Choirhelped us with our version of The Ukranian Carol
- The Surf GalleryLaguna Beach shop featuring surf photography and art.
- Gig PostersA great repository of poster art. Thousands of show posters.
- Gary Mankin is our producer.
- Looking for Surf CoastersCDs?. This is a Japanese exporter.
- Randy's Bamboo RoomScenester Randy Jensen has excellent taste... great photo pages, art, music reviews and more.
- The Lost IsleSanta Cruz arteest Chongolio's Bongo's pad.
- Tiki NewsOtto Von Stroheim is the conscience of Tiki lifestyle.
- Automatic Pilot was Jeremy's band in the early 80's. Meet Roz the Go-Go Dancer
- The Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum
- California Speed Trap Listing - download this before you speed across the Golden state
- Surfrider Foundation
- Bandwidth Speed Tester
Bands we dig...
- The Anacondas
- 9th Wave
- The Bambi Molesters from Croatia
- Les Baronics from Quebec
- Boss Martians
- The Deoras
- El Vez
- Gein And The Graverobbers
- The Insect Surfers
- Los Meltones
- Los Straitjackets
- The Nebulas
- The Penetrators
- The Sandblasters
- Slacktone
- Southern Culture On The Skids
- The Surf Coasters from Japan
- The Surf Coasters - USA page
- Surf Report
- Susan and the Surftones
- The El Caminos from Japan
- Hawaiian Astro Boys from Belgium
- The Detonators
Fan Pages
- Instrumental Rock and Roll Kirk Schutte's great instro page... history and reviews.
- Tsunami Soul Surf A great starting off site.
Clubs
- The Pitcher Housein Hermosa Beach The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco
- Sweetwater Mill Valley in Mill Valley
- Hotel Utah in San Francisco
- Thee Parkside in San Francisco
- 19 Broadway in Fairfax
Tone
- Reverend Guitars
- Fender Guitars
- Fulltone Guitar Effects
- Jerry Jones Guitars
- Voodoo Lab Guitar Effects
- The Jazzmaster and Jaguar Page
- The Vox Showroom
- Web Strings - cheap!
Radio
- Internet Radio Devlar Surf: Two Stations/ Two Different Playlists
- Devlar Surf Session IIt's an online surf radio station on Live365.com for T1/dsl/cable listeners
- Devlar Surf Session II(Editors Pick) Another surf radio station on Live365.com for 56K modems Old Fashioned Radio
- Radio Rumpus Room on KFAI
- KFJC -Former home of "Surf's Up with Phil Dirt" - playlists and audio feed Kopper and Jaimz present The Wayback Machine
- Reverend Willis' excellent table of Surf Music Radio and Web Broadcasters.
- Tsunami Soul on WOBC, Oberlin OH
Surf Music Forums and Listserve
Really, there is only one place to talk about Surf Music these days-- Check out
- SurfGuitar101, for the premier internet forum surf info.
- Cowaunga Surf Music Instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing: Go to the Yahoo Groups page and follow the instructions from there.
