The Vandelles
The Vandelles are rock n’ roll noir at its finest. Their songs are the perfect soundtrack to rain-slicked city streets at night, and the lust, betrayal and violence that filters through them. The band thrives on layers of fuzz and a wall of reverb-laden guitar noise, and they also harbor a penchant for 60s garage pop melody and surf rock riffs. Those expecting the Vandelles to sound like their Brooklyn contemporaries Vivian Girls or Crystal Stilts would be wrong—they channel a dirtier, scuzzier aesthetic more on par with the Cramps, Suicide, X, or even Link Wray.
Plantagenet 3
Plantagenet 3 describe themselves as "a misguided combination of Spaghetti Western soundtracks, surf guitar and minimalist post-rock". Initially the solo project of Richard Lanyon, they are now an instrumental 3-piece, with Richard on guitar, Staz (of the band BITCHES) on drums and Tasha V on bass. They are based in London, UK. Plantagenet 3's debut single was released in June 2010, and their first album is due to be released in May 2011. The band's website can be found at http://www.jitter.co.uk/plantagenet3/.
Bill Davro
Bill Davro are an alternative pop band from Warrington, England. They released a single 'And Even Though' in 2009 and their self titled debut EP was released on the 4th of April 2011.
The Phantoms
There is more than one band called The Phantoms: 1. 60s surf rock band. 2. The Phantoms is a ska group from Oslo, Norway formed in 1996. The first line-up included Leo Fossen from the legendary norwegian hip-hop act B.O.L.T. Warhead on vocals. They released a 7" in 1996 and a 10" in 1998 and a full-length CD in 2006. http://www.thephantoms.no/ 3. The Phantoms were a slovak bigbeat band founded by singer and actor Marián Slovák, Juraj Esperej
Surfin' Lungs
These mental surfers are not playing uncooked, conventional surf music, but, to keep it short, a mixture of the best punk and new wave energy plus more traditional surf. That thing that is usually called power pop, with pop, catchy songs played with energy, to which the Lungs add typical surf music elements, like the sound of the guitars, or the vocal arrangements, or, above all, the melodies. They got together at Bracknell, an inner village about 40 kms. from London, at the start of the '80s. Since then, they've been releasing records on different labels.
Dennis Hopper Choppers
Dennis Hopper Choppers is Ben Nicholls, a one-man-band, simultaneously playing guitar, bass drum, high hat, organ bass pedals, vox-organ and a 1969 Fender Dual Showman amplifier originally designed for Dick Dale which he said is ‘probably the loudest thing I’d ever heard.’ This coming from a man who played bass in the Silverjets and Menlo Park. His debut, self-released album, Chop is 13 tracks of high-plains-via-East-London fretboard wrangling and heartfelt rockabilly stomp while his rich and astonishingly versatile baritone gives the album it’s soaring range.
Emptifish
Emptifish 1983 - 1987 - By Nick Beat. I'd heard about 'Emptifish' while running an illegal drinking den 'The Trash Cavern Nightclub' in Waverly Road, Southsea. These guys were somehow too hot for the regular concertgoer and I decided to keep a distance from the craziness of their antics. As time progressed the band built up such a strong following including many young and attractive girls, 700-800 turning up at venues that held only 200-300 that eventually they became the talk of the South Coast with their musical hybrid of surf/punk and early "Beatles"...
Vinnie & The Stars
"Vinnie has a distinictively original vocal style, the production is raw, and i'm feeling it" G Love (G Love & Special Sauce) Bounding are Leeds' newest and finest Blues-Hop funksters. Led by the charismatic Craig 'Vinnie' Whitehead and backed by The Stars, a group of local faces all with their own blossoming musical careers going on in one way or another aside from this quirky quintet! Sascha Boehm - No-Title Magazine