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Bleeding knees club

Bleeding Knees Club are an emerging indie/punk band from the Gold Coast, Australia. They are a duo comprised of Alex Wall on drums and vocals, and Jordan Malane on guitar. Their influences include Wavves, The Black Lips and Ty Seagal.
Genre: Thrash Pash Gash Rash
Hometown: Overies
Record Label: eww

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Long Tall Texans

The Long Tall Texans are a psychobilly/rockabilly band from Brighton, UK. The current line-up is: Mark (vocals/slap bass), Theo (drums), Garry (guitar) and Brother Matthew (guitar). Roy Williams of Nervous Records remembers well when our heroes were trying to get signed, in typical fuzzy rockabilly folklore style the details are just that, fuzzy, but he does recall a piss-up of monumental proportions at a gig downstairs at the Clarendon organised by a woman unknown who promised free booze for interested parties.

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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.

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The Fleshtones

Often tagged as garage-rock revivalists, the Fleshtones mix the fuzz-guitar and Farfisa organ sounds of that genre with rockabilly, '50s and '60s R&B, and surf into a potent retro stew the group likes to call "Super Rock." The group formed in 1976 in Queens with vocalist/keyboardist Peter Zaremba, guitarist Keith Streng, bassist Jan Marek Pukulski, and drummer Bill Milhizer and aimed to return rock and roll to the simplicity and unself-consciousness of the '50s and early-'60s. (The group was often joined on-stage and in the studio by sax player Gordon Spaeth, who passed on in 2005.

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The Big Face And The Boogie Woogie Boogie Board Boys

The Big Face and the Boogie Woogie Boogie Board Boys were a successful surf group from 1963, Selling their souls for gnarly boards and bodacious twangy riffs they were king of the waves and charmers of the babes. Unfortunately their god like status in the surf world didn't save them from what can only be described as the WORST surf related accident in history leaving all the members near death and washed out to sea. The public accepted that The boys had tragically lost their lives to the big blue.

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The Pyramids

The Pyramids are (among other):
1. An american free jazz orchestra.
2. A reggae group.
3. One of the most classic instrumental surf combos
4. The side project of S. Windett (vocals/guitar) and Arp (drums) from Archie Bronson Outfit.
5. An independent artist from Helsinki, Finland

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Tijuana Bibles

o.k. the bibles are a local toronto band that has bin playin round town for some time now...6yrs - 10yrs i'd say...they are in a nut shell fuckin briliant surf-punk, hot rob type of band..some of their trax are very similar to the ever famous Barry Adamson... moody and sultry ... great band to see in person/live but lose nothing recored either
if you haven't listen to them...check'em out

Tijuana Bibles on Last.fm.

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The Barracudas

This London-based Anglo-Canadian band, whose members include Jeremy Gluck (vocals), Robin Wills (guitar), David Buckley (bass), and Nick Turner (drums), was formed in 1979 and scored a U.K. chart hit in 1980 with the neo-surf song "Summer Fun." Turner and Buckley left after the release of the first album Drop Out With the Barracudas (1981) and were replaced by Jim Dickson and Terry Smith. Chris Wilson also joined on guitar.

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