Surf Punk Bands

[William]

I know that surf music doesn't generally have vocals, but the few surf punk bands I've heard seem to. I just wanted to see if anyone knows of any other surfpunk bands to check out....other than agent orange of course!:)

[Kill, Baby...Kill!]

Kill,Baby...Kill! - Anniston, AL www.reverbnation.com/killbabykillal

Daikaiju - Huntsville, AL www.daikaiju.net

Necronomikids - Tuscaloosa, AL

Alder Kings - Chicago

Guantanamo Baywatch - Portland, OR

The Icepicks - Maine

Coffin Daggers - NY

El Fossil - Atlanta, GA

The Summer Creeps - Roswell, GA

Team Void - Dayton, OH

I could honestly keep going all day with this list. The genre is blowing up, nation wide.

[John Battles]

Yeah , The Defoliants were from Chicago. Their Guitar player owns a bar , now , Club Foot.

I never considered 'em Surf - oriented , myself , but , i never heard their studio stuff. Whenever I saw them live,they seemed kinda New Wavish , influenced by Devo and the like. Once , I saw them do "Pipeline" and "Penetration" , but , otherwise , it was all vocal and little Surf influence to be detected , though I know they were huge fans of it.
 
William said:

There's a cool band called the Defoliants I recently came across. I guess I'd give 'em the surf-punk tag. check out the 'hang ten' e.p. , if you can find it;) I guess it's a hard genre (if it really is one) to determine. I suppose it would differ on people's idea of "surf" and "punk" music...

[John Battles]

Alder Kings , I've never heard of , but , there's always been a Surf scene in The Chicago Suburbs , AFTER THE BIG SURF SCARE OF '95-'97 ENDED.

The modern Surf/Instrumental scene in Chicago begins and ends with The Greaseballs. They could not be touched. They were only around from about '86 TO '90 , BUT HAVE RECORDED AND PERFORMED , SPORADICALLY , SINCE.   Bill Bulinski , their Lead Guitarist , was the original axeman with The Electras (As in "Dirty Old Man" and "Action Woman".).

Spies Who Surf were The Greaseballs' friendly rivals. In terms of popularity , they won. But , they went from being an MTV-ish sounding take on Surf to a Jazz - oriented , not so Surf-sounding Instrumental Rock. I saw several of the original band members perform "The Ventures in Space" a few years back , tho' , and they were ON FIRE !!!
 

The Defoliants were going on at the same time , but , as I noted , earlier ,
whenever I saw them , they were mostly New Wavish vocal - Rock , WITH THE OCCASIONAL SURF iNSTRUMENTAL. OBVIOUSLY , THEY WERE INFLUENCED BY AGENT ORANGE (CHECK THEIR NAME.) , BUT, EVEN THEY STEPPED UP TO THE MIKE , SOMETIMES......

 Kill, Baby...Kill! said:

Kill,Baby...Kill! - Anniston, AL www.reverbnation.com/killbabykillal

Daikaiju - Huntsville, AL www.daikaiju.net

Necronomikids - Tuscaloosa, AL

Alder Kings - Chicago

Guantanamo Baywatch - Portland, OR

The Icepicks - Maine

Coffin Daggers - NY

El Fossil - Atlanta, GA

The Summer Creeps - Roswell, GA

Team Void - Dayton, OH

I could honestly keep going all day with this list. The genre is blowing up, nation wide.