Every year around August, surfing hits the lifestyle pages. It’s less known, that Surfing spawned it’s own raunchy soundtrack in the 1950’s. At its best, it’s ‘Punk’ rock before its time. A genre dominated by real life beach bums and exploitation artists could only produce extreme records - Both in a good and in a bad way. The rush only lasted from roughly 1959 to 1963. After that nobody wanted to know. Apart from The Ramones and Quentin Tarantino. I know, surfing is not actually great in Augu
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