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My picks for the best aggressive surf records of 2025.

https://stormsurgeofreverb.com/content/gremmy-awards-2025-best-rad-instro-record

The Gremmy Awards 2025: Best "Rad" Instro Record

The reason that I subdivide the Gremmy Awards into so many different categories is because reverbed instrumental guitar music can be and always has been so many different things. "Latin'ia" has a different appeal to it than "Bombora". I often refer to this category as the music with more of a punk and metal influence "added into it", but isn't that circular? You're not going to find much music with the same dark intensity as "Misirlou" before it, and if you ask me you won't find a whole lot of that intensity for a while after! This is not some sort of infusion to weaponize surf music, it's following surf music further down a path that it started.

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Storm Surge of Reverb 1d ago

Surf music is gonna have a huge revival really soon, so long as a few million people listen to this show
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Storm Surge of Reverb 6d ago

My favorite modern instrumental surf records of 2025! Lots of variety here.

https://stormsurgeofreverb.com/content/gremmy-awards-2025-best-modern-surf-record

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Gremmy Awards 2025: Best Modern Surf Record

Modern surf is always a large category because most of us by default are modern people doing modern things, creating modern works. So it's always going to be a big category. And its not really something you can define: it's not traditional surf, it's not too aggressive, but it's still surf, and that amorphousness also means that there's a lot of things that you could call "modern surf". So what I'm getting at here is hoo boy, do I have a lot of things on here. And when I have this many things you might think "well did anything not make the cut? Absolutely, there were a lot of good and even great surf records not on this list, a few that felt like snubs, and the crazy thing is I wanted to cut more. But the thing is, I couldn't! I felt like nearly all of these in their own way had a claim for the top spot. And especially interesting, they all brough something unique to the table, not even an opportunity for one to "cancel another out". And I guess that's a good problem to have. So here are TWELVE very interesting and excellently crafted surf records, and one that after a LOT of thought, I decided I liked the most. In no specific order except for the last one.

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Storm Surge of Reverb Mar 9

HANGIN TEN ON BROKEN WATER MAINS
Oh, by the way, we're back to the GREMMY AWARDS. For the whole second hour!
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Storm Surge of Reverb Mar 2

MARATHON SHOWDOWNWILL HEROES SAVE US? OR WILL IT TAKE AN ALIEN INVASION TO SET THINGS RIGHT?
YOU DECIDE.
Make a donation to WTUL during STORM SURGE OF REVERB.
Call (504) 865 5885 and tell me whether your vote was for HEROES or ALIENS
And I'll either play HEROIC SURF MUSIC or SCI-FI ALIEN SURF MUSIC
4-6pm CST
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Storm Surge of Reverb Feb 23

SONGS SHOT WITH A SURF TRANSMOGRIFIER
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Hunter King Feb 18

This documentary about #surfmusic that took forever to make (the director died before he completed it) is now up for free on Youtube! It's a nice run-down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjpL8sqCpFM

How Did Surf Music Influence An Entire Generation?

YouTube

Storm Surge of Reverb Feb 16

PARTY PARTY PARTY
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Storm Surge of Reverb Feb 12

A few misc. updates from this week and a slew of micro-reviews

https://www.stormsurgeofreverb.com/content/storm-surge-splash-4-carnival-time

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Storm Surge Splash 4: Carnival Time!

Hello surf cadets I skipped a week of this because... well there wasn't much to write about. But now there is! Yesterday I posted the Best Trad Surf Gremmy for 2025. I might have played a little fast and loose as to what "trad" means, but the modern surf category was looking pretty bloated so I shifted some things around.

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Storm Surge of Reverb Feb 11

My favorite traditional #surfmusic records of 2025

https://www.stormsurgeofreverb.com/content/gremmy-awards-2025-best-traditional-surf-record

Gremmy Awards 2025: Best Traditional Surf Record

60's surf music is magical, and while countless people have modified it and expanded it, nobody has ever replaced it. For some, it's a guiding light to strive towards. I think that was the idea behind these albums, at least to some extent.

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