Now’s a great time to sign up, or renew, a subscription to the Continental Magazine. For just $18.00 you get three issues packed with in depth interviews and music reviews, plus a compilation CD inside the magazine. Issue #19 , out early February, includes huge feature interviews with Los Twang! Marvels and Tremolo Beer Gut, a report from the Las Vegas Shakedown festival, plus tons of music and DVD reviews. There is also a 25 track CD filled with lots of great surf, instro and garage rock tunes.
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We are blowing out our back catalog, with permanent price reductions on many of our popular CD releases. For many of our past releases, you can now get them from us for $4.75 – $9.75 per CD! Lots of great titles have been reduced – check out our list below (click on any of the titles to order from the Double Crown website):
Big Ray & The Futuras – Desolation Planet CD – $9.75
The Footstompin’ Trio – S/T CD – $4.75

Chris Con Carne – …

For a limited time, purchase a CD by The Nematoads and get a download card for another Nematoads album absolutely free! Plus we’ll throw in a Nematoads guitar pick! Here’s how it works – buy The Nematoads “Spy Car Mechanic” CD and get a CD Baby download card for their “Five Guns West” album for free. It works the other way too – buy The Nematoads “Five Guns West” CD and get a CD Baby download card for their “Spy Car Mechanic” album for free. We’ve only got four download …

We’re very excited about the new Mad Fabricators: Volume Six DVD release. This is not just one, but TWO DVD’s packed with cool cars and awesome music. Featured on the soundtrack are four Double Crown bands performing a total of 9 songs. If you’d like to pick up a copy, please visit our shop (remember, you can still take 15% off your purchase through 12/31/11 with coupon code: DEC15).

Thank you for supporting Double Crown Records and The Continental Magazine this year. As you all know, time’s aren’t the greatest in the music biz, but because of all of you, we’ve made it through another year in good shape and are excited to welcome in the new year with the promise of lots of great new surf and instrumental rock releases.
Also, we really appreciate the support we received through the Kickstarter campaign we ran to help support our Brave New Surf CD release. The funds received will allow us …

We don’t have a new holiday release this year, but Los Straitjackets does. They released a new 7″ on YepRoc with “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” b/w “Silver Bells”. You can get the 7″ from the Yep Roc website, or the digital version through Amazon.
You can also pick up the other Los Straitjackets holiday releases through Amazon:
‘Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets (13 songs)
Yuletide Beat (10 songs)

There are just a few days left in our Kickstarter campaign. We’ve passed our initial goal, and will have funds to cover promotional and advertising expenses. Any additional funds raised from this point on will go towards making more CD’s. It looks like we’ll go through the first thousand pretty quickly, but it’ll cost $1500 or so to make another thousand discs.
There are lots of great bonus items available at different donation levels. Any size donation helps though. Help us spread the word about surf music!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1494483445/brave-new-surf

Welcome to Brave New Surf, a showcase for the amazing new sounds of surf music. Here is undeniable evidence that the surf genre is not only still alive but thriving.  The past four years have been extraordinarily fruitful in both the number and the quality of new releases. The best of these new tracks – many compiled for you here – can stand toe to toe with the very best of the 1960s.
The songs on this CD testify to a love affair between the musicians and their music. Surf musicians …

One of our favorite labels, Norton Records, is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a huge blow-out in NYC. When I first started Double Crown Records back in 1996, Norton was one of the first labels I got into when discovering surf and vintage rock n’ roll. Those early Phantom Surfers and Untamed Youth LP’s were played non-stop as I transitioned from grunge to surf rock, and I soon fell in with a group of people that appreciated the sound that Norton was delivering.
Sadly, I won’t be in New York for …

The Takeoffs are a fairly new surf band based in beautiful Hawaii. They have a traditional, reverb drenched sound, and have delivered a 14 track CD filled with covers of surf classics, as well as a whole bunch of great new songs. You can find out more about this great band, and listen to songs from the CD, on their mySpace page.
You can win a copy of their CD by answering the following question: How many islands make up the state of Hawaii? Send your answer in to us via …