Despite all of the gloom n’ doom talk about the economy this year, the summer of 2009 has shaped up to be a great time for new surf music releases. What better way to lift the spirits than put some fun, energetic highly-reverbed sounds on the hi-fi! While we’ve had a quiet summer here at Double Crown with new releases, lots of bands and labels have picked up the slack with some great new releases – some of which are in our on-line catalog, and some will be added shortly.

The Verbtones have just released their debut full-length CD, Rock Me Out!, 11 excellent tunes all wrapped up in a Ventures-influenced album cover.

Achtung Rakete, a German surf/instro combo, have delivered a great debut disc (self-titled) with some of my favorite cover art ever.

The Nematoads have just come out with their latest disc, called Spy Car Mechanic, on Deep Eddy Records.

Of course, the summer was kicked off with two major, blockbuster releases (which hopefully many of you already have) – Los Straitjackets‘ Further Adventures Of Los Straitjackets, and Satan’s Pilgrims‘ Psychsploitation (order from Double Crown).