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The fabulous first issue of Colorado Instrumental Fanzine is now available!!

Issue number one features in-depth interviews with:
The Cosmic Wrays (WA)
The Evanstones (WA)
King of Hawaii (WA)
Surfer Joe (Italy)
Surf Zombies (IA)
The Woodhavens (WA)

In addition to the six interviews, the zine is filled with tons of live photographs and detailed music reviews for your reading pleasure.

Weighing in at a hefty 36 pages, you'll have hours of reading material about some incredibly talented surf/instrumental bands. It's printed on 80lb satin paper with a 100lb satin cover and appropriately sized at 8.5 X 11 (~A4).

Note: For international readers, we are working with distributors and ask for your patience.

If you enjoy serious reading, this is the fanzine for you.

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This is another whopper - 52 pages of interviews, features and reviews, as well as a 25-song CD packed with great surf, garage and instro rock tunes on it!

This issue once again features a spectacular full-color cover designed by the ever-amazing Scott of Hidden Volume Records (he did the CD art too!). In this issue we include interviews with The Bomboras, Les Agamemnonz, The Mortals, The Routes, and Art from MuSick Recordings plus Mel Bergman interviews the director of the "Surf's Up - SFO Museum Exhibit". IN ADDITION there's tons of music, zine and DVD reviews. 52 pages in all - another HUGE issue! You also get a FREE 25-song CD filled with lots of great surf, instro and garage rock tunes - INCLUDING BRAND NEW SONGS BY THE MORTALS, THE HI-TIDE ORCHESTRA, THE CHOLLA, GARAGE SALE AND MORE!!!

TRACKS:
1. Garage Sale - Classical Trash
2. The Atlantics - Bondi James
3. Wave Electric - Shot In The Head
4. Blackball Bandits - The Cursed Island
5. The Hi-Tide Orchestra - Akaw!
6. Frankie & The Poolboys - Moorea Mon Amour
7. Mark Malibu & The Wasagas - Pointbreak 115
8. Lords Of Atlantis - Barbary Corsairs
9. The Mortals - The Black Hand
10. Sys Malakian - Megalodon
11. The Routes - Mongolian Chop
12. The Cholla - Kamelidoscopic Caravan
13. Little Kahuna - Red Pepa
14. Toro Jones - Trailblazer
15. Jim & The Sea Dragons - Lava Lamp Girl
16. Monsters From The Surf - Monster From The Surf
17. The Breakers - Blue Light Run
18. The Surf Hermits - Hang Zen
19. Los Granujas - Samsara
20. The Dirty Licks - Van Cleef
21. The Electric Heaters - Copley Soul (Live)
22. The Starhoppers - StarFlight
23. Guitarmy Of One - I Spy The Prisoner
24. Escape The Tube - The Tube Thief
25. Nuclear Juarez - Misketonic University Fight Song *

(*) - These songs are new, or seeing their physical release for the 1st time on this CD.

CD Mastered by Jonny Browning at Studio Koleman, Surrey BC

Looks like we'll have the new issue a few days early - we should be able to start shipping next Tuesday! Continental Magazine 31 will be released on August 17th. Three issue subscriptions are available now thru the Double Crown website - http://www.doublecrownrecords.com.

Single copy purchases are available starting next week.

We've been busy here at Double Crown HQ, with THREE new releases over the last month - a brand new issue of the Continental Magazine, an anthology CD release by Frankie & The Pool Boys, and the third full-length release by Dutch instrumental combo The Surfaders - all available now at www.doublecrownrecords.com

The Continental Magazine - Issue #30 w/CD

Issue #30 is our latest issue - once again it features a spectacular full-color cover designed by the ever-amazing Scott of Hidden Volume Records (he did the CD art too!). In this issue we include an conversation between Ferenc Dobronyi of Pollo Del Mar (and Frankie & The Pool Boys) and Mark Klebeck of King of Hawaii, plus an exclusive interview with Mort of The Mono Men / Game For Vultures, Mel Bergman with a look on the Fender Showman, and Johnny Bartlett of The Phantom Surfers in our 20 Questions feature. PLUS there's tons of music, zine and DVD reviews. 52 pages in all - another HUGE issue! You also get a FREE 27-song CD filled with lots of great surf, instro and garage rock tunes - INCLUDING BRAND NEW SONGS BY THE PHANTOM SURFERS, POLLO DEL MAR & SECRET AGENT!!!

The Continental Magazine - Issue #30 - CT030 - $7.95 (Order From Double Crown Records)

The Continental Magazine - Three-Issue Subscription Starting With Issue #30 - CONTSUB (Order From Double Crown Records)

Frankie & The Pool Boys - The Wet Season CD (Double Crown)

With the complete selling out of the Frankie and the Pool Boys catalogue, Double Crown Records presents an anthology of songs from their first three albums. Packed with 79+ minutes and 27 songs in total, it also features four new cuts. The track list was chosen largely based on how well the songs were received in a live setting, so the selection really was decided by fans of the band.

All of the Pool Boys’ three albums (the 2008 eponymous first album, 2013’s The Adventures of Cap’n Coconuts, and the Pipeline Magazine Album of the Year for 2018, Spin The Bottle) are well represented. Of course, “Ewa on the Beach” (voted the #3 Surf Revival song by listeners of North Sea Surf Radio) is included, as are the band’s most familiar songs, “The Wet Season,”“Skinny Dippin’,”“Teke Teke Teke” and “Tan Line Fever.”

As the Pool Boys take this moment to look back at thirteen years of recording and touring, they also look forward to new music and touring. A new album is currently being rehearsed with plans for recording and release in early 2022.

Tracks: Moorea Mon Amour - Ewa On The Beach - Skinny Dippin' - Tan Line Fever - Amber Waves - The Wet Season - The Golden State - Magyara - Spin The Bottle - Dreams (Live) - Raise Hell - Tic Toc - The Raven - Prayer Wheel - The Whammy - Summer Cold - Cat Fight - A Man Called Dirt - Seafoam Angels - Organic Matters - Magic River - Finito Bandito - El Valenciano - Teke, Teke, Teke - Poser - Game Of Thrones - No Surf Today

Frankie & The Pool Boys - The Wet Season CD - DCCD89 - $12.75 (Order From Double Crown Records)

The Surfaders - Shaken And Disturbed CD (Double Crown)

The Surfaders are a Dutch surf/instrumental rock combo that yearns to create the soundtracks of B-movies yet to be made, with a cinematic sound they call "Surf-Noir". After winning over fans worldwide with their first two albums, 2021 brings the release of their finest collection of songs yet - Shaken & Disturbed. Twelve dazzling instrumental classics that conjure up images of danger, intrigue and...well shaken cocktails! Guitar fanatics will swoon over the melodies and sounds heard on this disc - a highlight is "Moscow Mule", which the band describes as "So fiery and limey fresh that you may well mistake it for a soda. If you do, expect this cross-bred liquid quadruped to kick you in the head as hard as the Siberian winter is cold. We call it Breznjev’s brain-freeze."

Tracks: Moscow Mule - Death In The Afternoon - Full Moon - Tequila Matador - Henrietta - Sex On The Beach - Alien Secretion - Strawberry Daiquiri - Follow That Black Rabbit - Zombie - Stargazer - Dark & Stormy

The Surfaders - Shaken And Disturbed CD - DCCD88 - $12.75 (Order From Double Crown Records)