The list of who we're NOT influenced by is WAY, WAY shorter!!!
Sounds Like
Los Straitjackets, The Black Widows, Slacktone, Pollo Del Mar, Agent Orange, Powerflex 5, The Lava Rats, Secret Samurai, Chingon, Your Mom, and a host of other bands you've never heard of.
***We don't care about credibility, because we are incredible***
CHUM is not your dad's surf music. No pretty harmonies, no old ladies from The Valley, no matching suits/hawaiian shirts... Guitar, bass, drums, reverb, a bit of distortion, some attitude, and a suitcase full of bad jokes. CHUM is about a good time fueled by pints of the good stuff (insert your favorite beer here, or use Guinness as a reliable default.)
CHUM hails from L.A.s South Bay. Yeah, the same area that brought you Dewey Weber, The Belairs, The Beach Boys, Black Flag, and Pennywise.
Surf Music by surfers, for surfers... For those who know what a mouth full of salt water tastes like, the smell of a wetsuit that's been in your trunk a bit too long, and a crotch full of sand.
I believe you are a tad mistaken in your assessment but that being said, Gosh darn it. By the end of the game last night, most of the people in the near empty stands were wearing blue.
Voodoo Court (VC) has just released three new songs in advance of their first CD release since 2002. Be the first on your block to listen to the rockabilly style vocal “Gitmo a Go Go”, as VC casts off their traditional American surf roots to ride the crest of the new American tradition of waterboarding. Listen in glee to the Beach Boy style vocal of “Route 69” as VC takes you down a bumpy beach road of frayed bikini tops and cherry flavored Pez. And for those of you longing for the days of your youth, when you listened to instrumental surf while roasting chestnuts in front of the fireplace with Grandma, you can recapture those memories while listening to “Crossing the Border”, a song so profound, that INS officials have asked for the rights to use it as their theme song.
These songs are now available for online download on iTunes, http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/voodoocourt , and other places where music that does not exist in the physical world are sold.
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