Down By The Roller-Coaster

Surf Music. The Beach Boys and Dick Dale both represent the two major forms: vocal surf pop and instrumental surf rock. The Drums have been described as the new era of surf music, which also includes Surfer Blood. They are based in Brooklyn, but are currently touring in Europe. Two of the band members, Jonathon Pierce and Jacob Graham, were childhood friends. They first formed an electro-pop group called Goat Explosion. But after several years, the two separated and went on to form other bands. They eventually grew tired of electro-pop and decided to work together again, switching to indie surf music.

The New York Times has written "Pop without apology…It’s an old, limited vocabulary, but the Drums know its every nuance."