Since Summer officially arrived a few hours ago, what more fitting tribute to the inclinations of baking in the sun, goofing off, staying up late and wearing as little as possible than playing something by The Beach Boys?

Okay, Summer means different things to different people. Those of us on the West Coast don't really have Summer until some time in October, when parts of Los Angeles have been known to burn down every few years. Until then, we weather through June Gloom and days where it barely breaks out of the 70's, unless of course you're in the Valley, where it is casually known as a "suburb of Hell" until December.

But the Beach Boys, at least on the West Coast, have always meant Summer to a certain degree, or at least an idealized version of it. Probably less now than a generation or two ago, when it was mandatory to have at least one Beach Boys album in your collection, and preferably all the singles.

Tonight it's one of the less instantly hummable Beach Boys songs. The Warmth Of The Sun was written, ironically, as a reflection on the Kennedy Assassination (as legend has it ) and goes under the heading of one of the more introspective of Brian Wilson's songs. Nonetheless, like a lot of their music from the early period (all the way up to Pet Sounds), it offers an aspect of a band that cranked out more than Surf tunes and were, in fact, capable of having something relevant to say.

In the meantime, get ready for insanely long days.

Best Coast have only been together since 2009 but already are getting great word of mouth and are kicking off a tour this month with an appearance at the now-legendary Coachella festival on the 15th of April before heading over to Europe where they play Lisbon on the 19th and Madrid on the 20th and a pile of other dates.

Here is a track off their debut album Crazy For You, The End. If you're heading off to Coachella try and catch them. If you can't do that, check out their site and pick up their album.

It's almost Summer anyway. The rate things are going we need all the help we can get.

There's a lot going on south of the border, and it's not all drug wars. There is a very interesting music scene happening in Mexico these past several years with bands popping up all over the place. And, from what I'm able to gather, a rather healthy club scene. Although I understand night-life in Mexico at the moment is a little tenuous.

Telekrimen is one of those bands who embrace a Punk/Surf/Psych ethic with heavy emphasis on Surf. I did a post on them in February and the response was pretty good. In case you missed the last post, Telekrimen have been around since 2005 and judging from the poster, they have a pretty good reputation all around Mexico (and I suspect further south). Tonight's track, El Circo Del Brujo is a new track that's available via their MySpace page. It's an instrumental so you don't have to get all bothered if you don't know the language. But that shouldn't stop you anyway. Notes are notes. And the one's Telekrimen are using are pretty cool.

So if you thought everything musical out of Mexico had something to do with Mariachis or accordions or Ranchero - you'd be really wrong. Way wrong. Totally wrong.

Check them out and come back tomorrow - I think we're going to spend the week sampling some Hecho en Mexico for your mind-melting and head banging pleasure.

(Telekrimen -getting back to basic mayhem and Mexican surf/psych/garage - cool, no?)

Since today was a holiday for a lot of people and tomorrow, being Tuesday, feels more like Monday, I thought it would be a good idea to get into a somewhat turbo-charged mood tonight. Telekrimen are fitting the bill. Telekrimen are one of those completely whacked-out Mexican surf/psych/garage bands that have resurfaced on the club scene South-of-the Border of late. Very raw, very crazy, very hyper - just the way we like it! And according to reports, they have a great following.

This is one of their new tracks, in fact a couple weeks old. Mutantes (I don't think you really need a translation, but Mutants nails it for English translation) is pretty typical of what they're doing.

Like I said, they're doing a lot of club gigs locally, but I don't know if they have plans to do anything across the border. It'd be nice if they did. We can use some crazy right about now.