We are officially off for the US Independence Day holiday, and are choosing to celebrate it with one of the great American inventions, the surf instrumental. Dating back to the late 1950s and the work of Dick Dale and the Deltones, the surf instrumental remains an always-welcome addition to any band’s repertoire. Here a hidden gem, from the very early (circa 1981) The Bangles (then called “The Bangs“), the appropriately titled “Bitchen Summer”. See you next week.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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