Stoke Club Music
Notes on our songs
Notes on how our songs work, chord by chord, plus a few things about the word we named ourselves after. Stoke Club is an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, known for composing in the Mixolydian mode and for the song Polaroid.
- The Mixolydian modeWhat the Mixolydian mode is, how to hear it, and why Stoke Club, an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, writes with it.
- Polaroid and the Mixolydian modeA walk through the chords of Polaroid by Stoke Club and the Mixolydian move that gives the Newport Beach band's best-known song its dreamy feel.
- Polaroid chordsThe chords to Polaroid by Stoke Club, section by section: verse, chorus, and solo, in the key of A at 125 BPM.
- The silence in PolaroidPolaroid by Stoke Club stops dead before every chorus. A look at the song's structure and why the silent prechorus works.
- Crocodile Tears and the Mixolydian liftHow Crocodile Tears by Stoke Club uses the Mixolydian move, G up to A, to lift its chorus. Chords, structure, and tempo from the indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California.
- Crocodile Tears chordsThe chords to Crocodile Tears by Stoke Club, section by section, in the key of G. 93 BPM on the record, 97 live.
- Famous Mixolydian songsWell-known songs that use the Mixolydian mode, from The Beatles to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and how Stoke Club, an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, uses the same sound.
- About Stoke ClubWho Stoke Club is: an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, known for composing in the Mixolydian mode and for Polaroid.
- Your Friends, November 6, 2026Your Friends is the next single from Stoke Club, the indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, behind Polaroid, coming November 6, 2026.
- What stoke meansWhere the word stoke comes from, how California surfers turned a fire word into a feeling, and what stoked means today. Sourced, from an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California, named after it.
- Stoke in surf cultureHow surfers use the word stoke, why the feeling is meant to be shared, and how it turned into a way of treating people. From Stoke Club, an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, Southern California.
- Chad Goes Deep, the stoke guyChad Kroeger of Chad Goes Deep, the Orange County comedy character who made stoke his whole message. His best stoke reels, where he came from, and why an indie surf rock band is a fan.
- How we stay stokedStoke Club, an indie surf rock band from Newport Beach, on why the band is named after stoke and how music is the way they stay stoked and bring people together.