Bombón’s Angela Ramos, 25, went to the flea market this morning to prepare for tour. She was looking for sunglasses. She wound up with a Ventures record. That seems like the way the guitarist for a girl surf band from San Pedro, Calif., should spend her Sunday.

Not that I’m telling her what to do.

Ramos, who along with the band will play The Independent on Friday, July 16, has never been on tour before, she’s never been interviewed, she’s never put out a record (“Las Chicas del Bombón" comes out four days before they play The Independent). But she’s dealt with the stigma of being a cute girl in a band of cute girls plenty of times.

“People will come up and say ‘wow, I really wasn’t expecting that. You actually know how to play your instruments,’” says Ramos, a chemistry major at Cal State Los Angeles. “We try to take it as something positive, but it’s also negative, because everyone automatically thinks ‘I wonder how cute they’ll sound’ instead of ‘I wonder what kind of music they’ll play.’”

For those that do wonder what style?

“I just tell them surf-punk,” she says. “I started writing Ventures-style songs and just played them by myself. I’ve always been into surf music, but never found the right people to play it with.”

That changed last year after a couple of girls crashed on the floor of the punk house where she used to live (before the punk house where they now all live).

“I started jamming out with Jerico (Campbell) cause she played the drums and then Paloma (Banuelos) wanted to learn something so she picked up the bass pretty quickly,” Ramos says. “All of a sudden, it just started.”

And it works; Ramos’ favorite song “La Playa” – Spanish for “the beach” – sounds as beachy as a surfboard smells, or as beachy as she imagines it might smell.

“People ask us if we surf,” she laughs. “No, none of us surf. If you can’t surf, play in a surf band. I’m ashamed, but only one of the Beach Boys surfed, or kind of surfed. That’s what I heard.”

For more on the band, visit myspace.com/bombonhoorah.