Instrumental surf music had a brief reign as a top form of pop music in the early 1960s, until the British invasion knocked it from the charts. But the music still had fans, and when film director ...

There's almost always a few Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees each day who are so psyched to stake out a spot for the headliner that they arrive when gates open and sprint across Zilker Park ...

Dave Wronski builds guitars and plays surf guitar. He doesn't surf, but you'd never know it from listening to his band, Slacktone. Slacktone has been around since 1995? Yeah. The drummer, Dusty Watson ...

There’s no need to catch an actual wave to feel like you’re out in the California surf this month thanks to the return of a festival that celebrates beach music. The 15th annual Surf Guitar 101 ...

Chris Dyas, Mike Savage, and Larry Heinemann are the Ray Corvair Trio, whose surf and spy instrumentals come to Jersey City's Fox & Crow on Saturday, Feb. 4. There's no Ray Corvair in the Ray Corvair ...

Surf music was born in the early 1960s in Southern California. Heavily reverbed guitars gave the music a watery texture and wildly careening rhythms evoked the power and unpredictability of waves.

"You'll never hear surf music again," is a very famous line from "Third Stone From the Sun," from Jimi Hendrix's debut album Are You Experienced (1967). That lyric was taken by many (including myself, ...

After five decades, surf-sound music and Orange County remain synonymous. The classic tunes continue to be performed by oldie surf rock and vocal surf pop bands, much of it now made by middle-aged ...

We don’t have a lot of places to surf in the Valley, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have an instrumental surf rock band. In fact, we’ve had this one for quite a few years. Surfside IV formed in 2006, ...

Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” who formulated the sound and attack of the Southern California-bred instrumental style in the early ‘60s, has died. He was 81. His bassist, Sam Bolle, ...