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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...

In the summer of 1962, 16-year-old Tommy Nunes and his group The Sentinals toured the country in a station wagon, promoting Nunes’ instrumental song “Latin’ia.” Meanwhile, members of The Impacts, ...

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 ...

The story goes that when The Beatles landed stateside in 1964, they killed surf music. But one lone surf act escaped Americans’ selective amnesia of what they had been spinning just months before: ...