LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jan Berry, a member of the duo Jan & Dean that had the 1960s surf-music hits ``Deadman’s Curve’’ and ``The Little Old Lady from Pasadena,’' has died. He was 62. LOS ANGELES (AP) _ ...

The Surfrajettes find audiences wherever they go, even when the gig is nowhere near a beach. “And if there’s a guitar community, they come out,” Surfrajette Shermy Freeman said. “Guitars and surf ...

After Jan & Dean recorded their catchy hit "Surf City," the song topped the charts and allowed listeners around the country to imagine the coolness and relaxation of beach life in the 1960s. Although ...

Did you know there’s such a thing as French surf rock? Like Serge Gainsbourg said, moi non plus. Thankfully, local instrumental band Jim and the Sea Dragons are well-versed in and have imported some ...

When we talk about surf rock and surf pop, this is not just limited to songs about surfing. We are also talking about songs about the beach and cars and girls and the subjects that were popular among ...

Remember Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 extraterrestrial classic “Third Stone From the Sun,” where he promised the people of Earth that they’d never hear surf music again? Jimi didn’t live to see the 1974 ...

Linda Ronstadt is no one-hit wonder. Technically, her old band, The Stone Poneys, would be considered one-hit wonders. The baroque pop folk group only scored one major hit back in the 1960s, and that ...

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.