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 ...

Coastal regions aren’t the only places that can pump out surf bands. There’s great instrumental surf-rock bands everywhere, many coming from landlocked states, some even formed and reared in The Great ...

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, ...

"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, ...

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, ...

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 ...