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 ...

Few surf rock bands have a discography as huge as The Challengers. This surf rock outfit is best known for the highly influential record Surfbeat from 1963. They were quite popular at the time; they ...

Just because a band sings “Surfing U.S.A.” and “California Girls” doesn’t mean it’s a surf band. Surf music has a long history, encompassing sounds as diverse as Dick Dale’s “Miserlou” and surf-punk ...

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 ...

I don’t exactly remember when it was that Jimi Hendrix boldly decreed, “You’ll never hear surf music again.” I am guessing it was the late 1960s, but in any case, the dude was wrong. It’s alive and ...

The Blue Hawaiians from Los Angeles were there, as were Frankie & the Pool Boys from San Francisco and Fascinating Creatures of the Deep from Santa Cruz. The Black Flamingos came in from New Jersey as ...

Beginning this Sunday, the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum will crowd the corner of Olive Avenue and 5th Street with a heavy dose of surf culture. The museum and its volunteers are ...