When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns On June 11, 2025, we lost Brian Wilson. He was 82, so the news wasn ...

When it comes to music & surfing, he may very well be America's foremost scholar. His book, The Ocean Will Have Us All: Surf ...

Dick Dale wanted to play the guitar to mimic how he felt when he went surfing. That’s how Peter Townend — as Dale was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2011 — described the music that was a ...

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 ...

Think surf and, if you’re anything like us, your mind turns to things like the movie Point Break: handsome, windswept dudes with toned torsos and very blond hair; flip-flops in winter; everything ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

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Rhythm guitarist Don Wilson, co-founder of surf music staple the Ventures, has died at age 88, his family said Saturday. He passed peacefully of natural causes in the early morning with his four adult ...

Though 28 bands will stuff the Cat’s Cradle’s small Back Room this weekend, there won’t be a lead singer in sight. But don’t expect string quartets or laptop lords. The focus is surf music, an ...