"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, ...

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.

There's almost always a few Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees each day who are so psyched to stake out a spot for the headliner that they arrive when gates open and sprint across Zilker Park ...

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, ...

Just about everybody knows “Pipeline” and “Wipe Out,” those epochal instrumentals that became the anthems of surfing — and cool — in the early ’60s. But it wasn’t until I picked up a couple of cheap ...

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You probably don’t know Brian Carman’s name today, if ever you did. But odds are good that you do know his most famous riff, that rapid-fire burst of sound that flew from Carman’s fingers and the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

Get out your bikinis and swim shorts, mix up some summery drinks, and get ready to have your own beach party, even if you live in a landlocked city, have never been near a surfboard, and there's snow ...

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 83. *No ...