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 ...

Long before The Beach Boys made “Surfin’ USA” a 1960s national anthem and helped the surf music genre earn its own category in record stores, surfing music was riding the waves in its native Hawaii.

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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 ...

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 ...

One of the things that defined surf rocker Dick Dale’s music, career and his life was that he never held anything back. It was true of his quest for a thundering sound that could replicate the ...

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.

Ed Garner, a local Southern California surfer who found a home alongside the likes of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in several of the popular beach party movies of the 1960s, has died. He was ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Long before the Beach Boys made "Surfin' USA" a 1960s national anthem and helped the surf music genre earn its own category in record stores, surfing music was riding the ...

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.