You may have heard Surf Curse and not even realized it. The song you might've heard is "Freaks," from the group's 2013 lo-fi surf rock debut album, Buds. No, the tune by the Los Angeles-by-way-of-Reno ...

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 ...

The Milwaukee band’s latest album is based on their own version of “surf rock.” ...

Winter is the ideal season for listening to black metal, but if you're in need of a beach vacation and still want to retain your "trve kvlt" status, these surf rock interpretations of classic black ...

Sigmund Freud describes (and refutes) oceanic feeling as the potential root of religion – the instinctive notion that we as people are connected to the world around us – and few people are more ...

Dick Dale, the king of surf rock who influenced a generation of guitarists and set the tone for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, passed away March 16. He was 81 years old. Dusty Watson, a drummer who ...

If you were born around 1950, you would have spent your teenage years watching albums like “Rubber Soul,” “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Something Else,” “Pet Sounds,” “Aftermath,” “Revolver,” “Blonde on ...

It was the mid-1960s and the rapid-fire sounds Dick Dale was pulling out of his gold-painted Fender Stratocaster had already reshaped popular music. In the space of a few short years, the Boston-born, ...

Dick Dale, the surf-rock guitar innovator whose slinky playing in '60s beach classics such as "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" inspired a generation of sun-seeking guitarists, has died at the age of ...

Dick Dale died on Saturday after suffering from many health issues for several years, according to reports Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” whose biggest hit served as the opening song for ...

Psychedelic surf rock is not something Westerners generally associate with Cambodia. If we think about Cambodia at all, we might recall the murderous tyrant Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge in ...

Success has hardly gone to the heads of the San Diego rock band Switchfoot, as they showed Saturday, June 29, at their 15th annual Bro-Am surf and music festival at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. The ...