The Tourmaliners, out of PB, play Friday at the Tiki Oasis fest. Their new single, “El Gato,” dropped July 19 and an album is ...

Surf rock’s heyday was back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, though it has seen a few resurgences here and there through the years. There were quite a few bands and musicians who made music in the ...

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 ...

On paper, The Beach Boys seem like little more than a blithe surf band, bottling up the sunshine of the West Coast for the masses. Many bands of their era fell into this category, but The Beach Boys ...

Santa Cruz is of course no stranger to surfing and surf culture. Naturally, surf music is a big part of that. Jeff “Stretch” Riedle, the drummer and leader of local outfit The New Shockwaves, brings ...

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 ...

Sixty-three years ago this week, a song about a place that never existed put surf music at the top of the charts for the first time. On the Billboard Hot 100 dated July 20, 1963, Jan & Dean's "Surf ...