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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Surf rock has long been the soundtrack of Southern California, and rightfully so. After all, it was there in the early 1960s that Dick Dale and the Del-Tones introduced the groovy, spring-reverbed ...