With the recent passing of Brian Wilson, there's been a renewed interest in the surfrockmusic of The Beach Boys. In the band's early years, they became the best and most successful artists playing ...

There’s great instrumental surf-rock bands everywhere, many coming from landlocked states, some even formed and reared in The Great White North, as north of the border music isn’t only Rush ...

Don Wilson of The Ventures was a pioneering surf-rock guitarist. And his work could teach a thing or two to rhythm guitarists today.

The focus is surf music, an atmospheric style of guitar rock made famous in the early ’60s but soon washed out of popularity by changing tides of opinion.

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… ...

His music carried on a rebellious tradition of instrumental rock but with a darker edge than surf rock generally had.

We played instrumental surf stuff. After many distractions and not going the direction I wanted to go, I decided in 1995 I wanted to pursue that—new songs, streamlined, hard-hitting music.

Surf music was born in 1960. Its twangy instrumentals can be traced through many artists from The Shadows and Fleetwood Mac to Australia’s The Sunnyboys and The Cruel Sea.

Dick Dale, universally hailed as the king of the 1960s surf guitar sound that heavily influenced the development of rock 'n' roll guitar — and of rock 'n' roll guitars themselves — has died at ...

Rhythm guitarist Don Wilson, co-founder of surf music staple the Ventures, has died at age 88, his family said Saturday.