Instrumental surf music had a brief reign as a top form of pop music in the early 1960s, until the British invasion knocked it from the charts. But the music still had fans, and when film director ...

Chris Dyas, Mike Savage, and Larry Heinemann are the Ray Corvair Trio, whose surf and spy instrumentals come to Jersey City's Fox & Crow on Saturday, Feb. 4. There's no Ray Corvair in the Ray Corvair ...

Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” who formulated the sound and attack of the Southern California-bred instrumental style in the early ‘60s, has died. He was 81. His bassist, Sam Bolle, ...

There's almost always a few Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees each day who are so psyched to stake out a spot for the headliner that they arrive when gates open and sprint across Zilker Park ...

"You'll never hear surf music again," is a very famous line from "Third Stone From the Sun," from Jimi Hendrix's debut album Are You Experienced (1967). That lyric was taken by many (including myself, ...

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.His former bassist ...

With their matching light-blue fringed dresses, ’60s beehive hairdos and knee-high white boots, The Surfrajettes look like glamorous mod superheroines as they prowl across concert stages up and down ...

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.

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.