The Bee Gees — brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb — were one of the biggest bands of the '70s, and their Saturday Night Fever soundtrack defined the disco era. The harmonizing brothers first ...

Just because a band sings “Surfing U.S.A.” and “California Girls” doesn’t mean it’s a surf band. Surf music has a long history, encompassing sounds as diverse as Dick Dale’s “Miserlou” and surf-punk ...

Dick Dale wanted to play the guitar to mimic how he felt when he went surfing. That’s how Peter Townend — as Dale was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2011 — described the music that was a ...

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The California Surf Museum is acknowledging those who helped launch what became a worldwide phenomenon – skateboarding. “At the dawn of the 1960s, when the waves were flat, surfers were skateboarding, ...

The Surfrajettes find audiences wherever they go, even when the gig is nowhere near a beach. “And if there’s a guitar community, they come out,” Surfrajette Shermy Freeman said. “Guitars and surf ...