After Jan & Dean recorded their catchy hit "Surf City," the song topped the charts and allowed listeners around the country to imagine the coolness and relaxation of beach life in the 1960s. Although ...

Did you know there’s such a thing as French surf rock? Like Serge Gainsbourg said, moi non plus. Thankfully, local instrumental band Jim and the Sea Dragons are well-versed in and have imported some ...

Linda Ronstadt is no one-hit wonder. Technically, her old band, The Stone Poneys, would be considered one-hit wonders. The baroque pop folk group only scored one major hit back in the 1960s, and that ...

Hang ten! Disney Channel is moving from high school to the seashore for its next song-and-dance extravaganza, Teen Beach Musical. A modern-day take on the classic beach musicals of the 1960s, the new ...

In the summer of 1962, 16-year-old Tommy Nunes and his group The Sentinals toured the country in a station wagon, promoting Nunes’ instrumental song “Latin’ia.” Meanwhile, members of The Impacts, ...

Surf music was born in the early 1960s in Southern California. Heavily reverbed guitars gave the music a watery texture and wildly careening rhythms evoked the power and unpredictability of waves.