Music, Motion, and Meaning Collide at SXSW Austin’s SXSW has long been a place where music, film, and culture intersect—but ...

The terminology is consistent with a type of stylish but varied instrumental garage rock bent that has been called surf guitar, hot rod, biker rock and so on. Locked into a time (mostly the '60s) and ...

The Pacific Northwest is home to a small, but fervent surf rock scene with bands often accenting instrumental music with pop culture themes. It's a vibe that culminates at an annual surf music ...

There’s no need to catch an actual wave to feel like you’re out in the California surf this month thanks to the return of a festival that celebrates beach music. The 15th annual Surf Guitar 101 ...

Dave Wronski builds guitars and plays surf guitar. He doesn't surf, but you'd never know it from listening to his band, Slacktone. Slacktone has been around since 1995? Yeah. The drummer, Dusty Watson ...

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 ...

Santa Cruz is of course no stranger to surfing and surf culture. Naturally, surf music is a big part of that. Jeff “Stretch” Riedle, the drummer and leader of local outfit The New Shockwaves, brings ...