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 ...

"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, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs such as “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin’” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FILE - In this May 27, 2007 file photo, Dick Dale, known as "The King of the Surf Guitar," performs at B.B. King Blues Club in New York. Dale has died at age 81. His former bassist Sam Bolle says Dale ...