Walter “Shep” Cooke, the bass player for one of Tucson’s most promising 1960s bands and a member of Linda Ronstadt’s Stone Poneys band that launched her national career, died early Monday, Nov. 7, at ...

When her song ‘Nếu Có Xa Nhau’ appeared in the HBO show ‘The Sympathizer,’ my family gathered around the television to watch ...

What started as a surf-punk project between two guitarists turned into one of the best new shoegaze bands of the year. Denver musicians Phoebe Rankin and Max Murray know each other well, having played ...

The “battle of the bands” concept wasn’t invented during the 1960s, when hundreds of teen bands began springing up in suburban garages in the wake of the rise of surf music and, a bit later, the ...

Peter Doggett’s story of the band in Surf’s Up shines the spotlight on all five members and gives us a new appreciation of their work after their glory days The Beach Boys in 1967: From left, Carl ...

Super Girl Surf Festival is the world's largest female surf event. The free festival, Saturday and Sunday in Jacksonville Beach, features surf and live music. Surf's up, or at least that's what ...

The early years for Al Jardine of the Beach Boys were challenging ones. Though they would write a lot of car songs, the guitarist himself, didn't have one in his teenage years prior to joining the ...

RAINS JUST AN HOUR AGO NEAR PALM BEACH COUNTY. NOW, FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. NOT BAD. WE’LL SEE SOME SUNSHINE, SOME CLOUDS. LOOKING GOOD. IF YOU WANT TO HEAD OUT TO THE BEACH. JUST A FEW COASTAL RAINS.

Few surf rock bands have a discography as huge as The Challengers. This surf rock outfit is best known for the highly influential record Surfbeat from 1963. They were quite popular at the time; they ...

From sun-bleached hair to salt-crusted skin, surf culture in the ’60s and ’70s was as much about the lifestyle as it was about the waves. Beaches were alive with the thump of rock and reggae, the ...

There’s a picture on Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s website of his younger self playing bass. He’s wearing gym shorts that fit him like pants, down to his ankles, and an oversized red jersey. He’s ...