The Milwaukee band’s latest album is based on their own version of “surf rock.” ...

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 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The sun isn’t out all day in the Pacific Northwest, and its beaches aren’t friendly for all night parties. But that doesn’t keep El Borko from playing surf rock. In a typical week, El Borko can often ...

It was an unforgettable day of music on April 1, 1995 for musician John Blair and Grammy-winning producer Mark Linett. They were at a packed show at the iconic Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, a ...

When surf rock duo Jan & Dean released their 1963 hit “Dead Man’s Curve,” they expected to capitalize on a popular trend of teenage tragedy songs set to quintessentially ‘60s surf guitar and falsetto ...

Surf rock has long been the soundtrack of Southern California, and rightfully so. After all, it was there in the early 1960s that Dick Dale and the Del-Tones introduced the groovy, spring-reverbed ...

Morro Bay Fire rescued a surfer stranded on Morro Rock on Monday morning. At 9:25 a.m., agencies received reports of someone on the north side of the rock in Morro Bay, according to emergency scanner ...