Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spoiler alert: the 2025 US Open of Surfing has way more going on than heats at the beach. Sure, the WSL's Challenger Series and ...

While surfing and guitars have always gone together, very few top-notch surfers have made the grade as professional musicians. Here, surf music for the soul. While surfing and guitars have always gone ...

Do you remember these early pioneers of surf music?

The notion of jazz as surf music seems absurd at first blush, but it can work surprisingly well. Some time ago I learned this by happenstance while listening to an album by fusion guitarist Alex ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From electric guitar pioneer Leo Fender’s Fullerton factory to the Rendezvous Ballroom in Newport Beach, Orange County played a vibrant role in a homegrown ...

The best soundtracks from 40 years of surf-movie music. From “Morning of the Earth” to “Momentum,” these soundtracks have eclipsed the films themselves. Ellis Ericson gets in touch with his hippie ...

Surf rock’s heyday was back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, though it has seen a few resurgences here and there through the years. There were quite a few bands and musicians who made music in the ...

The first tune I ever wrote – a proper tune, with an intro, verses, choruses and a middle bit – was a surfing instrumental. I have always been a pretty crappy singer, and I figured that the guitar ...

Surf Music launched in May 2023 as a marketplace for creators to share unreleased tunes, giving artists a new way to generate revenue from their creativity and publishers and music managers another ...

In 1966, just before the country went psychedelic and the place to be was off the grid and deep in the woods, there was the beach. The passing this week of Mike Hynson—star of that year's cult surf ...