"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, ...

There's almost always a few Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees each day who are so psyched to stake out a spot for the headliner that they arrive when gates open and sprint across Zilker Park ...

With the recent passing of Brian Wilson, there's been a renewed interest in the surfrockmusic of The Beach Boys. In the band's early years, they became the best and most successful artists playing ...

evilgiane, founder of Surf Gang Records, has surprise released his new instrumental album, Giane 2. Giane 2 arrives as the follow-up to the New York producer’s 2022 project Giane. The new album sees ...

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It would be reductive to say that lyrics about sun, sand and surf would be enough to constitute a “surf song” — think the lyrics of the Beach Boys with the instrumentals of, say, a Guns N’ Roses song.