• Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern...
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    Surf Curse is an American indie surf rock band formed in 2012 in Reno, Nevada, and now based out of Los Angeles. The band was originally formed by Nick...
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    drawing on a wide range of American influences including soul music, rhythm and blues and surf music. Initially, they reinterpreted standard American tunes,...
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  • Look up surf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surf or SURF may refer to: Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever "Surfing the Web"...
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  • Surfaces is an American music group based in College Station, Texas. Their music is a blend of surf music, jazz, soul, pop rock, hip hop, reggae, and...
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  • helped make the surf music craze a national phenomenon. It is often argued that the surf music craze and the careers of almost all surf acts was effectively...
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    Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion, and lifestyle surrounding the sport of surfing. The history of surfing began with the ancient Polynesians...
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  • of the Surf Guitar is the second studio album of surf music by Dick Dale, released in 1963, featuring original and cover songs. "King of the Surf Guitar"...
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    Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of...
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    boats. Archaeological evidence even suggests that ancient cultures of Peru surfed on reed watercraft for fishing and recreation up to five thousand years...
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  • This is a list of surf musicians. Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Orange County and other...
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    Dick Dale (category Surf musicians)
    a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which...
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  • The Surf Punks were a pop punk band formed in 1976 by Malibu residents Dennis Dragon (1947-2017) and Drew Steele (d. October 2021). (Dragon was the son...
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  • Surf punk may refer to: Look up surf punk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surf punk (music genre), a genre of surf music and punk rock Surf punk (surf...
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  • any other surf band. Their recording of the title track "Surf Party" would go on to become a classic within the canon of first-wave surf music original...
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    Del-Tones, pioneers in the surf genre. The album was released in November 1962. The recording established the conventions of surf music and brought the concept...
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  • 21. "Surf Music Genre Overview – AllMusic". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 29, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2014. "Louisiana Music Hall...
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    Nada Surf is an American alternative rock band formed in New York City in 1992, consisting of Matthew Caws (guitar, vocals), Ira Elliot (drums), and Daniel...
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  • Terry Melcher (category Surf music record producers)
    child. Melcher has been credited with helping to shape the sound of 1960s surf music in California. In the early 1960s, Melcher and Bruce Johnston formed the...
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  • Surf II is a 1984 American comedy film written and directed by Randall M. Badat and starring Eddie Deezen, Linda Kerridge, Eric Stoltz and Jeffrey Rogers...
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    Surf movies fall into three distinct genres: The surfing documentary — targeting the surfing enthusiast. The 1960's beach party films — targeting the broader...
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  • Gamblers are one of the first influential musical acts that recorded surf music, a genre popularized initially in Southern California. The group, led...
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    Music Died" – early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson gave their last performances at the Surf on...
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    The Lively Ones (redirect from Surf Rider)
    The Lively Ones were an American surf music band from USA, active in Southern California in the 1960s. They played live mostly in California and Arizona...
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  • Daikaiju (band) (category American surf music groups)
    Daikaiju (stylized "DaiKaiju") is a kaiju-themed surf punk band from Huntsville, Alabama, now based out of Houston, usually consisting of two guitarists...
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    is mentioned in the opening song to seminal 1963 surfing movie "Beach Party". Legendary surf music guitarist Dick Dale memorialized the Wedge in an eponymous...
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  • The Challengers (band) (category American surf music groups)
    were an instrumental surf rock band started in Los Angeles, California, in late 1962. They represented a growing love for surf music and helped make the...
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  • for Pulp Fiction. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul. The soundtrack is equally untraditional, consisting of...
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    number-ones "Surf City" (1963), "I Get Around" (1964), "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966). He is considered among the first music producer...
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    Dengue Fever (band) (category American surf music groups)
    noted for expanding the band's sound even further into girl group pop, surf music, jazz, African rhythms, and other styles while retaining its roots in...
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