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 ...

The Pacific Northwest is home to a small, but fervent surf rock scene with bands often accenting instrumental music with pop culture themes. It's a vibe that culminates at an annual surf music ...

The members of Nuclear Juarez have a way of playing off each other conversationally, and it’s also evident in the way their music unfolds. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Nuclear Juarez San Antonio’s Nuclear ...

Plenty of stellar rock guitarists through the years have been honored posthumously. Some, though, remain underrated. And I happen to think that’s the case for Don Wilson, the rhythm guitarist of the ...

Kioea is back. They look slightly different, but they don’t sound any less fantastic. Instrumental psychedelic surf rock you say? Yes. That’s exactly what this is. You’re either thinking, ‘holy smokes ...

City of the Sun may call Brooklyn home, but the band’s wordless, genre-blurring sound has always traveled well beyond borders. Drawing from indie rock, ...

Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin’” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81. Dick Dale, whose ...