List of surf musicians
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 areas of Southern California. It was especially popular from 1961 to 1966, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music.[1]
1950s, 1960s
- Al Casey
- The Atlantics
- The Astronauts
- The Beach Boys
- The Bel-Airs
- Bruce & Terry
- Bruce Johnston
- The Centurions
- The Challengers
- The Champs
- The Chantays
- Dick Dale
- Eddie & the Showmen
- The Fantastic Baggys
- The Fender IV
- Gary Usher
- The Hondells
- The Honeys
- Jan & Dean
- Jerry Cole
- Jim Fuller
- Jim Messina & the Jesters
- The Lively Ones
- The Marketts
- Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos
- The Navarros
- The Orange Peels
- The Pyramids
- The Revels
- Richie Allen
- The Rip-Chords
- The Rivieras
- The Rockin' Rebels
- Ronny & the Daytonas
- Royale Monarchs
- Sandy Nelson
- The Sandals
- The Sentinals
- The Shadows
- The Sunrays
- The Surfaris
- Takeshi Terauchi
- Terry Melcher
- The Tornadoes (California, USA)
- The Trashmen
- The Ventures
Later revivalists
- Agent Orange
- Allah-Las
- The Apemen
- Aqua Velvets
- Atomic 7
- The Bambi Molesters (Croatia)
- The Barracudas
- Beach Fossils
- Ben Howard
- Best Coast
- Blue Hawaiians
- The Bomboras
- Greg Camp (of late 1990s band Smash Mouth, currently of Defektor)
- Martin Cilia
- Shana Cleveland
- Daikaiju
- Donavon Frankenreiter
- The Drums
- Dum Dum Girls
- FIDLAR
- The 5.6.7.8's
- The Fresh & Onlys
- The Ghastly Ones
- The Good The Bad
- The Growlers
- Huevos Rancheros
- Chris Isaak
- Jetpack
- La Luz
- Laika & the Cosmonauts
- Laramie Dean
- Les Fradkin & Get Wet
- Les Savy Fav
- Lo Presher
- Los Campeones
- Los Straitjackets
- Man or Astro-man?
- The Mel-Tones
- The Mermen
- Messer Chups
- Monsters From Mars
- The Mulchmen
- The New Electric Sound
- No Age
- The Phantom Surfers
- Phono-Comb
- Pixies
- The Raybeats
- Red Elvises
- Reef (band)
- The Reigning Monarchs
- The Reverb Syndicate
- Rootjoose
- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
- Sublime
- The Supertones
- Surf City
- Surf Coasters (Japan)
- Surf Punks
- Shannon and the Clams
- Surfer Blood
- Susan and The SurfTones
- The Tarantulas (Randy J. And The Tarantulas)
- The Thurston Lava Tube
- The Trashwomen
- Eddie Vedder
- Vivian Girls
- Wavves
- Whirled Peas
- The Young Werewolves
- The Ziggens
- Toulouse Engelhardt
- Y Niwl
References
- ↑ V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul (Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), pp. 1313-4.
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