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 ...

You don't have to surf to play gnarly surf guitar. You just have to feel the ocean flowing through your veins. Just ask Portland resident , who far prefers a brisk ocean swim to riding the crest of a ...

Instrumental surf music had a brief reign as a top form of pop music in the early 1960s, until the British invasion knocked it from the charts. But the music still had fans, and when film director ...