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.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.
1960s
The Atlantics The Astronauts The Beach Boys The Bel-Airs Bruce & Terry Al Casey The Centurians The Challengers The Champs The Chantays Jerry Cole Dick Dale Eddie & the Showmen Electric Johnny & his Skyrockets The Fantastic Baggys The Fender IV Jim Fuller Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos The Hondells The Honeys Jan & Dean Paul Johnson Bruce Johnston The Lively Ones The Marketts Terry Melcher Jim Messina & the Jesters The Navarros Sandy Nelson The Orange Peels Richard Podolor The Pyramids The Revels The Rip-Chords The Rivieras The Rockin' Rebels Ronny & the Daytonas Royale Monarchs The Sandals The Sentinals The Shadows The Spinners The Sunrays The Surfaris Takeshi Terauchi The Tornadoes The Trashmen Gary Usher The Ventures
Later revivalists
Agent Orange Allah-Las The Apemen Aqua Velvets Atomic 7 The Bambi Molesters The Barracudas Beach Fossils Best Coast Blue Hawaiians The Bomboras Greg Camp (of late 1990s band Smash Mouth, currently of Defektor) Martin Cilia Shana Cleveland Daikaiju Laramie Dean The Drums Dum Dum Girls The El Caminos Toulouse Engelhardt Fidlar The 5.6.7.8's Donavon Frankenreiter Les Fradkin & Get Wet The Fresh & Onlys The Ghastly Ones The Good The Bad The Growlers Ash Grunwald Ben Howard Huevos Rancheros Chris Isaak Jon and the Nightriders Junior Brown King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (earlier releases) La Luz Langhorns Laika & the Cosmonauts Lo Presher Man or Astro-man? The Mermen Messer Chups The Mulchmen The New Electric Sound No Age Par Avion The Phantom Surfers Phono-Comb Pixies The Raybeats Real Estate Red Elvises Reef The Reigning Monarchs The Reverb Syndicate Rootjoose Les Savy Fav Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Shannon and the Clams Cody Simpson Los Straitjackets Southern Culture on the Skids Sublime The Surfrajettes Surf City Surf Coasters Surf Curse Surf Punks Surfer Blood Susan and the Surftones The Tarantulas The Thurston Lava Tube The Trashwomen Eddie Vedder Vivian Girls Wallows Wavves The Young Werewolves The Ziggens Y Niwl
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