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surf music

British  

noun

  1. a US West Coast style of pop music of the early 1960s, characterized by high harmony vocals and strong trebly guitar riffs

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With songs including California Girls, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows, Brian Wilson and his band The Beach Boys took Californian surf music and made it famous around the world.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2022

Then came “Gidget,” surf music, the beach-party movies, “The Endless Summer.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

Neil Young and Jim Messina began their careers playing surf music.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2019

The magazine called Dale's song “the harbinger of the ’60s surf music craze.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2019

Their musical debts lie in surf music, Afro pop and ’80s rock.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2018