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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Example Sentences

When one thinks of L.A. music history, you might think of rock, surf music, hip-hop, the singer-songwriter scene, heavy metal.

From Los Angeles Times

But Mr. Collins’s innovations as a guitarist extended beyond surf music and rockabilly.

From New York Times

Mr. Morantz worked part time in his brother’s office while pursuing freelance writing projects, including a Rolling Stone story about surf music duo Jan and Dean that he later helped adapt into a TV movie called “Deadman’s Curve.”

From Washington Post

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

Her next group, 8 Eyed Spy, mixed West Coast surf music with groundbreaking punk-jazz, but she broke the band up because “we were becoming too popular. My ideal audience would be reduced to one,” she said.

From New York Times