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Surf Rock genre — history, bands and artists
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Geography of Surf Rock
Where the artists of the genre come from and where it is on the radio
Landmark albums of Surf Rock
Studio albums that listeners most often call this genre
1989Still Cruisin’The Beach Boys
1962Surfin’ SafariThe Beach Boys
1981
Beauty and the BeatGo‐Go’s
1964
Surfin’ BirdThe Trashmen
2000
Miss Libido 2000Messer Chups
1999CaliforniaMr. Bungle
2019
DisclosureThe Beyonderers
2014
Fourth WaveThe Beyonderers
2015American Beauty/American PsychoFall Out Boy
New in Surf Rock
Albums and singles of the genre released in the last four months
2026The DivideSnake Mountain Revival
Surf Rock by year
How many studio albums of the genre came out each year
Surf Rock by country and decade
Bands and artists of the genre from different countries and eras, the best albums of each decade
By country
By decade
Artists of Surf Rock
The most listened artists of the genre and its subgenres: the bigger the name, the more listeners
- 50 Year Storm
- Amphibian Man
- Autoramas
- Cambodian Space Project
- Cape Cod
- Centre El Muusa
Chingón- Duane Eddy
- Fender IV
- Free Ride
- Guantanamo Baywatch
- Gurl
- Heaters
- hoovaranas
- Hot Flash Heat Wave
- James Burton
- Jan & Dean
Johnny and the Hurricanes- Johnny Kidd
- King Stingray
- Kioea
- Los Bitchos
- Los Reverb
- Man or Astro‐Man?
- Messer Chups
- Outronaut
- Ponta Preta
Red Elvises- Rootdown
- Santa Maria Death Trip
- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
- Shana Cleveland
- Snake Mountain Revival
- Sonny & the Sunsets
Sugar Candy Mountain- The Astronauts
- The Atlantics
- The Beach Boys
The Champs- The Chesterfield Kings
- The Darts
- The Growlers
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion- The Invisible Surfers
- The Phantom Surfers
- The Pyramid
- The Rivieras
- The Sandals
- The Shivas
- The Silhouette Era
- The Super Stocks
- The Surfaris
- The Tornadoes
- The Tornados
- The Trashmen
- The Vara-tones
- The Ventures
- Ultradémon
- Washington Dead Cats
Wavves
Overview
Genre relations
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Origins
Genres from which Surf Rock originated
Parent genre
Surf Rock is a subgenre, i.e. a narrower direction of these styles
Derived genres
Genres that evolved from Surf Rock