Two up-and-coming rock bands influenced by the Ventures are San Diego’s Wavves, who fuses Phil Spector girl group pop with distorted surf rock riffs and rhythms, and Danish rock duo the ...

The last of the original Ventures will come out of retirement Sunday to play at a fund raiser in honor of his former band mate, Nokie Edwards.

Tim Wilson beamed as a small crowd gathered to pay tribute to his late father Don Wilson, rhythm guitarist for the Ventures, at a booth at the NAMM Show in Anaheim on Friday. “It’s fabulous ...