OC surfer and punk vocalist Steve "Crabby" Cabler, who barely survived the 2002 Bali bombing that claimed the lives of more than 200 people, photographed at his home in Costa Mesa. (Allen J. Schaben / ...

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On Saturday, October 20, San Diego-based surf-punk act Wavves will bring distorted yet sunshiney California beach music to the Paper Tiger. The project formed in 2009 by singer Nathan Williams and has ...

Nirvana’s Nevermind dropped in the fall of 1991. It made the Pacific Northwest trio a global phenomenon. And opened the floodgates for heavy, punk-inflected music from an obscure corner of America. It ...

For as amorphous as punk rock has gotten over the years, thank god original gangsters like Agent Orange are still out there representing the foundational roots. Since their 1980 emergence, they’ve ...

The biannual Punk Rock BBQ is revving up to rock your socks off once again. The theme for the summer lineup this year is instrumental bands with an alternative surf vibe. And I don't mean shitty bands ...

Frontman Rafa Heredia says, "This is a song about self reflection after having maybe a pint too many at your favorite divey hole in the wall, it’s a callback to tracks like “Alabama song (Whisky Bar)” ...

Stacey MacLeod thinks her bedroom punk outfit of seven years might be better off dead. “I’m the bleak bastard who says ‘I’ll be a famous dead woman.’ I’m partially joking, but times have changed since ...

Steve Cabler was living it up in Bali: surfing all day and partying all night. He’d traveled from his home in Newport Beach on a surf trip to Indonesia with his best friend, Steve Webster. The two ...