David Powers

Nashville may be far from beaches and Mexico, but Los Straitjackets prove that it’s a smallworld for Latin-centric surf music.

A broken-down Pontiac helped shape the Balboas, Akron’s far-flung surf outfit.

A defiant punker weighs in on the Warped tour, the next Bob Dylan, and singing about girls.

Let down by experiences in other Kent bands, the guys in Channel find psychedelic harmony with each other.

A decade ago, Midnight Oil burned beds worldwide. Today the band fights classic rocker status in its native Australia.