Santa Cruz is of course no stranger to surfing and surf culture. Naturally, surf music is a big part of that. Jeff “Stretch” Riedle, the drummer and leader of local outfit The New Shockwaves, brings ...

Working odd jobs, dabbling in the local music scene and surfing in San Diego, one day in 1990, a young Eddie Vedder received a tape in the mail from Stone Gossard in Seattle. On it was a demo ...