California, we were fighting the Vietnam War, gas cost 30 cents per gallon and Bob Dylan caused a folk music uproar by using an electric guitar. The Minneapolis-based garage band visited the West ...

Spring 1963: A year after forming, the Trashmen road-trip to California and come back as surf-rockers. Summer 1963: Drummer Steve Wahrer improvises an early version of "Surfin' Bird" at Chubb's ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore's trash and dumping issues have inspired more out-state-groups to help clean up. President Trump's criticism of living conditions and trash in parts of West Baltimore ...

Tony Andreason, one of the men behind the Trashmen’s 1963 smash “Surfin’ Bird,” will be honored for his lifetime of contributions to the Minnesota music scene during the second annual Bill Diehl Award ...

Dick Clark smugly asked those words in 1964 at the end of what has to be one of the strangest "American Bandstand" performances in the show's 47-year history. He clearly didn't expect Minnesota's ...

“Surfin’ Bird” could have been one of the most annoying and forgettable novelty tunes in the history of rock ‘n’ roll music. Instead, it became the No. 1 hit in Minnesota in early 1964, and made it to ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Reason No. 785 that “there will always be an England”: The U.K. pop ...

With “Big-Time Hockey in a Small Mountain Town,” the benefit game between the NHL Alumni All-Stars and the Trashmen of Aspen, now less than a week away, it’s time to meet some of the local hockey ...

Six-time Stanley Cup winner Glenn Anderson called on the magic of his 18-year career to lead a team of former NHL players over the Aspen Trashmen in a charity game at the Aspen Ice Garden Saturday ...