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The Juke Box Hero segment returns on Catching A Wave this hour as we hear 3 tunes on a 1968 Rock-Ola Jukebox from Jim Babjak of The Smithereens! Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We spin a tune from The Lively Ones from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time Segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, we've got rockers from Reverend Horton Heat, The Smithereens (covering an instrumental by The Beatles), The Neanderthals, Televisionaries & Les Greeene, The GO-GO Rilas, The Foreign Films, Jack Botts, The Super Stocks, Tiger Army, The Greasy Gills, The Hang Ten-Hangmen and Hipbone Slim & The Kneejerks!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Hang-Ten Hangmen- "Beach Bonanza" Tiger Army- "Enchantment" The Greasy Gills- "Texas Twist" Hipbone Slim & The Kneejerks- "You've Been Rumbled" Televisionaries & Les Greene- "Airbound"   "Good Time" segment: The L

Catching A Wave is once again jam packed with all the reverb, garage, rock/pop goodness we could find this hour! Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon talks about playing with Los Straitjackets in our Green Room segment including their ode to the Boston Red Sox (in honor of MLB Spring Training)! Beth Riley has another great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We play a tune from an album celebrating it's 10th anniversary from Messer Chups in our Good Time segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, if that isn't enough, we have rockers from Pollo Del Mar, The Delta Bombers, Now That's What I Call Surf, Beach Moonsters, Ichi-Bons, Northern Tides, Softlung, The Terrorsurfs, SPF 1985, The Jaws Of Brooklyn, The Atom Jacks and Bard's Flying Vessel!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Delta Bombers- "Hey You Know You Wanna" Beach Moonsters- "Panic At Omaha Beach" Ichi-Bons- "Ich-I-Bon #1" Bard's Flying Vessel- "Barro

We hear a tune from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year from Duane Eddy in our Good Time segment on this week's Catching A Wave.  Beth Riley has a cool deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week of August 11th, 1963 to hear some tunes on the KRLA playlist and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (Walter Egan).  Plus, we've got rockers from Davie Allan & The Arrows, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, The Doltones, McKinley James, Beachcombers, The Jackets, The Atlantics, The Association and The Courettes, Midnight Rodeo, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom and Wanted Man!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Mark Malibu & The Wasagas- "Hellbent For Speed" The Association/The Courettes- "Never My Love" The Doltones- "Deeper Swell" Wanted Man- "Coastin'" Panda Bear and Sonic Boom- "Gettin' To The Point"   "Good Time" segment: Duane Eddy 60th Anniversary of "Twa

There's new artists, hall of famers and everything in between on this new Catching A Wave!  Greg Townson talks about how he joined Los Straitjackets in our Green Room segment along with a tune of them covering Nick Lowe.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We spin a tune from The Surf Raiders from their 2nd album that is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year, we bring you music news and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, we've got songs from Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys (covering Buddy Holly), The Foreign Films, The Routes, Ichi-Bons, The Almighty Devildogs, The Smithereens, Softlung, Danyaal, The Weeklings (covering The Beatles), The Belinettas (covering The Ventures), Cameronoise and a rockin' instrumental from Creedence Clearwater Revival to start the show!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Glory Be" Ichi-Bons- "Don't Call Me Fly Fa

Time Machine, new tunes, deep tracks and a whole lot more are in store for you this hour on Catching A Wave! We hear a track from Jan & Dean's Surf City & Other Swingin' Cities that is celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year.  Beth Riley has a "friend"ly tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We'll board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week ending October 31st, 1964 to hear some tunes on the Billboard Hot 100 (including the #1 song) and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, ride the killer wave of rockers from The Atlantics, Al Jardine, Resonadores, The Neanderthals, Colony House, Surfmaster, The Tentakills, The Tourmaliners, The Cruncher, Kincaid & The Memetics and Dave Myers & The Surftones!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Atlantics- "Surfing The Wedge" Resonadores- "republica banana" The Neanderthals- "Devil or Angel" Colony House- "Cannonballers" Kincaid and The Memetics-

New albums, tours, classics and so much more are already brewing up in 2023! We'll pay tribute to the late, great Jeff Beck who passed away unexpectedly on January 10th, 2023. Hear a new segment on Catching A Wave called "You're The Inspiration" where we play artists that inspire others. This week, we play a track from The Shadows and covers of their tunes by Martin Cilia and Andy Summers! We hear a track from The Ventures from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year in our Good Time segment. Beth Riley has a cool deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, a varied and awesome mix of tunes from Davie Allan and The Arrows, Danny B. Harvey, Brian Wilson, The Monkees, The Astronauts, Atomic Tourists (opening dates now with Surfer Joe), Surfer Joe, Kooked Out, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, Maple Mars and The Delta Ring!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Tikiyaki Or

It might be winter but the tunes are hot this hour on Catching A Wave!  We spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun to hear 3 randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys (from Sail On, A.J. Croce and The Flaming Lips). Beth Riley has a deep track from them on her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We hear tunes from The Hula Girls, The Manakooras and The Royal Pacifics who will all be at the Hi-Tide Winter Holiday. We've got a track from The Astronauts from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. If that isn't enough, we've got tracks from Ichi-Bons, The Jagaloons, Lucky 757, Rufus Lee King And The Dream, The Smithereens (with The Honeys), Frankie & The Pool Boys, The Brain Waves, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Teisco Del Rey (with Mel Taylor and Paul Johnson) and Petty Thieves! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Rufus Lee King And The Dream- "8th and Ocean" The Smithereens- "Baby Be Goo

We've got a funky and loud Two-nami in the Catching A Wave forecast with 2 songs featuring guest guitars by Dick Dale from Tonio K and Gary Hoey.  Our "good time" segment features a track from The Hi-Risers from an album celebrating it's 20th anniversary.  Beth Riley has a "time"ly deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox for our selection of the week (also Beach Boys related).  Plus, turn it up for rockers from Cameronoise, The Beach Berserkers, The Darts, Man Or Astro-Man?, The Dubceks, The Surfer Novas, spacedog spacecat, The Atom Jacks, Randells, The Routes, Satan's Pilgrims and Surf Cult!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Cameronoise- "I Overheard Someone Telling Me" The Surfer Novas- "Escape Velocity" spacedog spacecat- "Etec., Beach" Surf Cult- "Lost Highway" Satan's Pilgrims- "La Luna"   "Good Time" segment: The Hi-Risers 20th anniversary of Lost Weekend (Spinout Records) The Hi-Risers- "Ghost Of The

We spin tunes from 3 of the acts coming to Winter Surf Fest Feb. 3-5, 2023 in Long Beach, CA (The Tourmaliners, Sant Anna Bay Coconuts and Surfer Joe).  Our Good Time spotlight track is from Dick Dale from an album celebrating it's 30th anniversary.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  I read some quotes from Tom Petty and Mike Campbell on Carl Wilson in the Green Room Segment along with a track from Tom that Carl Wilson sings backing vocals and Ringo Starr plays drums.  We'll also drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, we've got some rockin' tunes from Wiped Out, The MES, Malibooz, The Ventures, Cosmic Surf, HJ & The Constellations, Randell Kirsch and The Delta Ring. Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Tourmaliners- "Close Out" Sant Anna Bay Coconuts- "Mayhem On The Atlantic" Surfer Joe- "Movin'" The MES- "Caveman Beat" The Malibooz- "Little XKR"   "Good Time" segment: Dick Dale

It's early into 2023 and already a Two-Nami in the forecast (2 in a row from Marco Di Maggio)! Beth Riley has a cool deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We pay tribute to Dino Danelli who passed away on December 15, 2022 with a rocker from The Young Rascals. We drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox for our selection of the week and we hear a great track from The Surfaris from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. Plus, we've got awesome tunes from Christian Love, S.H.A.R.P. (The Surf Hermits and Angry Red Planet), The Routes, The Immediate Family, Cheap Trick, Amphibian Man, Danny Adlerman & Friends (Jim Babjak and Kurt Reil), The Green Reflectors, Magnatech, The Beach Berserkers, Walter Egan (with Dean Torrence & Stevie Nicks on BGV's, produced by Lindsey Buckingham) and Ichi-Bons!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Routes- "Axe To Grind" S.H.A.R.P.- "That's Not The Goose" Ichi-Bons- "Can't Stop Moanin'" Wa

So excited about 2023 and all the new music sent in recently and on the way! We'll start a "good time" song spotlight this year as we look back on some albums celebrating an anniversary! Lots of them are celebrating a 60th anniversary this year including The Challengers- Surfbeat and we'll hear a track from that one. Duane Eddy is in the Green Room segment talking about Forrest Gump. Beth Riley has a great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (Chicago and The Beach Boys related). Plus, we've got great rockin' tunes from Martin Cilia, The Arcs, The Ventures, The Hondells, The Screaming Seagulls, Link Wray, The Beatersband, Norby Violano, Retrofofuetes, Dennis Diken with Bell Sound, The Del Roswells, Poolhead and The Salinas!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Martin Cilia- "On The Beach" The Ventures- "The Alien" The Beatersband- "When You Walk In The Room" Norby Violano- "

Deven Berryhill from The Tourmaliners is in our Green Room segment talking about their new album on Pacific Records talking about their new album, Surfidia along with a couple of tracks from that album.  I drop a coin in the Jammin James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (featuring Chris Casello) and Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  Speaking of The Beach Boys, we have another previously unreleased track from them that just came out on their Sail On Sailor box set.  Plus, we've got rockers from Man Or Astro-man?, Impellitteri, Brian Ray, The Zipheads, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Grogans, The Dwellers, Weird Aliens, Party Nerves, The Longboards and Kincaid & The Memetics! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Man Or Astro-man?- "Microverses" The Zipheads- "Telekinesis" Weird Aliens- "Goin' To See A Dog About A Man" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers- "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" Party Nerves- "Coffin Hop" The Lon

It's the annual Catching A Wave Christmas show! All Christmas all hour long! Santa brought a gift early which is my awesome wife Beth Riley co-hosting with me! She has a Christmas tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we spin the "wheel of Fun, Fun, Fun" to hear a Beach Boys Christmas cover by Davie Allan & The Arrows and I've got a holiday rocker by The Hi-Risers in the Jammin' James Jukebox! Plus, we get in the festive spirit with songs from The Surfrajettes, The Ventures, The Smithereens, Shaun Young, The Monkees, The Surfaris, The Tourmaliners, Chris Isaak, Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, The Krontjong Devils, Surf Zombies, The Courettes, The Grip Weeds, Cameronoise and The Linda Lindas!   Intro music bed: "Martin Cilia"- Oh Come All Ye Faithful"   The Surfrajettes- "Marshmallow March" *Christmas Vacation snippet The Linda Lindas- "Groovy Xmas" Shaun Young- "Blue Christmas" The Smithereens- "Christmas Time All Over The World" Chris Isaak- "Almost Christmas" The Monkee

There's more great tunes coming in as well as Christmas rockers this week too on Catching A Wave!  Crank up the latest from Satan's Pilgrims, The Beach Berserkers, Arno De Cea & The Clockwork Wizards, The Tulsa Doom, The Kaisers, The Orions, Ocean Alley and a classic from The Atlantics.  Plus, since you're on the "Nice" list, we've got Christmas tunes from Magnatech, Jan & Dean, Jason Janik, Travis Koester, JD McPherson, Underwater Bosses, The Dubceks and The Green Reflectors (with guest Mark Malibu).  Beth Riley has a great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and as always we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Beach Berserkers- "Brand New Speedos" Arno De Cea & The Clockwork Wizards- "Everything Under The Sun Is For Everyone" Jason Janik- "Oh Come Emmanuel" The Dubceks- "The First Noel" Jan & Dean- "Frosty The Snowman" The Green Reflectors (with guest Mark Malibu)- "Tobog

The great tunes keep rolling into Catching A Wave studios every week! Hear The Tourmaliners (with Ron Blair of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), Ichi-Bons (on Hi-Tide Recordings), The Delta Ring, Abyssal Lurkers, Motorhead, The Routes, The Reverbly Ones and newly released A Cappella mix of The Beach Boys!  Beth Riley also has a deep track from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  Billy F Gibbons is in our Green Room segment talking about his awesome Whisker Bomb Hot Sauce (and we do mean HOT) along with a HOT Christmas rocker from him as well.  There's more Christmas tunes in the mix too from Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Jim and The Sea Dragons, Switchfoot, The Breakers, Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys and The Malibooz (with Dean Torrence).  Plus, as always we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!     Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Ichi-Bons- "Switchblade" The Delta Ring- "Mars Needs Puppies" Jim and The Sea Dragons- "Kringle

What a killer hour of great music this week!!  We've got a new track from The Ventures from their release New Space from Pony Canyon Records in Japan.  Christmas tunes are hitting the playlist this week too with a "Christmas Day" themed trio of tunes from Cheap Trick, Jim Babjak and The Weeklings.  There's also a trio of instrumental Christmas tracks from The Surfrajettes, Slowey & The Boats and The Young Barons.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, Duane Eddy is in our Green Room segment talking about one of his tracks that John Fogerty played on and we have a fun rocker in our Jammin James Jukebox selection of the week.  Plus, there's tunes from The Jackets, The Surf Hermits, Genki Genki Panic, Satan's Pilgrims, The Cranzers, The Kaisers and The Jagaloons!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Satan's Pilgrims- "Bayonet Constitution" The Cranzers- "Seagulls Party" The Kaisers- "Monkey Train" The Jagaloons- "Beyond The Exclusion Zone"

We play a trio of tunes honoring the late, great Jerry Lee Lewis who passed away on October 28th at 87 years old.  There's a live track from 1964 from him, Jimmy Page teaming up with Jerry Lee on a Led Zeppelin cover and a Killer cover from The 5678's!  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys on her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We also play the final track from their That's Why God Made The Radio release as we finish up our 10th anniversary celebration of that release and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox for our selection of the week.  Plus, there's great tunes in the mix from Frankie and The Pool Boys, Ichi-Bons, The Malibooz, The Green Reflectors, The Eye Five, Wiped Out, Master Wave, Lucky 757, High Noon Kahuna, Messer Chups, Jim & The Sea Dragons, The Courettes and Sys Malakian!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Green Reflectors- "Cruisin' For A Bruisin'" Wiped Out- "The Hearse" Sys Malakian- "Dolphin Ride" The Courettes- "Bye Bye Mon Amour" Messer

We combine our Green Room and Two-nami segments this week to honor the late, great Robert Gordon who unfortunately passed away on October 18th, 2022.  We hear him talking about playing with Link Wray on his first 2 albums along with a track from one of those and a track from his upcoming Cleopatra Records release with guitarist Chris Spedding.  Beth Riley has another fun deep track in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and as always we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  There's a track from both The Surfrajettes and Reverend Horton Heat who will be touring together early 2023 and songs from Satan's Pilgrims, Hawaiian Roller Coaster, Didi Wray, The Smithereens, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Los Choppers, Bowling For Soup, The Brain Waves, The Slimetones, The Mach IV, Kincaid & The Memetics and Surf Cult.   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Brain Waves- "Torpedo Juice" The Slimetones- "Slime and Punishment" Surf Cult- "Let's Play Hide The Soul"

We are packed full of great tunes on this Catching A Wave from Martin Cilia, Man Or AstroMan, The Cowsills, Darren Michael Boyd, The Trashmen, Danny Amis & Twin Tones, The Wilder, The Kaisers, Set Waves, Ocean Alley, The Tiki Creeps…a trio of James Bond/Spy themed tunes from Darrel Higham, The Tsunami Brothers and The Charades.  We have an interview snippet with Freddy Boom Boom Cannon in our Green Room segment.  Beth Riley has a deep track from the Beach Boys in her Surf’s Up Beth’s Beach Boys Break and as always we drop a coin in the JJJ for our selection of the week.    Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Tiki Creeps- "Gringo Parade" The Trashmen- "Bird Bath" Danny Amis & Twin Tones- "F.B.I." Set Waves- "Shoot The Curl" Ocean Alley- "Double Vision"   Trio of "James Bond/Spy theme": Darrel Higham- "James Bond Theme" The Tsunami Brothers- "License To Surf" The Charades- "(Theme From) Goldfinger"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "I'm Waiting For The Day" Foll

It's our annual Catching A Wave Halloween show!!!  Beth Riley has a deep track about a caveman named Alley Oop from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and our Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week is about a Werewolf!  Plus, ghoulishly fun tunes from The Surfrajettes, Los Straitjackets, Satan's Pilgrims, Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers, Messer Chups, Magnatech, The Courettes, Genki Genki Panic, The Jagaloons, Dick Dale, Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys, Atomic Drag, The Me-Gustas, Didi Wray, The Deadly Ones, The Breakers and The Ventures!  Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys/ "Ghostbusters"- Los Straitjackets   The Jagaloons- "Some Kind Of Munster" *It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown snippet The Surfrajettes- "Banshee Bop" Messer Chups- "Doctor Spook" The Me Gustas- "Black Cat Crawl" *Jerry Seinfeld standup snippet Genki Genki Panic- "Drac'd Raw Dot Com" *That 70's Show snippet Magnatech- "Dr. Mabuse" *Looney Tunes/Bugs Bunny snippet Los Strait