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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your favorite band of demented chickens fronted by a punk rock carrot made its way to network television recently. Radioactive Chicken Heads performed on The Gong Show, getting gonged off the stage ...

Rick Shefchik: "In 1963, you’d turn on the radio and you’d have Roy Orbison and the Trashmen and Ricky Nelson, and the Trashmen were as big as any of those bands when 'Surfin’ Bird' hit." Minnesota ...

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 ...

We must by now have reached the moment that The Trashmen predicted: At long last, it must be that everybody’s heard that the bird is the word. After all, when this local surf-rock band welded together ...

Who doesn’t love a little “Surfin’ Bird”? The 1963 surf rock anthem from The Trashmen was a huge hit when it was first released. It climbed to no. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that very year. The ...

Davey Harms, who records and performs as Mincemeat or Tenspeed, typically makes big, scruffy beats solely with feedback loops that he coaxes from pedals and mixers. Waiting for Surfin’ Bird is the ...