If the notion of four guys playing rock ‘n’ roll in suits and Mexican wrestling masks might seem off-putting to some, it’s been intriguing to plenty of Los Straitjackets’ other musical peers. Since it ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

After three years of holiday tours with Nick Lowe, a Los Straitjackets tribute to the British singer, songwriter and producer hardly comes as a surprise. And it will come on May 19, when the masked… ...

The Nashville music scene doesn't really conjure up images of surf guitar and Mexican wrestling costumes, but Los Straitjackets' music is hardly about adherence to the predictable. The group first ...

At first blush, the pairing sounds incongruous: 1980s pop-rocker Marshall Crenshaw, who wowed critics and fans at the time with his pop sensibilities, playing with jokey-but-very-talented masked surf ...

The late novelist Pearl S. Buck once said that to find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. That idea seems to apply to singer/songwriter/musician Nick Lowe, who is riding high with ...

If the notion of four guys playing rock ‘n’ roll in suits and Mexican wrestling masks might seem off-putting to some, it’s been intriguing to plenty of Los Straitjackets’ other musical peers. Since it ...