Trestles

Trestles is a surf/pysch outfit from Santa Cruz, California. Formed in 2021, the band has spent the last several years developing a sound based in 1960’s west coast garage rock tradition. From their early days as a fresh faced college rock band to their more recent years as garage revivalists, the band has consistently been the definitive face of the Santa Cruz independent music scene. 

A sort of modern take on a surf/60’s revival sound, (a la The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Allah-Las, La Luz, The Nude Party, etc) Trestles’ current day sound is the byproduct of shared time studying and obsessing over the history of music recording arts at the local community college. The band’s attitude about “...what makes guitar bands worth anything in the age of infinitely accessible stimulation and dopamine addiction,” seems to be Trestles’ only traceable ethos. Seeing the current landscape of independent music projects as “...a bunch of short-form theatre acts,” the band’s only goal is to do what they think is actually worth doing, and to do it well.