Why we’re “riding the music wave”

Riding the Music Wave was born out of Assistant Editor Carla Crujido’s love of music, late ‘70s surfing culture, and her Pacific island roots.

Unbeknownst to her mother, one of the first concerts she attended was with her older brother at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California. She was twelve. What followed was decades of seeing shows everywhere from abandoned churches to Wembley Stadium. 

It was her obsession with music that lead to the creation of Riding the Music Wave and her childhood growing up in an iconic Southern California beach town replete with mythic surf culture that inspired the name. Of the idea behind the playlist she says, “You can tell more about a person from their musical taste than anything else.” Crujido asks each writer to tell us how music inspires or informs their writing and give us a playlist that reflects those influences.

What are you waiting for? Surf through the playlists, read the writer’s words, and listen to who they are.