The Ziggens Return After 19 Years With New Single ‘Rev It Up’

Long-running and influential Southern California “cowpunksurfabilly” purveyors The Ziggens are celebrating 30 years as a band this summer by releasing the 19 track album, Oregon, their first in 19 years. While always skirting around the edges of the underground, the band’s mighty legion of fans has included such luminaries as Bradley Nowell (who signed them to the Skunk Records label, covered Big Salty Tears and for years enlisted them to tour as Sublime‘s opening act). The late Josh Fischel of Bargain Music, and a young Travis Barker, were often seen up front at the band’s early shows.

Throughout the band’s 30 year existence, they’ve maintained their original lineup and continued to tour, while also working on various side projects such as bassist Jon Poutney‘s supergroup Volcano with The Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood, Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh, and Sublime soundman Michael ‘Miguel’ Happoldt, and The Ziggens frontman Bert Susanka‘s children’s music act Jelly of the Month Club (also with Bud Gaugh). The band have now released Rev It Up, the lead single from The Ziggens‘ forthcoming album, Oregon.

“Bert wrote this song primarily because the first music he heard as a child was surf music. Growing up in Huntington Beach he feels very comfortable writing reverb-heavy, ocean-influenced types of songs. He was also listening to his favorite surf band, The Sandals a lot around the time he crafted this enthusiastic, robust surf burner. Cars, women and waves!”

Rev it Up can be streamed via Spotify and Apple Music