Surf’s Always up for So Cal Beach Rockers Sandollar
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Following a successful “From the Water” tour through California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, San Diego beach rock icons, Sandollar, are busy on new music releases to hit in the summer and fall of 2025. The award-winning band’s lead singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and guitarist, Baron Lunbeck, and bandmates return to the “invite only” Foo Fighters Studio 606 in late July to finish a full-length album.
Melding San Diego beach culture, rock, and reggae, Sandollar’s tight five-piece unit – Lunbeck, keyboardist-vocalist, guitarist Marco Rodrigues, guitarist-vocalist David Basham, drummer Henry Ortiz, and bassist Max Damkoehler – serves up a unique sound featuring good-vibe melodies, shredding rock guitar, and a soulfully tight rhythm section. Their magic is enhanced by some tasteful, mesmerizingly cool hip-hop grooves.
“My music is inspired by SoCal culture and lifestyle. We coined the expression ‘beach rock’ to describe our sound, which is a unique melding of different genres. Our songs carry the message of riding a wave and taking things as they come,” said Lunbeck, a surfer who rides waves at the legendary cliffside Black’s Beach most days.
Sandollar headlines a diverse Pacific Records festival at San Diego’s Kate Sessions Park in Pacific Beach. They’ll perform at the July 13 gig with labelmates. Baron and mates will drop an acoustic EP in August that they recorded with vocalist and Pacific Records artist, Kela Sako. Formed after daily jam sessions of musicians who met in a high school woodshop class, Sandollar’s 2013 debut album for Pacific Records, “Roller Coaster Ride,” debuted on the iTunes Reggae Music Albums chart at No. 7. Their “Under the Water” won the Best World Music Album at the 2023 San Diego Music Awards while the album’s “Warrior,” was nominated for Song of the Year. Bolstered by a loyal fanbase that sings along to every tune, Sandollar’s vibey sounds have appeared on CBS’s Magnum PI and Netflix’s “Outer Banks.”
