Marlie Langer | Student Life Editor
March 20, 2025
Local band makes it big: Sun Room is starting up their Whirlwind tour along the west coast, making their way from Southern California all the way to Washington! After a successful tour around all of America in 2023, they have decided to come back better than ever with the Can’t Explain EP, with the song “Hate it When you Call” being the most streamed song on the new EP. Many local SCHS students love to listen to Sun Room for some summer feels and even attend their concerts.
In an interview with junior Rylee Kervick, she described Sun Room’s crowd as “full of teenage kids who just go crazy and mosh.” With mosh pits left and right and crowd surfers flying above you at any given moment, Sun Room is the perfect show to make teenagers feel like they’re back under the hot summer sun with no more worries. Although Kervick explained that it “can get a little too crazy” due to careless kids, nothing stops her from having a memorable night with music she loves! When asked if she felt more connected to the band and their music due to their guitarist Ashton Minnich previously attending San Clemente High School, she said, “one hundred percent!” She said she “[shares] so many happy memories with [Sun Room’s] music” and thinks it’s amazing to think that Minnich had many of the same experiences she has had as well.
When asked the same question, junior Hanalei Marshall said she thinks “it’s cool to know that [Minnich] was in the same position as us” as students and it’s crazy to think that he is now “touring around the nation” playing music.
Their audience continues to grow as their most popular song Sol Del Sur exceeds over 25 million streams since its release in 2020. Not to mention, the amazing opportunity they had when part of another one of their popular songs Crashed My Bike was played in the hit show “Outer Banks.” Ashton Minnich and Sun Room as a whole continue to be an inspiration to many young bands. To see local kids turn into a successful band gives the people who are still students hope that they too can make it big in the music world.
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