KZSC recently received a copy of Mike Preuss‘s self-made album “Big Sur“. In it’s very homemade CD sleeve was this note: “Dear KZSC, This album was created by Mike Preuss alone in the wilderness of Big Sur, CA during a four month long creative camping trip with one microphone and a van chock full of…
Live Webcast – Thursday at 9:30 on our Second Audio Stream!
By Intro to Radio Instuctor | Published April 22nd, 2010UCSC’s Cafe Revolución will be hosting an Artist Spotlight Evening featuring live acoustic music. You can hear Jeremy Lyon & Thelma Thillman plus Rob Fidel & Friends on Thursday, April 22nd at 9:30 PM. Can’t make it to campus? Check the live webcast on KZSC’s second audio stream, Side Stream. Your all-access entry pass starts…
True Love Cast Out All Evil
By Music Director | Published April 17th, 2010In a brand new album, Roky Erickson and Okkervil River team up to make a gorgeous folk meets bluegrass meets rock album. Erickson’s old man voice is charming as hell, especially by being backed by what’s come to be one of my favorite modern folkish bands. Check out the album’s website here and enjoy!
Top plays!
By Music Director | Published April 14th, 2010Here is an update on our top Electronic, Rock, and the occasional Hip-hop plays! Rank Artist Recording Label 1 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop 2 SPLINTERS Kick Double Negative 3 SHE AND HIM Volume Two Merge 4 COCK AND SWAN Unrecognized Dandelion Gold 5 LOVE IS ALL Two Thousand And Ten Injuries…
Electronic Music: New faces and old salts on the Spring Schedule
By Electronic Music Director | Published April 14th, 2010As spring begins to turn it’s awfully pleasant head (recent rainy and thunderous disruptions notwithstanding), the Electronic Music schedule sees some new bloom as well as older shows taking firmer root. Dance away your case of the Mondays with our newest techno show, Das Boot? Das Haus! coming to you live with some of the…
Jonsi!
By Music Director | Published April 11th, 2010One of the newest icy spring-time treats that we have at KZSC is the first release from the guitarist and vocalist of (probably one of your favorites): Sigur Ros. His name is ___, but um, you can call him Jonsi (pronounced yawwwnnnnn-zeeeee). What started as a solo-acoustic project turned into an exploding cool album very…
We Wanna Be Your Dog
By Michael Bryant | Published April 9th, 2010KZSC wants to be on the end of your leash. This time, we’re the ones praising you and handing out the treats after a nice walkie. To celebrate the release of the expanded anniversary edition of Iggy and the Stooges’ “Raw Power”, our Block of Bliss program host will be spinning an exclusive Stooge Hour,…
Taking Care Of Business
By Michael Bryant | Published March 21st, 2010“I live off Bloody Marys, they give you fire. I get up in the morning and go right to the bar. Yes, I lose my appetite touring”. Thus spoke the Texas Cannonball Freddie King, living to the ripe old age of 42. Fortunately for generations of guitarists to come including Eric Clapton (whom he toured…
White Hinterland’s “Kairos” is to die for.
By Music Director | Published March 18th, 2010Really really really. If you don’t remember le grand White Hinterland, their last album “Phylactery Factory” came out in 2008 and featured a lot of boring piano-based songs sprinkled with a few gigantic gems (“Napoleon at Waterloo” and “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” are so overly gorgeous that it makes the whole album close to…
Finally! A New Hendrix Release
By Michael Bryant | Published March 12th, 2010Although he only completed three studio albums before his passing, Jimi Hendrix was a prolific recorder. After decades of legal entanglements, his estate is releasing new live and studio music from the guitar master and will do so for many years to come. Promised in the near future: the historic sessions done with Stephen Stills….