Listening to a Scissor Sisters album is like getting into a car with a friend who, while being brash and exciting, might lack a tiny bit of common sense and doesn’t give a damn about it. Finally, after four years, countless scrapped songs, and a near dissolution of the band, we can go on more…
Seahorses EXPO’d
By Music Director | Published June 17th, 2010Wolf Parade just picked the world up and dropped it on my head. An advance copy of their latest Sub Pop release, Expo 86, just landed at our station, and our pet seahorse is still recovering from the impact. We don’t really have a seahorse, I just needed an excuse to embed this video: http://www.youtube.com/v/8lWSawPgQgQ…
Aural Communique from the Beyond
By Music Director | Published June 15th, 2010Sound artists/musicians/ambassadors-from-the-beyond Miguel Frasconi and Denman Maroney met in a Brooklyn recording studio one afternoon to record some improvisational jams. Compiled into the album Gleam, set to release today, each recording presents a terrifyingly fascinating, alien expression of not only otherworldly sounds but also moods and atmospheres beyond the purview of our ordinary Earthbound existence….
Active Child Spooks and Spoils
By Music Director | Published May 31st, 2010Yep that’s a kid wearing a Chewbacca mask. Totally adorable, right?! Well, this is the cover of Active Child’s new Curtis Lane EP (Merok), and its just as creepy and lovable as this photograph implies. Active Child is Pat Grossi, a Philadelphia Boys Choir alumnus, who layers Antony-esque choral harmonies over luscious synths and drum…
Gayngs
By Music Director | Published May 24th, 2010This is incredible. Gayngs comes out with an album called Unrelayted and the jams are unbelievably good. See below video for proof, and whatever you do get your hands on “The Walker.” It deserves some volume. Check out the video for “Cry” (a Godley & Creme cover) below. Yes, it is just like the original….
Kate Nash part two!
By Music Director | Published May 20th, 2010The witty Kate Nash is back with her sophomore release My Best Friend Is You from Geffen Records. Nash continues to charm listeners with her sarcastic, witty lyrics and catchy melodies, reminiscent of the hits “Foundations “and “Merry Happy” from debut release Made of Bricks. As a bonus surprise, My Best Friend Is You has…
The Wind Shift
By Music Director | Published May 18th, 2010Elena Rossman is taking the local music scene by storm. Rossman, a UC Santa Cruz junior and Santa Cruz native, has been playing guitar and writing music since she was 13 years old. She just released her five song EP, The Wind Shift, recorded at Gadgetbox Studios in Santa Cruz. The EP features Rossman’s melodic…
Exiled From the 70′s
By Michael Bryant | Published May 15th, 2010“So after working for eight years I discovered at the end that nobody had ever paid my taxes and I owed a fortune. So then you have to leave the country. So I said fuck it, and left the country” -Mick Jagger April in Paris conjures up images of tranquility; down in the south of…
Big Giveaway For Big Audio Dynamite
By Michael Bryant | Published May 12th, 2010When Mick Jones was booted out of The Clash in the summer of 1983, his old band claimed he’d become a lost sheep. Was it so wrong to fall under the spell of drum machines, synthesizers and sampling? One of the better pop examples of the time was 1985′s “This is Big Audio Dynamite”, now…
Lo-fi Psychedellic Dizzy Bat
By Music Director | Published April 26th, 2010Tim Presley can’t get enough vitamin D. Tim is the sole member of White Fence, whose self-titled debut just knocked us on our asses with its decaying mess of garage-y buzz and hiss and a million megatons of sun sun SUN! We think it sounds like Dr. Dog on a weekend bender on Captain Beefheart’s…