Tonight, the Rising Tide will play host to three amazing guests. The first of which is a band hailing from Santa Cruz called The Sacred Orchard. This local folk quintet cites freak-folk luminaries like Akron/Family and Bon Iver as influences and has been gaining a quietly growing audience over the past year in the city….
The Album Leaf, Carry Yrself Home & The Sacred Orchard TONIGHT On The Rising Tide!
By The Rising Tide | Published January 7th, 2011
Happy New Year. Now What?
By Michael Bryant | Published December 28th, 2010The party’s hardly over. The Great 88 will continue to rock on in 2011 by featuring a new programming lineup that includes just about every type of music you can imagine…and probably a few that you didn’t even know existed. For those that fear change, relax. Many of your current favorites will still be around…
Wooster and Nick Bane live on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published December 10th, 2010Tonight, on The Rising Tide, our primary musical entertainment is the local band Wooster. What can be said about Wooster that hasn’t already been said? They are a highly acclaimed soulful rock act that has graced local institutions like The Catalyst while also taking their talents both up and down the coast numerous times over…
Birthday Molecule
By Michael Bryant | Published December 4th, 2010Guitarist Randy Rhoads and KZSC’s Station Manager/radio host Jessica Strassman are celebrating their birthdays on Monday. Randy has a previous commitment but you’re invited to listen in. This could be our first live birthday party ever. Jessica’s got the sweet music lined up for all you indie rock fans…she may even sneak in some rocky…
Tonight on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published December 3rd, 2010Every week here at the Rising Tide we are working to provide you the best in local music programming, as well as the focal point of spotlighting a different independent artist live in the studio each and every week. This week we have two such artists. First off, let me introduce you to The Groggs. This…
Player Of The Month
By Michael Bryant | Published December 3rd, 2010DJ Abraham Mekuria originally hails from Ethiopia, where he first heard reggae music. He’s been a fan of the genre ever since and a fixture on KZSC’s Saturday night schedule longer than most of us can remember. Abraham’s favorite part of hosting “Strictly Rockers”? “Spinning the old-school reggae and dub music and talking with listeners”….
sea birds live on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published November 19th, 2010This has been an insanely busy week, but we here at the Rising Tide are working to provide you the best in local music programming, as well as spotlighting a different independent artist live in the studio each and every week. For tonight’s (11/19) Artist Spotlight, we’ll be hosting SLO’s very own Morgan Enos, a…
Player Of The Month
By Michael Bryant | Published November 13th, 2010Oliver’s his name. Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills is his game…or show. Oliver Kopitz has been influenced by music that was made before he was born: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and of course Big Brother & The Holding Company. In fact his show’s title was the original title of their album that became known…
Dean Wareham on The Rising Tide tonight!
By The Rising Tide | Published November 12th, 2010Galaxie 500 were one of the seminal groups in the canon of indie rock. Though the group disbanded in 1991, their songs will be brought back to life tonight at Don Quixote’s as the leader of the group, Dean Wareham, will perform songs off of the group’s three recently re-released full length records (1988′s Today,…
Whirled Beets on Axis Mundi
By World Music Director | Published November 9th, 2010Catch some new and old world beats tonight on Axis Mundi from 8:30- 10:30pm. Check this out: Erkin Koray – Cemalim Erkin Koray is known as the first rock and roll artist of Turkey. During the 60′s and 70′s he was a controversial figure and was even stabbed once for having long hair.