In 1967 Andy Warhol produced the famous yellow banana sticker cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico’s album with “peel slowly and see” printed near the tip. Those who did remove the banana skin found a pink, peeled banana beneath. Since UC Santa Cruz is home to the Banana Slugs and KZSC, we thought this would be a…
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Looking At A Glass Onion…
By Michael Bryant | Published March 7th, 2013DJ Prudence displays her artwork, a painting entitled “Glass Onion”. It’s her re-imagining of the classic Lennon song from The White Album. This one-of-a-king piece will be offered today on The Beatles’ “Here, There & Everywhere” program, along with other Fab Four thank you gifts and of course your requests. Thursday mornings without George, Paul,…
Submit to Anonymous Callers 2nd Edition
By Program Director | Published December 20th, 2012Back by popular demand and just in time for the cold, harsh, lonely winter months, KZSC’s 2nd edition of Anonymous Caller is now accepting submissions. The theme for this issue is graffiti-you’ve-spotted-around-that-looks-cool. That means photos of bathroom graffiti, wall graffiti, sweet doodles and tags. Tags your grandma throws up, really bad tags, really good tags…you get…
Best Album Artwork of 2012
By Design Director | Published November 21st, 2012We’ve all been told not to judge a book by its cover, but what about albums? Imagine walking in to your local record store, pumped to flip through bins and let your eyes scan over the endless possibilities for a new find. How many times has an album jumped out at you, not because of the…
Rockin’ The Rooster
By Michael Bryant | Published November 18th, 2012Celebrating 45 years of waking people up in Santa Cruz, the new KZSC “45″ shirt features two battling bantams on the front. If the front celebrates our past, the back acknowledges the future with our URL in a dark, rooster red. You can sport your own Radio Rooster and be a community radio booster. Find…
Ship of Fools
By Music Librarian | Published October 20th, 2012Ship of Fools may make you think of a Grateful Dead song or a song from The Doors, but the history behind this 3-word phrase is really quite amazing. It first appears in 1494 as a book, Das Narrenschiff, written by Sebastian Brant. Around the same time period painter Hieronymus Bosch depicted the concept on…
Postcards From The Edge
By Michael Bryant | Published July 19th, 2012We asked fans of The Great 88 to send us a postcard while on summer vacation. The first batch included Kama’ole Beach in Maui, “Beer Mondays” from Portland and this gem from someone who claims to have been abducted by aliens while prospecting. If your summer plans call for travel anywhere between Los Gatos and…
Sneak Preview
By Michael Bryant | Published February 16th, 2012Just in time for Spring Training, The Great 88 will be offering a new baseball-style jersey shirt during March. To commemorate our 45th year of broadcasting from UCSC, the shirt features a KZSC 45 RPM single on the front and the number 45 on the back. The new shirt is still in the production stage…
Celebrating 45 Years of Noise…
By Michael Bryant | Published January 9th, 2012Long before we became KZSC, students were broadcasting at UC Santa Cruz. In 1967 these pirates boarded the airwaves as KRUZ from the basement of Stevenson Dorm 2. It didn’t take long for both the FCC and UCSC administrators to realize there was “a problem”, but the broadcast seed was planted. Forty-five years later, KZSC…