You’re invited to start the New Year in a positive way by helping care for a homeless animal. Santa Cruz County Animal Services is looking for volunteers interested in being Foster Caretakers for needy dogs, cats and other pets. You help provide food, care and socialization for young or sick animals; the animals give back…
Happy Birthday ELVIS!
By Michael Bryant | Published January 6th, 2010On Friday Elvis turns 75, wherever he is. He changed popular music forever and to celebrate KZSC is giving away copies of the new “Elvis 75″ CD, covering The King’s hits from the Sun label era of rockabilly to his “hunka hunka” Burning Love days in Vegas. Tune in to “Test of Time (noon-2 pm)…
New shows start next Monday!
By Music Director | Published January 6th, 2010Friends! KZSC is gonna throw out the old and bring in the new– The new winter program schedule starts on Monday January 11th! Get ready for some exciting new shows, plus some of your old favorites. I have absolutely no knowledge of what new good eats listens are in store for you, so get ready…
Scrambles the Death Dealer’s Top 10 Part 2
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published December 31st, 20095. Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect (Victory) Not much else to say but BTBAM. This album is good, but not ‘Colors’ good, giving it the 4 spot. 4. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate (Metal Blade) I was a little concerned with this album at first, thinking that TBDM’s overall sound…
Scrambles the Death Dealer’s Top 10 Part 1
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published December 29th, 200910. Mastodon – Crack They Skye (Reprise) I won’t even attempt to tell you what this album is about lyrically, but, this album reversed my decision on hating Mastodon, so I felt it deserved a mention on my list, but, it’s also a really good album. 9. Adagio – Archangels In Black (Listenable) Adagio is…
Something to get excited about
By Music Director | Published December 27th, 2009Big news for UC students: Dani, host of Lost Minds and Found Sound, is going to be throwing a gaggle of free shows on campus next quarter. This is supppppper exciting for us and for you. And thanks to our secondary audio stream, we’ll be able to broadcast all of that goodness from us directly…
Leviathan’s Top 10 Part 2
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published December 23rd, 2009Leviathin’s List of 2009′s Most Epic Albums Part 2 5. Mastodon – Crack the Skye (Reprise) There is often much debate over which Mastodon album is the best, which one is the worse, etc. but it cannot be denied that their latest is still nothing short of epic. The album is literally taking you through…
Assemblyman John Laird on KZSC
By Michael Bryant | Published December 20th, 2009As 2009 winds down, California faces some big problems. The economy, education, cuts in services…is there any good news? Find out when Talkabout host John Sandidge asks Assemblyman John Laird. They will take your questions and phone calls live and make some bold predictions for 2010. Talkabout airs Wednesday evenings at 7 on KZSC.
Fall Be Kind
By Music Director | Published December 19th, 2009So, yep they did it. To us. Again. Through the heart? Maybe. Animal Collective released a new collection of songs: their Fall Be Kind EP. As a long-time AC fan, it’s kind of easy for me to slip into really loving everything they do. However, their last album (Merriweather Post Pavillion) sort of threw me…
Leviathin’s Top 10 Part 1
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published December 18th, 2009This was next to impossible to create. So many good albums came out in 2009, so Scrambles the Death Dealer and I contented ourselves to create our list individually so that we could cross cover certain material. That and there is a 11-20 list that covers what we couldn’t cram into ten slots. Join us…